Thanks to the pandemic, we know just how quickly food can disappear from supermarket shelves. But it is hard to gauge the vulnerability of our food production system as a whole to abrupt changes, such as those that could be caused by extreme events such as a nuclear war or massive volcanic eruptions.
Published on: 4 Dec 2020
The winner of the 2020 Cundill History Prize is Camilla Townsend, Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, for Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs (Oxford University Press USA). The announcement was made during the virtual Winner Ceremony of the leading international history prize, administered by 香蕉视频. Prof. Townsend receives US$75,000 鈥� the largest reward for a work of non-fiction in English.
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Published on: 3 Dec 2020
To meet the most ambitious 1.5潞 C climate goal requires a rapid phaseout of fossil fuels and mass use of renewables. However, new international research by 香蕉视频 and the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Aut貌noma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) warns that green energy projects can be as socially and environmentally conflictive as fossil fuel projects.
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Published on: 3 Dec 2020
What makes the elderly and people with underlying conditions more vulnerable to COVID-19? According to a new led by 香蕉视频 researchers, clues can be found in the proteins involved in initiating infection, as the virus binds to host cells of different animals. Greater cellular oxidation with aging and sickness may explain why seniors and people with chronic illness get infected more often and more severely.
Published on: 3 Dec 2020
Large multi-site study accurately predicts damage to grey matter by disease
An international study has found a link between the brain鈥檚 network connections and grey matter atrophy caused by certain types of epilepsy, a major step forward in our understanding of the disease.
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Published on: 2 Dec 2020
New parents often expect their baby to start sleeping through the night around the time they reach six months of age. But according to a new led by Professor聽Marie-H茅l猫ne Pennestri, parents should view sleep consolidation as a process, instead of a milestone to be achieved at a specific age. Tracking 44 infants over a period of two weeks, she found that sleeping patterns vary greatly 鈥� not only for different babies, but also night to night for the same baby.
Published on: 2 Dec 2020
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Published on: 27 Nov 2020
Over the past 40,000 years, ice sheets thousands of kilometres apart have influenced one another through sea level changes, according to research published today in . New modelling of ice sheet changes during the most recent glacial cycle by a McGill-led team offers a clearer idea of the mechanisms that drive change than had previously existed and explains newly available geological records.
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Published on: 25 Nov 2020
Vertebrate populations - from birds and fish to antelope - are not, in general, declining. Despite what has previously been thought and said.
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Published on: 18 Nov 2020
By Meaghan Thurston (Office of Research and Innovation)
Published on: 18 Nov 2020
香蕉视频 has chosen a new name that will take its 尘别苍鈥檚 varsity teams into the University鈥檚 third century. The name 鈥� chosen with the aim of paying homage to Athletics and Recreation鈥檚 tradition and history while simultaneously uniting our community 鈥� is the McGill Redbirds.
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Published on: 17 Nov 2020
By Shawn Hayward
Six 香蕉视频 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences researchers 鈥� Boris Bernhardt, Mark Brandon, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Jean-Francois Poulin, Jo Anne Stratton and Masha Prager-Khoutorsky 鈥� have received grants to support their work in the early-career stage, after being chosen from 150 talented applicants.
Brain Canada鈥檚 Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Program, anchored by a $5M gift from the Azrieli Foundation, enables paradigm-changing research of the brain to improve the lives of all Canadians.
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Published on: 12 Nov 2020
Brain Canada program supports paradigm-shifting neuroscience that improves the lives of Canadians
Four researchers at The Neuro 鈥� Boris Bernhardt, Yasser Iturria-Medina, Jean-Francois Poulin, and Jo Anne Stratton 鈥� have received grants to support their work in the early-career stage, after being chosen from 150 talented applicants.
Brain Canada鈥檚 Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Program, anchored by a $5M gift from the Azrieli Foundation, enables paradigm-changing research of the brain to improve the lives of all Canadians.
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Published on: 9 Nov 2020
Five projects led by 香蕉视频 researchers are included among the 79 receiving a total of $28 million in research infrastructure support through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Exceptional Opportunities Fund. The announcement was made today by the Honourable Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry during a news conference this morning.
Published on: 6 Nov 2020
Earlier today, a Quebec based consortium of research institutes (G茅nome Qu茅bec, Oncopole and IVADO) announced the winners of their first-ever 鈥淥mics Data Against Cancer鈥� competition, and McGill research teams were dominant. In fact, of the five selected teams no less than four of them included professors from McGill.
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Published on: 5 Nov 2020
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