A comprehensive five-year study by University of Calgary ecologists – which included monitoring the activity of wolves, elks, cattle and humans – indicates that two accepted principles of how ecosystems ...

Biology - Ecology

May 08, 2013 4.1 / 5 (7) 3

A small, bird-like North American dinosaur incubated its eggs in a similar way to brooding birds – bolstering the evolutionary link between birds and dinosaurs, researchers at the University of Calgary ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 18, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 3 |

For years, many scientists believed that forest tree lines on mountains everywhere would shift to higher elevations as the planet's temperature increased due to global warming.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 11, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

Two University of Calgary researchers have developed a ground-breaking way to make new affordable and efficient catalysts for converting electricity into chemical energy.

Chemistry - Materials Science

Mar 28, 2013 4.4 / 5 (13) 4 |

Dramatic climate change was previously proposed to be responsible for the disappearance of turtles 71-million-years ago, because they were considered to be "climate-sensitive" animals. Results of this research, ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 14, 2013 5 / 5 (5) 0 |

Researchers studying data from 600 fields in 20 countries have found that managed honey bees are not as successful at pollinating crops as wild insects, primarily wild bees, suggesting the continuing loss ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 28, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 1 |

Everyone knows that if you want to see a great distance, getting up higher makes for a better view. University of Calgary researchers are following that principle to make ground-breaking discoveries of asteroids in near-Earth ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Feb 22, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Albert Einstein called quantum entanglement—two particles in different locations, even on other sides of the universe, influencing each other—"spooky action at a distance."

Physics - Quantum Physics

Feb 08, 2013 2.8 / 5 (12) 24

Physicists at the University of Calgary and at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo have published new research in Nature Physics which builds on the original ideas of Einstein and adds a new ingredient: a thir ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Dec 14, 2012 4.8 / 5 (16) 103 |

The ostrich-like dinosaurs in the original Jurassic Park movie were portrayed as a herd of scaly, fleet-footed animals being chased by a ferocious Tyrannosaurus rex. New research published in the prestigious ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 25, 2012 4.9 / 5 (11) 5 |

With Arctic ice cap at record low this summer, University of Calgary geography professor John Yackel predicts serious consequences for the planet.

Space & Earth - Environment

Sep 24, 2012 3.7 / 5 (6) 1

Policy makers need to be cautious in setting new 'low-carbon' standards for greenhouse gas emissions for oil sands-derived fuels as well as fuels from conventional crude oils University of Calgary and University of Toronto ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jul 13, 2012 4.8 / 5 (4) 11

Many of the predictions we make in everyday life are vague, and we often get them wrong because we have incomplete information, such as when we predict the weather.

Physics - Quantum Physics

Jul 09, 2012 4.6 / 5 (8) 13

Researchers in the Biometric Technologies Laboratory at the University of Calgary have developed a way for security systems to combine different biometric measurements—such as eye colour, face shape or fingerprints—and ...

Technology - Computer Sciences

Jun 21, 2012 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) -- Researchers in the computer science department at the University of Calgary have developed a new font for numbers that represent their relative value. Unlike the usual numeric typefaces, the ...

Technology - Other

May 30, 2012 3.5 / 5 (4) 0