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Funny you should say that
A scientific conference is no stand-up comedy club, but research shows a little humour can engage an audience.
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The unpredictable path
What a sharp turn into the biotech industry revealed about the importance of building fundamental skills.
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NSERC moves to keep research IP in Canada
The granting agency is steering toward a new funding model to keep intellectual property rights, and the commercial technologies they spawn, in Canadian hands.
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Diversity strengthens discovery
What Nobel Laureates reveal about diversity, discovery and societal impact.
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Inside the University of Saskatchewan’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization
Home to one of Canada’s only Level 3 biosafety labs, VIDO was one of the first in the country to isolate SARS-CoV-2.
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UBC earthquake lab shakes, rattles and rolls
The Earthquake Engineering Research Facility is studying the dangers of seismic instability.
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Carleton researcher turned his passion for whales into an award-winning career
Marine biologist Shane Gero studies how sperm whales live. Now he wants to know what they are talking about.
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A 7,600 kilometre expedition in the name of academic research
Quebec adventurers spent months crossing Canada from north to south while participating in three research projects.
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Getting back to fieldwork
After prolonged delays, many academics are hoping to restart their stalled research projects.
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The promise and pitfalls of synthetic data
Computer scientists and statisticians are starting to create datasets that mimic important properties of the real thing, which could help ease privacy concerns.
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Rethinking academic conferencing for a carbon-constrained world
COVID-19 has forced academic conferencing online. As we emerge from the pandemic, we mustn’t return to the ‘old normal.’
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Tracking aggressive behaviour of coyotes in Vancouver’s Stanley Park
A UBC biologist is advising residents not to feed the wildlife.
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Meet the education academics reimagining how math is taught
Advocates of ‘humanistic math’ are on a mission to help schoolchildren from all backgrounds see the world differently.
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UNBC supercomputer reveals acceleration of global glacier loss
Funded by the University of Northern British Columbia and the Hakai Institute, the powerful set of computers show the mass loss of Earth’s glaciers has increased at unexpected rates.
