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New research from Թ and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation.

Classified as: urban sprawl, Christopher Barrington-Leigh, street networks, Sustainability
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Published on: 14 Jan 2020

Using a new microscopic "fishing" technique, scientists from the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM), Université de Montréal and Թ have successfully snagged thousands of proteins that play a key role in the formation of the cell skeletons or cytoskeletons. Cell skeletons, whose primary function is to give the cells their shapes, are also involved in things like muscle contraction. They are made up of an interlocking network of protein filaments that connect the cell nucleus to the cell membrane.

Classified as: Research, cell biology, molecular medicine, proteins
Published on: 9 Jan 2020

Research from Թ topped ’s annual list of the 10 most important scientific breakthroughs. This year, Günther Grill, Bernhard Lehner, Tomislav Friščić, Heidi M. McBride, Samantha Gruenheid, and Ehab Abouheif were recognized for their trailblazing work, by a jury of researchers and journalists reviewing the most influential discoveries made in Quebec.

Here is a closer look at the selected discoveries:

Classified as: Quebec Science, Günther Grill, Bernhard Lehner, Tomislav Friščić, Heidi M. McBride, Samantha Gruenheid, Ehab Abouheif
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Published on: 9 Jan 2020

Spending on advertising by major oil corporations has reached an all-time high over the past decade. In a recent paper in , researchers from Թ, Brown and Rutgers Universities tried to determine the factors that might explain this increase (from an average total annual expenditure of $35 million between 1986-1996 for the five biggest companies together to an average of $217 million annually between 2008-2016 for the same companies).

Classified as: climate change, oil companies, media, Jason Carmichael, Department of Sociology, Sustainability
Published on: 7 Jan 2020

Astronomers in Europe, working with members of Canada’s CHIME Fast Radio Burst collaboration, have pinpointed the location of a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) first detected by the CHIME telescope in British Columbia in 2018. The breakthrough is only the second time that scientists have determined the precise location of a repeating source of these millisecond bursts of radio waves from space.

Published on: 6 Jan 2020

For years, physicians have been aware that patients carrying the apolipoprotein ꜫ4 (APOE ꜫ4) gene are at a greater risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. New research from Թ has now found the gene plays an even greater role in dementia.

Classified as: Alzheimer's, Douglas Institute, neuroimaging
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Published on: 20 Dec 2019

How can predators coexist with their prey over long periods without the predators completely depleting the resource that keeps them alive? Experiments performed over a period of 10 years by researchers from Թ and the Universities of Oldenburg and Potsdam have now confirmed that regular oscillations in predator-prey populations can persist over very long periods

Classified as: evolution, Science research, Department of Biology, predators, prey, Sustainability
Published on: 18 Dec 2019

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 ‘full-employment’ situation, the proportion of food bank users who are employed is also on the rise.

Classified as: amélie quesnel-vallée income inequality
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Published on: 17 Dec 2019

CIFAR today announced its newest cohort of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, which includes nine researchers from Թ, bringing the total number of Թ researchers named to the program to 17. These top academic researchers are part of the $125 million Pan-Canadian AI Strategy, the world’s 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.

Classified as: Research and Innovation, CIFAR, Azrieli Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), AI, Artificial intelligence
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Published on: 9 Dec 2019

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 Թ’s Department of Geography and Simon Linke from Griffith University’s Australian Rivers Institute.

Classified as: rivers, catchments, Bernhard Lehner, Simon Linke, HydroATLAS, Sustainability
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Published on: 9 Dec 2019

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 Թ’s Biology Department, surveyed over 600 studies on the impacts of urban growth on biodiversity. They published their findings today in Nature Sustainability.

Classified as: science, Research, Sustainability, biodiversity, cities
Published on: 9 Dec 2019

Թ 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.

Classified as: Sustainability
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Published on: 5 Dec 2019

Old habits are hard to break. A Թ-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’s 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. The study was published recently in .

Classified as: Sustainability, science, Research, China, air pollution, climate change, health, clean technology
Published on: 5 Dec 2019

Recently, a project testing metal combustion led by the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at Թ launched on a European Space Agency rocket.

The project, an international collaboration between the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at Թ, the European Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, and Airbus Defence and Space, aims to improve scientific understanding of metal flames, laying the groundwork for a new type of green engine that burns iron powder, with only rust as a by-product.

Classified as: zero-carbon, Alternative Fuels Laboratory, PERWAVES, european space agency, Sustainability, clean tech
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Published on: 4 Dec 2019

Թ’s Board of Governors received today recommendations to reduce the overall carbon footprint of the University’s investments, as part of a report from the Committee to Advise on Matters of Social Responsibility (CAMSR).

Prepared for the Board in response to a Թ Senate resolution on divestment from the fossil fuel industry, the CAMSR report and recommendations support the continued evolution of the University’s investment portfolio towards a more sustainable and less carbon-intensive investment strategy.

Classified as: Sustainability
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Published on: 3 Dec 2019

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