By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom
McGill is proud to announce that five researchers have been awarded over $2.4 million in NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants for 2016.
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Published on: 1 Mar 2016
By Chris Chipello, McGill Newsroom
Could a cheap molecule used to disinfect swimming pools provide the key to creating a new form of DNA nanomaterials?
Published on: 1 Mar 2016
By Chris Chipello,听McGill Newsroom
McGill researchers Elena Bennett and Yasser Gidi also honoured by NSERC
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has named 香蕉视频 astrophysicist Vicky Kaspi as this year鈥檚 recipient of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, NSERC鈥檚 highest honour, in recognition of the excellence and influence of her research contributions.
Published on: 16 Feb 2016
By Katherine Gombay,听McGill Newsroom
New technique offers potential to reconnect neurons of people with central nervous system damage
Published on: 28 Jan 2016
By Melody Enguix
When scientists from 香蕉视频 learned that some fish were proliferating in rivers and ponds polluted by oil extraction in Southern Trinidad, it caught their attention. They thought they had found a rare example of a species able to adapt to crude oil pollution.
Published on: 26 Jan 2016
By Cynthia Lee
Some drug regimens, such as those designed to eliminate tumors, are notorious for nasty side effects. Unwanted symptoms are often the result of medicine going where it鈥檚 not needed and harming healthy cells. To minimize this risk, researchers in Quebec have developed nanoparticles that only release a drug when exposed to near-infrared light, which doctors could beam onto a specific site. Their report appears in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Published on: 20 Jan 2016
By Chris Chipello, McGill Newsroom
Study by McGill researchers assesses short-run impacts on households, industries
The cost burden of Quebec鈥檚 carbon-pricing policy, is likely to be modest across income groups and industries, according to a 香蕉视频 research team.
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Published on: 20 Jan 2016
By Katherine Gombay,听McGill Newsroom
Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars
Published on: 19 Jan 2016
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Published on: 13 Jan 2016
Gold nanoparticles have unusual optical, electronic and chemical properties, which scientists are seeking to put to use in a range of new technologies, from nanoelectronics to cancer treatments.
Published on: 7 Jan 2016
By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom
Arctic peoples inherently able to adapt given changes to various non-climatic factors
Published on: 6 Jan 2016
Drought and extreme heat events slashed cereal harvests in recent decades by 9% to 10% on average in affected countries 鈥� and the impact of these weather disasters was greatest in the developed nations of North America, Europe and Australasia, according to a new study led by researchers from 香蕉视频 and the University of British Columbia.
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Published on: 6 Jan 2016
Monkeys, Myths, and Molecules, Separating fact from fiction, and the science of everyday life
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Published on: 4 Jan 2016
On behalf of the Faculty of Science and on the occasion of Science Convocation ceremonies (November 10, 2015), Dean of Science Bruce Lennox offers congratulations to all graduating students, from B.Sc. to Ph.D., and also to the following prizewinners.
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Published on: 10 Nov 2015
听Gravitational effects, variations in Earth structure could damp rise in global sea levels
Published on: 10 Nov 2015
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