Research published this week in Science Advances shows that it may be possible to create rocket fuel that is much cleaner and safer than the hypergolic fuels that are commonly used today. And still just as effective. The new fuels use simple chemical 鈥渢riggers鈥� to unlock the energy of one of the hottest new materials, a class of porous solids known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. MOFs are made up of clusters of metal ions and an organic molecule called a linker.
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Published on: 5 Apr 2019
ComSciConCAN is Canada鈥檚 first national science communication workshop for current or recently-graduated graduate students. This unique professional development program aims to help the next generation of leaders in STEM fields develop the skills needed to communicate their research and ideas to their peers, experts in other fields, policy makers, and the general public.
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Published on: 1 Apr 2019
Some diseases which are fatal in one species can cause only mild discomfort in another鈥攂ut it鈥檚 hard for scientists to predict how lethal a disease will be if it leaps across species.
However, a new paper published this week in PNAS indicates that the evolutionary relationship between infected hosts can predict the impact of diseases.
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Published on: 28 Mar 2019
by Daniel McCabe
Congratulations to McGill graduate聽Yoshua Bengio, BEng鈥�86, MSc鈥�88, PhD鈥�91, on being named a co-recipient of the 2018聽A.M. Turing Award. Frequently referred to as the 鈥淣obel Prize of Computing,鈥� the Turing Award, presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), recognizes individuals for major contributions of lasting importance to computing.聽
Published on: 27 Mar 2019
Rising global maritime traffic could lead to sharp increases in invasive species around the world over the next 30 years, according to a new study by 香蕉视频 researchers.
The findings, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, suggest that shipping growth will far outweigh climate change in the spread of non-indigenous pests to new environments in coming decades.
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Published on: 18 Mar 2019
New research from 香蕉视频 reveals an overlooked impact that the widely used herbicide glyphosate may be having on the environment.
First commercialized by Monsanto under the name Roundup, glyphosate has come under scrutiny in the past, mostly in relation to its potential toxicity. This new research, published recently in the Ecological Society of America鈥檚 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, focuses not on direct health risks associated with the herbicide, but on its contribution to environmental phosphorus levels, an issue that has yet to receive much attention.
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Published on: 14 Mar 2019
Methanol鈥攁 colourless liquid that can be made from agricultural waste鈥攈as long been touted as a green alternative to fossil fuels. But it鈥檚 toxic and only has half the energy as the same volume of gasoline. Now, Chao-Jun Li and colleagues report they鈥檝e created a potentially cheap way to use sunlight to convert methanol to ethanol, a more popular alternative fuel that鈥檚 less harmful and carries more energy.
Published on: 21 Feb 2019
Two McGill chemistry professors, Theo van de Ven and Jean-Philip Lumb, have developed a new way to make textiles from cellulose, the basic building block of plants,聽in a breakthrough that has the potential to revitalize Canada鈥檚 forestry industry.
Published on: 11 Feb 2019
The weather these days is wild and will be wilder still within a century. In part, because the water from melting ice sheets off Greenland and in the Antarctic will cause extreme weather and unpredictable temperatures around the globe. A study published today in Nature is the first to simulate the effects, under current climate policies, that the two melting ice sheets will have on ocean temperatures and circulation patterns as well as on air temperatures by the year 2100.
Consequences for ocean circulation and water and air temperatures
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Published on: 6 Feb 2019
Mila 鈥� Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence officially inaugurated its new premises at the O Mile-Ex complex this week, in the presence of the Minister of Economy and Innovation for the government of Quebec, Pierre Fitzgibbon, and more than 200 partners and players in the Quebec artificial intelligence ecosystem.
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Published on: 30 Jan 2019
Imagine a waterproof computer. It鈥檚 not going to happen tomorrow, but it may no longer be a pipedream since a McGill-led international research team has shown for the first time that it is possible to form strong, stable attractions between some of the heavier elements in the periodic table.
Published on: 22 Jan 2019
Scientists increasingly believe that one of the driving forces in chronic pain鈥攖he number one health problem in both prevalence and burden鈥攁ppears to be the memory of earlier pain. Research published today in Current Biology suggests that there may be variations, based on sex, in the way that pain is remembered in both mice and humans.
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Published on: 10 Jan 2019
A Canadian-led team of scientists has found the second repeating fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded. FRBs are short bursts of radio waves coming from far outside our Milky Way galaxy. Scientists believe FRBs emanate from powerful astrophysical phenomena billions of light years away.
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Published on: 9 Jan 2019
Professor is the recipient of the prestigious for his exceptional contributions to Green Chemistry research in Canada. He is the third McGill professor to win the Steacie Prize, and the first ever McGill professor to win it for chemistry. The two previous winners from McGill are Vicky Kaspi, Physics and Astronomy (2006) and Phil Gold, Medicine (1973).
Published on: 14 Dec 2018
The Macdonald-Stewart Library Building, which houses the Schulich Library of Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, and Engineering, needs significant structural repairs and major internal upgrades. This work includes stabilization of the stone structure, foundation waterproofing, window replacement, washroom expansion and the installation of a new heating, ventilation and air conditioning system (HVAC).
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Published on: 11 Dec 2018
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