You are in a strange neighbourhood, your cell phone鈥檚 dead, and you desperately need to find the closest garage. A couple of people on the street chime in, each sending you in opposite directions. One person sounds like a local and speaks in a nonchalant manner, while the other uses a loud, confident voice but speaks with a strong accent. Who are you going to trust?
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Published on: 19 Sep 2018
Plasticity is enhanced but dysregulated in the aging brain
They say you can鈥檛 teach old dogs new tricks, but new research shows you can teach an old rat new sounds, even if the lesson doesn鈥檛 stick very long.
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Published on: 19 Sep 2018
By Katherine Gombay
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Published on: 19 Sep 2018
A team of scientists has calculated the strength of the material deep inside the crust of neutron stars and found it to be the strongest known material in the universe.
Matthew Caplan, a postdoctoral research fellow at 91丝瓜视频, and his colleagues from Indiana University and the California Institute of Technology, successfully ran the largest computer simulations ever conducted of neutron star crusts, becoming the first to describe how these break.
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Published on: 18 Sep 2018
Scientists at the Research Institute of the 91丝瓜视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) have identified new means of fighting drug-tolerant bacteria, a growing global threat as menacing as drug-resistant microbes. Little is known about the mechanisms leading to tolerance, a strategy that makes bacteria 鈥渋ndifferent鈥� to antibiotics and almost 鈥渦n-killable,鈥� which results in chronic infections extremely difficult to treat and cure.
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Published on: 13 Sep 2018
Today, the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) announced the induction of 89 new Fellows, five of which are 91丝瓜视频 researchers and scholars. The RSC also announced 52 new members to the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, including six 91丝瓜视频 scholars. The new cohorts of Fellows and Members will be formally inducted into the RSC in November, in Halifax.
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Published on: 11 Sep 2018
A forthcoming study of over a hundred new cities being built around the world suggests developers and planning authorities are doing very little to make their projects resilient to climate change. On the contrary, a boom in new city projects in coastal areas 鈥� including some on reclaimed land in the sea 鈥� appears to fly in the face of the danger of rising sea levels and more frequent extreme weather events.
Published on: 10 Sep 2018
Several new medicines have been found to be more effective than traditional ones used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according to a new international collaborative study led by Dr. Dick Menzies, senior scientist at the Research Institute of the 91丝瓜视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal. These findings precipitated a complete overhaul of worldwide TB treatment guidelines, with the results of this work published today in the British medical journal The Lancet.
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Published on: 7 Sep 2018
Fewer than half of adults and children experiencing food-induced anaphylaxis use their epinephrine autoinjector (EAI) before being treated at a hospital emergency room, according to a new Canadian study.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a disappointing reality that epinephrine is seriously underused,鈥� says lead researcher Dr. Moshe Ben-Shoshan, a pediatric allergist and immunologist at the Research Institute of the 91丝瓜视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) and at the Montreal Children鈥檚 Hospital, and an assistant professor of Pediatrics at 91丝瓜视频.
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Published on: 7 Sep 2018
By Diane Weidner, Steinberg Centre for Simulation and Interactive Learning
It鈥檚 not every day that an astronaut visits our Centre! On December 20, 2018, Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques will fly to the International Space Station on聽his first mission. During his assignment, he will conduct a series of聽, robotics tasks and test new technologies.
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Published on: 4 Sep 2018
Preterm birth is a major global public health problem. Every year, 15 million babies are born prematurely and many will suffer from neurodegenerative disorders, including cerebral palsy, learning disabilities, impaired vision, and behavioural problems.
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Published on: 4 Sep 2018
Miasya Bulger and Raphael Hotter have been named 91丝瓜视频鈥檚 recipients of the prestigious Schulich Leaders Scholarship.
This year, out of a pool of 350,000 potential candidates across Canada, 1,400 students were nominated, of which 50 received this celebrated award.
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Published on: 30 Aug 2018
The largest study ever to investigate the genetics of osteoporosis and fracture risk determined that only two examined factors 鈥� bone mineral density (BMD) and muscle strength 鈥� play a potentially causal role in the risk of suffering osteoporotic fracture, a major health problem affecting more than 9 million people worldwide very year. Other clinical risk factors like vitamin D levels and calcium intake, historically considered to be crucial mediators of fracture, were not found to directly predispose people in the general population to fracture. This research was published in the BMJ.
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Published on: 30 Aug 2018
When it comes to weight gain, the problem may be mostly in our heads, and our genes
Clinicians should consider how the way we think can make us vulnerable to obesity, and how obesity is genetically intertwined with brain structure and mental performance, according to new research.
Published on: 28 Aug 2018
PHOTO: In a series of experiments, NYU researchers tested how much we believe different traits co-occur in other people's personalities鈥攆or instance, how much we think competence co-occurs with friendliness in others. They then used a method able to visualize the subjects鈥� mental image of a personality trait, allowing them to see if subjects who believe competent people tend to also be friendly have mental images of a competent face and friendly face that are physically more resembling. (Image courtesy of Ryan Stolier and Jonathan Freeman, New York University.)
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Published on: 27 Aug 2018
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