In a new study, PhD students Gabriel Bridges and Shifra Mandel help show that both poles of Jupiter are aglow with high-energy light.
Did you know that more than 26,500 Canadians died from opioid intoxication between January 2016 and September 2021?
Everyone knows the human brain is extremely complex – but how does it learn, exactly? Well, the answer may be a lot simpler than commonly believed.
Heart attacks are damaging, and the severity depends on how long blood flow has been interrupted; when temporarily deprived of oxygen, heart cells die.
Is the grief experience different for individuals who have lost a loved one by medical assistance in dying (MAiD) compared to natural death with palliative care (NDPC)?
Earth will meet a similar fate in 5 billion years.
SoftZoo is a soft robot co-design platform that can test optimal shapes and sizes for robotic performance in different environments.
Following cataract removal, some of the brain’s visual pathways seem to be more malleable than previously thought.
The event was spotted in infrared data — also a first — suggesting further searches in this band could turn up more such bursts.
Darwin’s theory of evolution probably isn’t the full explanation for the emergence of life.
It’s not every day that someone comes across a new state of matter in quantum physics, the scientific field devoted to describing the behaviour of atomic and subatomic particles in order to elucidate their properties.
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected Canadian women’s mental health both during pregnancy and in the postpartum period, confirms the CONCEPTION study led by Anick Bérard, researcher at CHU Sainte-Justine and professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy at the Université de Montréal.
Using the internet frequently during the height of the pandemic has been linked to poorer mental health for young and middle-aged men - but not for women of the same age, a new study has found.
Reforms to remove legal exemptions to give live-in domestic workers access to the minimum wage are an important step against the devaluation of this work but will be difficult to enforce because of Britain’s immigration rules, a new study says.
A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a new programming language known as “A Tensor Language” (ATL) designed for high-performance computing that could solve the issue of trade-offs between speed and reliability.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have identified two distinct cell populations in the brain that are affected differently by Huntington’s disease, which could help lead to new treatments that target specific cells within the brain.
Historic graffiti of ships carved in an African fort were drawn by soldiers on guard duty watching the sea, University of Exeter experts believe.
The first detailed academic study of East African maritime traditions shows changes in boatbuilding techniques but the continuing use of wooden vessels by fishers.
Members of minority groups can boost collective action by seeking the ideas and perspectives of fellow group members, new research shows.
Conservation of sea turtles along much of Africa's east coast has made good progress in recent decades – but tens of thousands of turtles still die each year due to human activity, researchers say.