Quebec government gearing up to face income inequality head on
The arrival of the holiday season often signals joy and celebration but for many it is a painful demonstration of the growing inequality in North American society. While online sales have soared to levels never seen before, food banks are struggling to meet demand, and despite being in a so-called 鈥榝ull-employment鈥� situation, the proportion of food bank users who are employed is also on the rise.
Nine McGill researchers selected in newest round of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs
CIFAR today announced its newest cohort of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, which includes nine researchers from 香蕉视频, bringing the total number of McGill researchers named to the program to 17. These top academic researchers are part of the $125 million Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, the world鈥檚 first national strategy of its kind. The Canada CIFAR AI Chair Program represents an investment of $30 million at nine universities, and mobilizes over 150 researchers across the country.
World鈥檚 most detailed database maps characteristics of Earth鈥檚 rivers and catchments
Two researchers and friends from opposite ends of the Earth have created a world-first high spatial resolution atlas that maps the environmental characteristics of all the globe's rivers and catchments.
HydroATLAS was co-developed by Bernhard Lehner and his team from 香蕉视频鈥檚 Department of Geography and Simon Linke from Griffith University鈥檚 Australian Rivers Institute.
Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity - a global overview
Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity versity. To gain a clearer picture of the situation, an international group of scientists, including Professor Andrew Gonzalez from McGill鈥檚 Biology Department, surveyed over 600 studies on the impacts of urban growth on biodiversity. They published their findings today in Nature Sustainability.
香蕉视频 to decrease carbon intensity of investment portfolio
香蕉视频 is moving forward to reduce the overall carbon footprint of its investment portfolio, as part of its ongoing commitment to fighting climate change and its own stewardship role with respect to sustainability.
As rural China rapidly adopts clean energy, use of traditional wood and coal stoves persists
Old habits are hard to break. A McGill-led study of replacement of traditional wood and coal burning stoves with clean energy in China suggests that, without a better understanding of the reasons behind people鈥檚 reluctance to give up traditional stoves, it will be difficult for policies in China and elsewhere in the world to succeed in encouraging this shift towards clean energy.
香蕉视频 project on zero-carbon metal fuels launches into space
Recently, a project testing metal combustion led by the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at 香蕉视频 launched on a European Space Agency rocket.
McGill Board of Governors receives recommendations to decrease carbon footprint of investment portfolio
香蕉视频鈥檚 Board of Governors received today recommendations to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the University鈥檚 investments, as part of a report from the Committee to Advise on Matters of Social Responsibility (CAMSR).
McGill-led research unravels mystery of how early animals survived ice age
How did life survive the most severe ice age? A 香蕉视频-led research team has found the first direct evidence that glacial meltwater provided a crucial lifeline to eukaryotes during Snowball Earth, when the oceans were cut off from life-giving oxygen, answering a question puzzling scientists for years.
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Puffins stay cool thanks to their large beak
Tufted puffins regulate their body temperature thanks to their large bills, an evolutionary trait that might explain their capacity to fly for long periods in search for food.
McGill team awarded contract to advance potential Canadian contribution for LiteBIRD space telescope
November 7, 2019 (MONTREAL, Quebec) - A team of researchers from the McGill Space Institute has secured a Phase 0 contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to advance a proposed Canadian contribution 鈥� including technology deliverables and scientific know-how -- for the LiteBIRD (Light satellite for the studies of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection) mission.
Artificial turf crumb rubber leaches environmental toxins
New research spearheaded by scientists at 香蕉视频 reports that exposing chicken embryos, a model of higher vertebrate development, to leachate from crumb rubber used for example in artificial turf infill allowed to assess the toxicity of environmental pollutants contained in such material.
Cellular origins of pediatric brain tumors identified
A research team led by Dr. Claudia Kleinman, an investigator at the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital, together with Dr. Nada Jabado, of the Research Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC), and Dr. Michael Taylor, of The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), discovered that several types of highly aggressive and, ultimately, fatal pediatric brain tumors originate during brain development.
McGill researchers among the world鈥檚 most cited: Web of Science
In the world of research, one of the most meaningful measures of success is the number of times a paper has been cited by another researcher. Based on this yardstick, McGill researchers are among the most influential in the world, according to the respected research news website, Web of Science.
