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Environment Sep 30, 2025

Our AI model can help improve indoor ventilation during wildfire season

A recent report from the University of Chicago's Air Quality Life Index found that wildfires are worsening air quality in Canada. The report found that in 2023, wildfires caused concentrations of particulate matter to rise ...

Social Sciences Sep 18, 2025

Children's best interests should anchor Canada's approach to their online privacy

In 2025, the rapid rise of artificial intelligence access for the public at large also means growing concern about the mental health impact of screen time on children and their AI engagement.

Environment Aug 27, 2025

Maternal exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect later generations

A tiny fish with transparent embryos is helping University of California, Davis, researchers shed light on how exposure to crude oil and flame retardants can affect behavior, skeletal growth, cardiac health and other internal ...

Nanophysics Aug 18, 2025

Carbon nanotube 'smart windows' offer energy savings by modulating near-infrared light transmission

Half of the sun's radiant energy falls outside of the visible spectrum. On a cold day, this extra infrared light provides additional warmth to residential and commercial buildings. On a warm day, it leads to unwanted heating ...

Condensed Matter Aug 15, 2025

A new crystal that 'breathes' oxygen expands possibilities for clean energy and electronics

A team of scientists from Korea and Japan has discovered a new type of crystal that can "breathe"—releasing and absorbing oxygen repeatedly at relatively low temperatures. This unique ability could transform the way we develop ...

Evolution Aug 8, 2025

The great apes' guide to human nature

What can chimpanzees teach us about ourselves? A lot, says Craig Stanford, who's spent three decades studying the lives of our closest cousins.

Cell & Microbiology Jul 24, 2025

AI-powered microscope predicts and tracks protein aggregation linked to brain diseases

The accumulation of misfolded proteins in the brain is central to the progression of neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington's, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. But to the human eye, proteins that are destined to form harmful ...

Biochemistry Jul 16, 2025

Shapeshifting liquid crystal can form emulsions, then change back

Cornell researchers have developed a two-phase liquid crystal system that can rapidly change—and hold—its shape, transforming from a transparent thin liquid film to an opaque emulsion, and then back again, all with a brief ...

Nanophysics Jul 15, 2025

New AI tool deciphers mysteries of nanoparticle motion in liquid environments

Nanoparticles—the tiniest building blocks of our world—are constantly in motion, bouncing, shifting, and drifting in unpredictable paths shaped by invisible forces and random environmental fluctuations.

Condensed Matter Jul 14, 2025

Scientists unveil new way to control magnetism in super-thin materials

A powerful new method to control magnetic behavior in ultra-thin materials could lead to faster, smaller and more energy-efficient technologies, a study suggests.

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