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Getting enough sleep can be a real challenge for shift workers affecting their overall health. But what role does being an early bird or night owl play in getting good rest? Researchers from Թ find a link between chronotype and amount of sleep shift workers can get with their irregular schedules.

Classified as: shift work, shift workers, chronotype, early bird, night owl, sleep, behaviour, police officers, Diane B. Boivin, Laura Kervezee
Published on: 1 Jun 2021

Scientists’ ability to estimate eruption risks is largely reliant on knowing where pools of magma are stored, deep in the Earth’s crust. But what happens if the magma can’t be spotted?

Classified as: Թ News, mcgill research, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, magma, eruption, Volcanic eruptions, Shane Rooyakkers, John Stix
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Published on: 31 May 2021

Using a Fitbit and a spy mic, scientists have discovered new insight into the behaviour of the elusive Canada lynx. A by researchers from Թ, University of Alberta, and Trent University provides a first look at how miniaturized technology can open the door to remote wildlife monitoring.

Classified as: Canada lynx, sounds, behaviour, ecology, Sustainability, Emily Studd, Allyson Menzies, Murray Humphries
Published on: 31 May 2021

Researchers at Թ have demonstrated a technique that could enable the production of robust, high-performance membranes to harness an abundant source of renewable energy.

Blue energy, also known as osmotic energy, capitalizes on the energy naturally released when two solutions of different salinities mix – conditions that occur in countless locations around the world where fresh and salt water meet.

Classified as: Research News, Department of physics, Faculty of Science, Թ Sustainability Systems Initiative, Sustainability, Khadija Yazda, energy efficiency, renewable energy, office of sustainability
Published on: 26 May 2021

Researchers at Թ have gained new insight into the workings of perovskites, a semiconductor material that shows great promise for making high-efficiency, low-cost solar cells and a range of other optical and electronic devices.

Published on: 26 May 2021

Թ researchers to team up with Belgian and UdeM colleagues to explore ethical and legal issues associated with data sharing via mobile apps

Modern life, it seems, is marked by an unprecedented propensity to dramatic and rapid change. This tendency is perhaps best symbolized by the ubiquitous smartphone. What seemed like just some cool technology a few years ago has quickly become an absolutely essential tool for everyday living. Worldwide, almost 4 billion people have at least one such device. In Canada, the rate of smartphone ownership is 88%, as of 2018.

Classified as: healthcare, Smartphone
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Published on: 26 May 2021

Electrification of everything will dramatically increase demand for energy storage and conversion, from advanced batteries to green hydrogen and carbon-free fuels, highlighting need for accelerated innovation efforts

The climate crisis continues to attract global attention, and rightfully so, as dramatic incidents worldwide repeatedly underscore the growing severity of the situation. Governments are increasingly responsive to the issue, enacting legislations to eventually reduce the rate of global temperature rise.

Classified as: clean energy, Թ Sustainability Systems Initiative, Li-ion batteries
Published on: 25 May 2021

Plant diseases don’t stop at national borders and miles of oceans don’t prevent their spread, either. That’s why plant disease surveillance, improved detection systems, and global predictive disease modeling are necessary to mitigate future disease outbreaks and protect the global food supply, according to a team of researchers in a new commentary published in.

Classified as: Plants, crops, pandemics, plant diseases, disease, outbreaks, food security, food supply, Sustainability, Graham MacDonald
Published on: 21 May 2021

For decades scientists have been puzzled by the formation of rare hyper-enriched gold deposits in places like Ballarat in Australia, Serra Palada in Brazil, and Red Lake in Ontario. While such deposits typically form over tens to hundreds of thousands of years, these “ultrahigh-grade” deposits can form in years, month, or even days. So how do they form so quickly?

Classified as: gold, deposits, Brucejack Mine, Sustainability, Duncan McLeish, Anthony Williams-Jones
Published on: 21 May 2021

Tropical coral reefs are the most biodiverse underwater ecosystem, providing a home to more than a quarter of all marine species. No strangers to environmental stressors and the on-going impacts of climate change, the survival of corals has increasingly been under threat in recent years. A collective of researchers, including from Թ, have analyzed how environmental factors influence the growth and health of corals and found that more species of corals are living in the mangrove forests than in nearby shallow reefs.

Classified as: Research News, Department of Biology, Heather Stewart, Lauren Chapman, mangroves, coral reefs, marine ecosystem, climate change, Sustainability
Published on: 18 May 2021

Climate change is exacerbating problems like habitat loss and temperatures swings that have already pushed many animal species to the brink. But can scientists predict which animals will be able to adapt and survive? Using genome sequencing, show that some fish, like the threespine stickleback, can adapt very rapidly to extreme seasonal changes. Their findings could help scientists forecast the evolutionary future of these populations.

Classified as: climate change, Sustainability, threespine stickleback, genome sequencing, natural selection, Darwin, Rowan Barrett, Alan Garcia-Elfring
Published on: 13 May 2021

Visible minorities, health-care workers and young people in Quebec have been at higher risk of experiencing COVID-19-related discrimination and more likely to suffer from poor mental health in the past year, according to a collective of researchers from Թ, Concordia University and the University of Ottawa.

The researchers set out to study how factors such as people’s socioeconomic and minority status, discrimination, stigmatization and mental health impact their understanding and adoption of public health measures to combat the coronavirus.

Classified as: Research News, cécile rousseau, Department of Psychiatry, Transcultural Psychiatry, COVIVRE, mental health
Published on: 12 May 2021

Bacteria that move around live on the edge. All the time. Their success, be it in finding nutrients, fending off predators or multiplying depends on how efficiently they navigate through their confining microscopic habitats. Whether these habitats are in animal or plant tissues, in waste, or in other materials.

Classified as: Faculty of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Dan Nicolau, bacteria, biocomputing
Published on: 11 May 2021

To make sense of complex environments, brain waves constantly adapt, compensating for drastically different sound and vision processing speeds

Every high-school physics student learns that sound and light travel at very different speeds. If the brain did not account for this difference, it would be much harder for us to tell where sounds came from, and how they are related to what we see.

Classified as: Sylvain Baillet, MEG, magnetoencephalography, autism, schizophrenia, Neuro
Published on: 11 May 2021

Image caption: These killer whales may appear healthy, but a new study has found extremely high levels of PCB contamination in some of the whales. There was a 300-fold difference between the levels of PCBs among the most contaminated orcas compared to the least contaminated ones. The variation was mainly due to their eating habits. CREDIT: Filipa Samarra - Icelandic Orca Project

Classified as: Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Melissa McKinney, canada research chair, Department of Natural Resource Sciences
Published on: 6 May 2021

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