Fourteen billion years ago…
Cosmic Microwave Background radiation sheds light on big questions
Sci + Tech
Rats, monkeys, and the human brain
Despite rapid advancements in the field of neurocognitive science, many complexities of the human brain, the “last frontier” of the human body, remain elusive. Executing… Read More »Rats, monkeys, and the human brain
Sinfully science
Soup and science goes into the next round
Out with the New?
McGill math profs weigh in on shelling out for the latest edition of a textbook
Online communities: orcs to hand-knit scarves
National Science Foundation gives grant to study creativity on the Internet
Painting, writing, and surviving
Why did humans evolve the capacity to make art?
For the good of bacterial kind
Researchers study survival strategies of antibiotic-resistant E. coli
Martian microbes, maybe
Canadian scientists get involved in looking at possible biosignatures of life on Mars
Course registration 2.0
Student-made solutions to McGill’s clunky interfaces
10345664th floor, please
McGill students compete in elevator race to space for $1-million prize
One fish, two fish, red fish, SSMU fish
Where we’ve come in the fight against overfishing
Education minus the tuition
Students use free, online MIT lectures as a substitute for class
Tampering with the genetic code
Benefits and concerns for bioengineered food
Earth on Tickertape
New research suggests that hydrochlorofluorocarbons, which are used in aerosol spray and have been phased in to replace ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons, may cause acid rain. Hydrochlorofluorocarbons… Read More »Earth on Tickertape
Mental metaphors
Prof talks “new” neuroscience and technology