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Benoît Mâsse, Caroline Quach-Thanh and Andrés Finzi

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The pandemic: a pause in research or a springboard?

11 March 2025

Article

When it comes to making one's bed, there appears to a gap with chimps between the sexes: females, it seems, do it more often than males, and from a younger age. And that shows they're more independent, earlier in life.

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She's better at making her bed

7 March 2025

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Illustration of LTT 9779 b, the only known ultra-hot Neptune. This planet orbits so close to its star that its atmosphere is scorching hot, glowing from its own heat while also reflecting starlight. Because it is tidally locked - always showing the same side to its star - one half is permanently in daylight while the other remains in darkness. New JWST observations with NIRISS reveal a dynamic atmosphere: powerful winds sweep around the planet, shaping mineral clouds as they condense into a bright, white arc on the slightly cooler western side of the dayside. As these clouds move eastward, they evaporate under the intense heat, leaving the eastern dayside with clear skies.

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Today's forecast: partially cloudy skies on an "ultra-hot Neptune"

25 February 2025

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Artist’s rendering of the exoplanet WASP-121b. It shows only a portion of the exoplanet, showcasing instead the three layers of its atmosphere with more detail.

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First 3D observations of an exoplanet’s atmosphere reveal a unique climate

18 February 2025

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European halibut, zebrafish, three-spined stickleback and ctenolabra. These four fish species were the subject of Jérémy De Bonville's research project.

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Some fish adapt faster than others to changes in water temperature

14 February 2025

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Our speed skaters can adjust to a 13-hour time difference in just five days. That’s twice as fast as the conventional theory that it takes half a day to a full day of recovery per time zone.

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Getting over a 13-hour jet lag: how do Canada’s speed-skaters do it?

9 February 2025

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While Romeas sees potential for VR in training for specific tasks and environments, he believes much work is needed to make it useful for high-level athletes.

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VR training: no substitute for the real thing

6 February 2025

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Catherine Régis, Yoshua Bengio and Gilles Brassard

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UdeM, AI and physics: the French connection

6 February 2025

Brief

Gilles Brassard

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Gilles Brassard wants to keep us safe

5 February 2025

Press release

Yoshua Bengio

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The first International Report on AI Safety, led by Yoshua Bengio, is launched

29 January 2025

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The Advancing Net Zero has three key goals: to maximize the reduction of operational energy-related CO2 emissions, to produce and use renewable energy both on and off site, and to offset incompressible residual emissions.

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Decarbonization: net-zero building standards may not have a global impact

27 January 2025

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Dounia Shaaban Kabakibo

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Longer life, less weight, less flammable: is this the future of batteries?

15 January 2025

Article

Red fronted lemur (Eulemur rufifrons)

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Why are lemurs nearly extinct, and yet so diverse?

7 January 2025

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The research team led by Prof. Alexis Vallée-BélisleThe has discovered how to program biomolecules or nanomachines so that they can activate at different times, acting as molecular timers. The image illustrates that time, at the molecular level, can be programmed by the very biomolecules that make up living organisms. It focuses on DNA, the biomolecule that has enabled the research group to study the biochemical mechanisms that regulate time.

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Tinkering with the “clockwork” mechanisms of life

19 December 2024

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Understanding the molecular mechanisms of axon guidance is crucial to developing therapeutic strategies for neurological disorders.

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Understanding neurological diseases: crucial interactions come to light

13 December 2024

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Táfula Santos drew on the work of mathematician Askold Khovanskii, who has described how certain sets of numbers grow when you keep adding numbers from the set together, to create a new breed of chess knight and, surprisingly, link it to the well-known Fibonacci sequence.

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How much faster is a knight than a king? A mathematical study reveals the exact ratio!

11 December 2024

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Involving 97 scientists from 11 countries, the Arctic Report Card reveals record-setting observations of a rapidly warming Arctic, including rising air temperatures, declines of large inland caribou herds, and increasing precipitation.

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The Arctic is on fire

10 December 2024

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Given the pressing need to develop therapeutic interventions against vision loss, researchers around the world are testing different ways to repair damaged macula.

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Using stem-cell transplants to treat blindness

6 December 2024

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Julien Arsenault, Jean-François Lapierre and Émilie Jolin around a natural pond in the Grande-Plée-Bleue peat bog in Lévis. Covering nearly 1,500 hectares (15 square kilometres), this peat bog is one of the largest and rarest peat bogs in southern Quebec still in its natural state.

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Restoring peatlands to their (almost) natural state

28 November 2024

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Based on the data, the doctoral student found that music training has a “moderate to large” positive effect on inhibition control.

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Music training boosts children’s cognitive development

25 November 2024

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A Mexican delegation has retrieved 84 Mesoamerican axes.

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Restoring Mexico’s archaeological heritage to its rightful place

7 November 2024

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Some organisms bend the rules of life, reminding us that scientific truth can be stranger than supernatural legend.

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Animals that can cheat death

30 October 2024

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There is no universal dictionary for interpreting gestures like what is offered in television series such as "CSI" or "The Mentalist," recalls Vincent Denault.

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Australian courts use “body language” to judge witness credibility

29 October 2024

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There is a critical need for a science-based, interdisciplinary approach to accurately weigh the costs and benefits of different methods of controlling invasive species.

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Insect invasions: Why we must act responsibly and act now

18 October 2024

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The study found that the planet’s atmosphere contains a high concentration of heavier molecules, including a significant amount of water vapor.

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Astronomers probe a “steam world”

4 October 2024

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The study illustrates the functional importance of inter-cellular signal exchanges, but it's only the beginning, the researchers believe.

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Getting the body to function properly

25 September 2024

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A star’s temperature is far from uniform; it varies both across the star’s surface and over time. Now an innovative technique developed by UdeM’s Étienne Artigau and his team makes it possible to track these changes with unprecedented precision.

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Taking a star’s temperature

19 September 2024

Press release

Overview of the site with a sieving station for clay soil in water-filled bins, using fine mesh sieves to recover the smallest artifacts.

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On the trail of Indigenous peoples in Outaouais

6 August 2024

Article

The Proyecto Arqueológico Ucanal team at the Mayan site of Ucanal, located in northern Guatemala.

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UdeM students search for traces of the Mayan past in Guatemala

30 July 2024

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An infested specimen

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How do parasitic worms affect the oxygen uptake of sunfish?

25 July 2024

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