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Quebec launches network of reseach chairs in science diplomacy
Acting in the roles of diplomats and advisors, scientists can help solve pressing world problems, argues Quebec Chief Scientist Rémi Quirion.
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McGill researchers help advance genetic research through a video game
Borderlands Science, a mini-game within the popular Borderlands 3 video game is putting a new spin on citizen science.
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Reclaiming open access
It’s time to prioritize investments in open infrastructure to realize truly transformational open access.
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Researchers help fill information gap on abortion options with new decision aid
‘When you look online for anything about abortion, it is very difficult to know what you’re reading is legitimate and accurate,’ says one of the creators.
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This PhD student turned his research on superconductivity into an award-winning music video
“There is very little that can’t be translated into dance,” says U of Alberta physicist Pramodh Senarath Yapa, who took home “best overall” in Science’s Dance Your PhD contest.
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National survey to shed light on postsecondary student homelessness
After years of collecting anecdotal data, UNB professor Eric Weissman is leading a study to bring the issue of student homelessness out of the shadows.
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Loneliness: the silent killer
Researchers from numerous disciplines have begun to investigate the heavy toll that loneliness takes on society.
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The Genome Foundry ushers Canada into the era of automated genetic engineering
The Concordia research facility is the first of its kind in Canada, and one of about 15 labs in the world to specialize in the automated assembly of DNA parts.
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Quebec university to open country’s first ‘body farm’ research site
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières has recruited top Australian forensics expert to study the open-air decomposition of human remains.
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Even an academic hoax needs ethics approval
The authors of the fake “grievance studies” papers would have made a stronger point if they’d gone through an institutional review board.
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Over 60 million pages of digitized Canadian heritage documents now accessible
The Canadian Research Knowledge Network made its Canadiana collections open to the public on January 1.
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Bake Your Thesis brings together sweets and scholarship
The event, where graduate students explained their research in the form of a baked good, appears to be the first of its kind in Canada.
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An academic’s podcast gets the peer-review treatment
Experiment between a professor and a university press examines the question: can a podcast be academic research?
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The benefits and challenges of international research collaboration
Working with international colleagues can provide new insights and even a career boost, but it takes patience and planning.
