For decades, scientists have wrestled with rival theories to explain how interactions between species, like competition, influence biodiversity. Tracking microbial life across the planet, researchers from 香蕉视频 show that biodiversity does in fact foster further diversity in microbiomes that are initially less diverse. However, diversity rates plateau with increased competition for survival and space in more diverse microbiomes.
Published on: 3 Feb 2021
Researchers from 香蕉视频 have discovered, for the first time, one of the possible mechanisms that contributes to the ability of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to increase social interaction. The findings, which could help unlock potential therapeutic applications in treating certain psychiatric diseases, including anxiety and alcohol use disorders, are published in the journal PNAS.
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Published on: 26 Jan 2021
Bubbles of methane gas in water around an unplugged oil/gas well in Pennsylvania. CREDIT: Mary Kang
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Published on: 20 Jan 2021
By Meaghan Thurston
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) program provides long-term, dedicated research funding to support and train the next generation of AI leaders.
Consider a question: 鈥淗ow many students took each calculus class?鈥� A seemingly simple inquiry that soon turns complicated if you are trying to teach an artificial neural network to produce a database query based on the question 鈥� something that could be usefully applied in an academic setting.
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Published on: 19 Jan 2021
Artist鈥檚 interpretation of Labradormantis guilbaulti in liftoff among the leaves of a sycamore tree, Labrador, around 100 million years ago. The interpretation is based on fossils (for the wings) and living and extinct relatives (for the rest of the body). Fossilized sycamore leaves have been found in the same deposits as the mantis wings and show that this new insect species would have lived in a lush warm temperate forest during the Cretaceous. CREDIT: A. Demers-Potvin
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Published on: 19 Jan 2021
The core mass of the giant exoplanet WASP-107b is much lower than what was thought necessary to build up the immense gas envelope surrounding giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, according to a Canadian-led team of astronomers, including 香蕉视频 Professor Eve Lee.
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Published on: 18 Jan 2021
Can combining deep learning (DL)鈥� a subfield of artificial intelligence鈥� with social network analysis (SNA), make social media contributions about extreme weather events a useful tool for crisis managers, first responders and government scientists? An interdisciplinary team of McGill researchers has brought these tools to the forefront in an effort to understand and manage extreme weather events.
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Published on: 18 Jan 2021
Bell Let's Talk,聽香蕉视频, The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital) and the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital are pleased to announce the official launch of the聽听(惭惭贬搁颁).
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Published on: 18 Jan 2021
Muscle structure and body size predict the athletic performance of Olympic athletes, such as sprinters. The same, it appears, is true of wild seabirds that can commute hundreds of kilometres a day to find food, according to a recent paper by scientists from McGill and Colgate universities published in the .
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Published on: 15 Jan 2021
香蕉视频 and Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. announce their partnership in the launch of a retail innovation lab at the Bensadoun School of Retail Management鈥攁 live testing ground for innovative and frictionless technologies that address the retail sector鈥檚 challenges of the future.
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Published on: 14 Jan 2021
Warming ocean waters could reduce the ability of fish, especially large ones, to extract the oxygen they need from their environment. Animals require oxygen to generate energy for movement, growth and reproduction.
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Published on: 13 Jan 2021
Mothers with multiple children report more fragmented sleep than mothers of a single child, but the number of children in a family doesn't seem to affect the quality of sleep for fathers, according to a from 香蕉视频.
Published on: 12 Jan 2021
Canada is at the forefront of global efforts to end child marriage abroad. Yet this practice remains legal and persists across the country. In Canada, more than 3,600 marriage certificates were issued to children, usually girls, under the age of 18 between 2000 and 2018, according to a from researchers at 香蕉视频. In recent years, an increasing number of child marriages have been common-law unions.
Published on: 8 Jan 2021
To stop biodiversity loss, Canada recently committed to protecting 30% of its land and sea by 2030. But making conservation decisions about where to locate new protected areas is complicated. It depends on data both about biodiversity and about a range of benefits (e.g. freshwater, climate regulation, recreation) that people get from nature. Surprisingly, despite the size of the country, new mapping suggests that less than 1% of Canada鈥檚 land (0.6% of total area or approximately 56,000 km2) is a hotspot, providing all these benefits in one place.
Published on: 5 Jan 2021
Joint research program between the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research focuses on advancing technologies in epigenomics, deepening McGill鈥檚 relationship with Japan鈥檚 RIKEN institute.
By Junji Nishihata
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Published on: 21 Dec 2020
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