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A team of researchers believe that, paradoxically, climate change may result in Quebec's national and provincial parks becoming biodiversity refuges of continental importance as the variety of species present there increases. ...

May 16, 2018 in Ecology

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A new method for projecting how the temperature will respond to human impacts supports the outlook for substantial global warming throughout this century—but also indicates that, in many regions, warming patterns are likely ...

May 15, 2018 in Environment

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New research shows how and where tungsten accumulates in bones of mice exposed to the element through drinking water. The findings, by a team of chemists and biologists at McGill University, could add to doubts over the once-universal ...

Apr 17, 2018 in Biochemistry

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How is it that fertilized chicken eggs manage to resist fracture from the outside, while at the same time, are weak enough to break from the inside during chick hatching? It's all in the eggshell's nanostructure, according ...

Mar 30, 2018 in Nanomaterials

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Highly complex interactions among roots, fungi and bacteria underlie the ability of some trees to clean polluted land, according to a novel study by bioinformatics and plant-biology experts from McGill University and Université ...

Mar 28, 2018 in Cell & Microbiology

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Wild birds that are more clever than others at foraging for food have different levels of a neurotransmitter receptor that has been linked with intelligence in humans, according to a study led by McGill University researchers. ...

Mar 14, 2018 in Plants & Animals

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Researchers at McGill University have invented a new technique for measuring how quickly drugs interact with their molecular targets. The discovery provides scientists with a new way to investigate the effectiveness of drug ...

Mar 01, 2018 in Biochemistry

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A new report from McGill Urban Planning professor David Wachsmuth and his team provides an analysis of Airbnb activity in New York City and the surrounding region in the last three years (September 2014 - August 2017). ...

Jan 31, 2018 in Economics & Business

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Researchers at McGill University have discovered a new, more environmentally friendly way to make ketones, an important chemical ingredient in pharmaceuticals. While ketones are found in a wide range of useful chemicals, ...

Jan 29, 2018 in Materials Science

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The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be - a discovery that challenges scientists' understanding of the many planets of this type found in solar systems outside ...

Jan 22, 2018 in Astronomy

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