Since the onset of the worldwide pandemic, face masks have been widely adopted to control the spread of COVID-19. While masks are critical for mitigating disease contagion, they hide parts of our faces which are used for nonverbal communication to express our emotions and intentions.
Published on: 21 Feb 2022
In many U.S. states, children can legally marry at an earlier age than they can consent to sex, leading to situations where sex between spouses may be a criminal act. Some states exempt sex between married spouses from their definition of statutory rape, which may create perverse incentives for child marriage, according to researchers from 香蕉视频.
Their findings, published in the , show that child marriages violated statutory rape laws in 14 states.
Published on: 17 Feb 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has uneven impacts across cities and provinces, with some regions struggling more than others. A new study shows hotspots of COVID-19 infections across Canadian cities are linked to occupation, income, housing, and markers for structural racism.
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Published on: 14 Feb 2022
A study by researchers at 香蕉视频 is shedding new light on the importance of the perception of emotion in romantic relationships. The all-McGill team found that, regardless of how an individual is truly feeling, knowing their partner sees their emotions as a typical reaction to a given situation may lead to better relations within a couple 鈭� especially in situations of conflict.
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Published on: 13 Feb 2022
After interviewing over 300 regular pornography viewers in a study published in Archives of Sexual Behaviour, Professor Eran Shor found that while most viewers were not interested in watching sexual aggression in pornography, women were more likely than men to say that they enjoyed aggression in the pornography they watch, including harder forms, such as choking.
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Published on: 10 Feb 2022
Anger is a key emotion in understanding public opinion towards crime and punishment: it is frequently mobilized in public discourse and is elicited by specific incidents. But what role do emotions play in questions of punishment for crime?
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Published on: 7 Feb 2022
When did the Earth reach oxygen levels sufficient to support animal life? Researchers from 香蕉视频 have discovered that a rise in oxygen levels occurred in step with the evolution and expansion of complex, eukaryotic ecosystems. Their findings represent the strongest evidence to date that extremely low oxygen levels exerted an important limitation on evolution for billions of years.
Published on: 31 Jan 2022
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MONTREAL January 31, 2022 鈥� A new initiative by 香蕉视频鈥檚 Dementia Education Program is among the 15 projects that will receive funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada to raise awareness of dementia and promote dementia-inclusive communities, the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos today.
Published on: 31 Jan 2022
Twenty years鈥� worth of surveys suggest that nearly one in ten sexually active men in 35 countries in sub-Saharan Africa have been clients of sex workers. These men are about 50 percent more likely to be living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), according to a team of international researchers, including Professor Mathieu Maheu-Giroux and Caroline Hodgins of 香蕉视频.
Published on: 25 Jan 2022
Wild populations must continuously adapt to environmental changes or risk extinction. For more than fifty years, scientists have described instances of 鈥渞apid evolution鈥� in specific populations as their traits (phenotypes) change in response to varying stressors. For example, Spanish clover has developed a tolerance for copper from the mine tailings in which it grows, and the horn size of Alberta bighorn sheep has decreased due to trophy hunting.
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Published on: 18 Jan 2022
In addition to old age and certain underlying diseases, genetics can influence whether we become severely affected or only suffer mild illness from COVID-19. Previous studies on mainly people of European ancestry have found that individuals carrying a particular segment of DNA have a 20 percent lower risk of developing a critical COVID-19 infection. This DNA segment encodes genes in the immune system and is inherited from Neanderthals in about half of all people outside Africa.
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Published on: 14 Jan 2022
XO-3b, a hot Jupiter on an eccentric orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)
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Published on: 13 Jan 2022
Plastics, textiles, and electronics have revolutionized our modern world, but their massive production has led to the accumulation of non-biodegradable and toxic wastes. This is a problem McGill researcher No茅mie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne hopes to have a hand in solving. Today she was named a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Biologically-Derived Materials, in recognition of the importance of her research for Canada鈥檚 future.
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Published on: 12 Jan 2022
Professor Suzanne Fortier, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of 香蕉视频, announced today that she will be stepping down from her second term on August 31, 2022.
鈥淓ntering the University鈥檚 third century provides a unique opportunity for renewal and for setting new directions and ambitious goals,鈥� said Principal Fortier. 鈥淎fter close to a decade in this role, I believe it is an ideal time to pass the baton to a new leader who will shape the future of our University.鈥�
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Published on: 7 Jan 2022
香蕉视频 scientists have developed a new system for sharing the enormous amount of data being generated by the CHIME radio telescope in its search for fast radio bursts (FRBs), the puzzling extragalactic phenomenon that is one of the hottest topics in modern-day astronomy.
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Published on: 4 Jan 2022
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