Trade and social networking helped our Homo sapiens ancestors survive a climate-changing volcanic eruption 40,000 years ago, giving hope that we will be able to ride out global warming by staying interconnected, a new study ...
Archaeology
Apr 16, 2018
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A team of international researchers led by a Canadian biologist has found that infection with parasites makes it harder for seafish living in coral reefs to think.
Plants & Animals
Mar 6, 2018
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Thanks to data collected by NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope on galaxies up to 3.5 billion light years away from Earth, an international team of astrophysicists has detected what are likely to be the most massive black holes ...
Astronomy
Feb 20, 2018
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Stainless steel is widely used in surgical medicine: for medical devices such coronary stents, hip-implant stems and spinal-disc replacements, and for a variety of surgical tools such as scalpels and forceps, as well as operating ...
Materials Science
Jan 16, 2018
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Scientists at Université de Montréal have developed a unique technique to map, on a scale of milliseconds, the elasticity of the components inside a cell.
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 16, 2018
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This week, Nature published an article that could challenge the theory of stellar evolution.
Astronomy
Jan 12, 2018
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An international research team led by Université de Montréal astrophysicist Lauren Weiss has discovered that exoplanets orbiting the same star tend to have similar sizes and a regular orbital spacing. This pattern, revealed ...
Astronomy
Jan 9, 2018
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New research using data collected by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) has revealed that a little-known exoplanet called K2-18b could well be a scaled-up version of Earth.
Astronomy
Dec 5, 2017
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Antibiotics are commonly used around the world to cure diseases caused by bacteria. But as the World Health Organization and other international bodies have pointed out, the global increase of antibiotic resistance is a rapidly ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 22, 2017
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Are voters in new democracies so disenchanted with the political process that more and more are staying away from the polls?
Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2017
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