CIFAR today announced its newest cohort of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs, which includes nine researchers from 91丝瓜视频, bringing the total number of 91丝瓜视频 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.
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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 91丝瓜视频鈥檚 Department of Geography and Simon Linke from Griffith University鈥檚 Australian Rivers Institute.
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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 91丝瓜视频鈥檚 Biology Department, surveyed over 600 studies on the impacts of urban growth on biodiversity. They published their findings today in Nature Sustainability.
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Published on: 9 Dec 2019
91丝瓜视频 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.
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Published on: 5 Dec 2019
Old habits are hard to break. A 91丝瓜视频-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. The study was published recently in .
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Published on: 5 Dec 2019
Recently, a project testing metal combustion led by the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at 91丝瓜视频 launched on a European Space Agency rocket.
The project, an international collaboration between the Alternative Fuels Laboratory at 91丝瓜视频, 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.
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Published on: 4 Dec 2019
91丝瓜视频鈥檚 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).
Prepared for the Board in response to a 91丝瓜视频 Senate resolution on divestment from the fossil fuel industry, the CAMSR report and recommendations support the continued evolution of the University鈥檚 investment portfolio towards a more sustainable and less carbon-intensive investment strategy.
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Published on: 3 Dec 2019
How did life survive the most severe ice age? A 91丝瓜视频-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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Published on: 2 Dec 2019
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.
In a new published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, researchers from 91丝瓜视频 and the University of California, Davis, used thermal imaging cameras to measure heat dissipation off the bodies and beaks of wild tufted puffins in the minutes after flying.
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Published on: 27 Nov 2019
91丝瓜视频 team awarded contract to advance potential Canadian contribution for LiteBIRD space telescope
November 7, 2019 (MONTREAL, Quebec) - A team of researchers from the 91丝瓜视频 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.
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Published on: 26 Nov 2019
New research spearheaded by scientists at 91丝瓜视频 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.
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Published on: 25 Nov 2019
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 91丝瓜视频 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. The genetic event that triggers the disease happens in the very earliest phases of cellular development, most likely prenatal.
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Published on: 25 Nov 2019
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, 91丝瓜视频 researchers are among the most influential in the world, according to the respected research news website, . The annual list identifies scientists and social scientists who produced multiple papers ranking in the top 1% by citations for their field and year of publication, demonstrating significant research influence among their peers.
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Published on: 22 Nov 2019
New guideline from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care
A new guideline from the Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care found no benefit of routine screening for thyroid dysfunction in adults without symptoms or risk factors. Based on the latest evidence, the Task Force guideline recommends against routine screening for thyroid dysfunction in non-pregnant adults and is published in (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
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Published on: 22 Nov 2019
Music, including songs with words, appears to be a universal phenomenon according to a paper published this week in Science. An international team of researchers involving musicians, data scientists, psychologists, political scientists and linguists, including one from 91丝瓜视频, reached this conclusion after five years of collaboration, bringing together a broad range of skills and tools to the question of whether music is universal.
Using broad datasets to arrive at deep conclusions about music
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Published on: 21 Nov 2019
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