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
New data from a Canadian-led team of astronomers, including researchers from the McGill and 香蕉视频 strongly suggest that magnetars - a type of neutron star believed to have an extremely powerful magnetic field - could be the source of some fast radio bursts (FRBs). Though much research has been done to explain the mysterious phenomenon, their source has thus far remained elusive and the subject of some debate.
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Published on: 4 Nov 2020
Psychology researchers at 香蕉视频 have used network science 鈥� a mathematical technique for revealing connections and patterns 鈥� to gain novel insights into Montrealers鈥� experience of using French and English.
The unique approach has brought to light subtle differences as to which social settings Montreal bilinguals discuss certain topics and whether they use French, English or both languages to discuss those topics.
Published on: 8 Oct 2020
Four McGill researchers are聽among the sixteen eminent Canadian scientists, scholars and researchers that have been by the聽Royal Society of Canada
Read their stories in聽The聽McGill Reporter:
Alfonso Mucci
Willet G. Miller Medal / M茅daille Willet G. Miller
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Published on: 15 Sep 2020
Researchers from 香蕉视频 have revealed the steps by which two very distinct organisms 鈥� bacteria and carpenter ants 鈥� have come to depend on one another for survival to become a single complex life form. The study, published today in , shows that the two species have collaborated to radically alter the development of the ant embryo to allow this integration to happen. Understanding how such grand unifications originate and evolve is a major puzzle for biologists.
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Published on: 2 Sep 2020
How do people coordinate their actions with the sounds they hear? This basic ability, which allows people to cross the street safely while hearing oncoming traffic, dance to new music or perform team events such as rowing, has puzzled cognitive neuroscientists for years. A new study led by researchers at 香蕉视频 is shining a light on how auditory perception and motor processes work together.
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Published on: 1 Sep 2020
Starting an undergraduate program is a big transition, accompanied by many uncertainties. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has added to the number of unknowns facing incoming students, through the switch from on-campus to online courses.
Recently, the聽Office of Science Education (OSE)聽and聽Teaching and Learning Services (TLS)聽hosted two panels to support U0 and U1 students admitted to the Faculties of Science and Engineering, as they prepare for their first year at McGill.
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Published on: 1 Sep 2020
Scientists at 香蕉视频 have developed a solvent-free method for making oligonucleotides, short strands of DNA of growing significance in research and the pharmaceutical industry.
Published on: 24 Aug 2020
A McGill research team has developed a new technique to detect nano-sized imperfections in materials. They believe this discovery will lead to improvements in the optical detectors used in a wide range of technologies, from cell phones to cameras and fiber optics, as well as in solar cells.
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Published on: 5 Aug 2020
For human beings, the ability to generalize 鈥� to extract broad principles from our experiences of the world and use these principles to help us make decisions in new situations 鈥� is an essential skill for navigating everyday life. But for those working in the field of artificial intelligence, getting machines to generalize in this way has been a notoriously difficult challenge.
Published on: 15 Jul 2020
On May 25, 2020, Teaching and Learning Services (TLS) and the Office of Science Education (OSE) at 香蕉视频 held a panel discussion on remote teaching for instructors in the Faculty of Science.
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Published on: 14 Jul 2020
Imagine tracking your feelings during daily interactions with your romantic partner. What would you learn? That鈥檚 what approximately 100 heterosexual couples in Montreal did each day for 3 weeks during a study run by researchers from 香蕉视频. They were interested in whether a fairly common genetic variant in the opioid system, seen in about a quarter of the population, was associated with feelings of insecurity in romantic relationships.
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Published on: 6 Jul 2020
香蕉视频 researchers are using cutting-edge computer simulations and analytical techniques to identify and validate promising compounds in the search for a treatment for COVID-19.
Nicolas Moitessier, a professor in the Department of Chemistry, is using computer simulation software that he has developed over the past 15 years to predict the properties of molecules that have yet to be made.
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Published on: 23 Jun 2020
In a step forward for聽the field of quantum mechanics, 香蕉视频 researchers have achieved a breakthrough in sensitive measurements of the wave-like properties of electrons.
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Published on: 22 Jun 2020
A Canadian-led team of astronomers, including researchers from 香蕉视频, has discovered that a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) originating from a nearby galaxy pulses at regular intervals.
Researchers within the (CHIME) Fast Radio Burst Collaboration used the CHIME telescope in British Columbia to show that the repeating radio source known as FRB 180916.J0158+65 鈥� first discovered in 2018 by the same group - pulsates apparently every 16.35 days.
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Published on: 17 Jun 2020
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