Playing video games may enhance reading skills
Data shows the activity may contribute to improving one's peripheral attention skills that are essential for reading ability.
Education
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Prairies facing ecological disaster from uncontrolled spread of wild pigs
His warnings have gone largely unheeded, while wild pigs continue rapidly expanding across Western Canada, with no nationally co-ordinated science-based containment strategy in place and limited provincial resources available. ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 3, 2021
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How scientists are improving cold-region water and climate prediction models
The world is changing rapidly, and the past is no longer a guide to the future in terms of extreme events and floods. That's one of the findings from a paper on the Changing Cold Regions Network (CCRN), a summary of the research ...
Environment
May 28, 2021
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Scientists measure new depths at the bottom of the hydrologic cycle
The research could allow people to make predictions at the continental scale about where it might be safer to store contaminants deep underground.
Earth Sciences
May 11, 2021
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Research team produces first female bison pregnancy with sex-sorted sperm
This latest collaborative project represents another research first for a long-term partnership between USask researchers and Dr. Gabriela Mastromonaco, director of conservation science at the Toronto Zoo.
Biotechnology
Apr 27, 2021
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Model for predicting mountain snowpack provides clearer picture of spring runoff, impacts of climate change
After decades of research, a new model was developed by University of Saskatchewan (USask) researchers that for the first time successfully predicted mountain snowpack with a high degree of accuracy and detail—information ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 10, 2021
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Calling all citizen scientists: Help classify polar bears
University of Saskatchewan (USask) researcher Doug Clark is launching a first-of-its-kind research project that will engage citizen volunteers to help advance knowledge about polar bear behavior by analyzing a decade's worth ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 1, 2021
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Brushing 'gold standard' for pet dental health
To help bring more awareness about pet's oral health, February is National Pet Dental Health Month in Canada and the United States.
Veterinary medicine
Feb 18, 2021
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Researchers put forage plants to the test in intensive grazing trial
Using two years of data from summer grazing at the Livestock and Forage Centre of Excellence, Master of Science candidate Cassidy Sim is looking at how well new forage varieties persist when grazed at high stock density, ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 12, 2021
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International team tracks record-setting smoke cloud from Australian wildfires
Researchers with the University of Saskatchewan's Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies are part of a global team that has found that the smoke cloud pushed into the stratosphere by last winter's Australian wildfires ...
Environment
Oct 29, 2020
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