During the 20th century, urban transportation planning in North America was mainly concerned with easing traffic congestion, improving safety and saving time for motorists. These days, most cities鈥� transportation plans evoke a more complex blend of environmental, economic, and social-equity goals 鈥� all aimed at promoting 鈥渟ustainability.鈥� Yet, many fail to include meaningful measurements of social-equity objectives, such as helping disadvantaged neighborhoods access essential services, according to researchers at 香蕉视频.
Published on: 7 Jan 2015
When dams are built they have an impact not only on the flow of water in the river, but also on the people who live downstream and on the surrounding ecosystems. By placing data from close to 6,500 existing large dams on a highly precise map of the world鈥檚 rivers, an international team led by 香蕉视频 researchers has created a new method to estimate the global impacts of dams on river flow and fragmentation.
Published on: 6 Jan 2015
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Published on: 30 Dec 2014
To address these questions, Dr. Fabian Leendertz of the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin assembled a large international interdisciplinary team consisting of virologists, veterinarians, ecologists, epidemiologists and an anthropologist. One member was Jan Gogarten, a doctoral student in Biology and Vanier graduate scholar at McGill.聽
We spoke with Gogarten about the resulting study, published this week in the journal EMBO Molecular Medicine, and his role in it.
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Published on: 30 Dec 2014
The distinctive 鈥渇ecal prints鈥� of microbes potentially provide a record of how Earth and life have co-evolved over the past 3.5 billion years as the planet鈥檚 temperature, oxygen levels, and greenhouse gases have changed. But, despite more than 60 years of study, it has proved difficult, until now, to 鈥渞ead鈥� much of the information contained in this record. Research from 香蕉视频 and Israel鈥檚 Weizmann Institute of Science, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), sheds light on the mysterious digestive processes of microbes, opening the way towards a better understanding of how life and the planet have changed over time.
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Published on: 23 Dec 2014
Congratulations to Professor Victoria Kaspi in the Department of Physics! She has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society for advancing our understanding of the astrophysics of neutron stars by elucidating the relationship between anomalous X-ray pulsars, soft gamma-ray repeaters, and magnetars.
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Published on: 16 Dec 2014
Congratulations to Dr. Charles Gale, James McGill Professor in the Department of Physics, for winning a Humboldt Research Award!
Valued at 60,000 EUR, this award is granted by Germany's Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung/Foundation in recognition of a researcher's entire achievements to date. The award recognizes scholars whose fundamental discoveries, new theories, or insights have had a significant impact on their own discipline and who are expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements in the future.
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Published on: 16 Dec 2014
Got an itch for knowledge? The Canal Savoir network will be broadcasting features from several McGill outreach and public lecture series, including聽the 2014 Lorne Trottier Public Science Symposium: Are we alone? Searching for life out there and Mini-Science 2014: The Science of Music. Refer to those schedules to find out when to tune in, and to find out more about each episode.
Published on: 9 Dec 2014
Learning from others and innovation have undoubtedly helped advance civilization. But these behaviours can carry costs as well as benefits. And a new study by an international team of evolutionary biologists sheds light on how one particular cost 鈥� increased exposure to parasites 鈥� may affect cultural evolution in non-human primates.
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Published on: 3 Dec 2014
A growing number of academic researchers are mining social media data to learn about both online and offline human behaviour. In recent years, studies have claimed the ability to predict everything from summer blockbusters to fluctuations in the stock market.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2014
Weather, which changes day-to-day due to constant fluctuations in the atmosphere, and climate, which varies over decades, are familiar. More recently, a third regime, called 鈥渕acroweather,鈥� has been used to describe the relatively stable regime between weather and climate.
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Published on: 13 Nov 2014
聽Bobbing your head, tapping your heel, or clapping along with the music is a natural response for most people, but what about those who can鈥檛 keep a beat?
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Published on: 10 Nov 2014
Two renowned 香蕉视频 researchers are among the 14 winners of the 2014 Prix du Qu茅bec. Professor Michael Meaney, acclaimed for his achievements in the biology of child development, will be awarded the Wilder-Penfield prize. Professor Paul Lasko, a celebrated developmental biologist, will receive the Armand-Frappier award. The Prix du Qu茅bec is considered the most prestigious award attributed by the Government of Qu茅bec in cultural and scientific fields.
Published on: 4 Nov 2014
Researchers at 香蕉视频 have succeeded in simultaneously observing the reorganizations of atomic positions and electron distribution during the transformation of the 鈥渟mart material鈥� vanadium dioxide (VO2) from a semiconductor into a metal 鈥� in a time frame a trillion times faster than the blink of an eye.
Published on: 27 Oct 2014
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