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To empirically test their method’s identification potential, researchers selected six unidentified male skeletons that had been exhumed over the years at four historical cemeteries in Quebec.

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Anonymous no more:combining genetics with genealogy to identify the dead in unmarked grave

24 February 2020

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Model chiral macrocycle (shown in blue) in the catalytic pocket of the enzyme CALB (shown in grey, catalytic serine shown in green). The figure was generated from the PDB ID 5GV5 using PyMOL Molecular Graphics System, Version 1.2r3pre, Schrödinger, LLC. The docking of the macrocycles was carried out with the Fitted program from the FORECASTER computational platform. Credit: Université de Montréal.

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Shaping the rings of molecules

21 February 2020

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Model chiral macrocycle (shown in blue) in the catalytic pocket of the enzyme CALB (shown in grey, catalytic serine shown in green). The figure was generated from the PDB ID 5GV5 using PyMOL Molecular Graphics System, Version 1.2r3pre, Schrödinger, LLC. The docking of the macrocycles was carried out with the Fitted program from the FORECASTER computational platform. Credit: Université de Montréal.

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Shaping the rings of molecules

21 February 2020

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Two new online courses in artificial intelligence will be offered to millions of new learners.

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Democratizing data science

12 February 2020

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The first and senior authors of the study, Ning Wu and André Veillette.

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"Scrambled" cells fix themselves

28 January 2020

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Veterinarians now have a scale that measures the level of pain in cats based on the position of the animal's ears, nose, whiskers and eyelids.

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The "Feline grimace scale" gets published

17 January 2020

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Climate change unlikely to drive sugar maples north

13 January 2020

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Damselfishes on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, including species used by the researchers in their study.

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Double-checking the science

8 January 2020

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Cara Tannenbaum

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Sex and gender in science: why they matter

14 November 2019

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David Saint-Jacques et René Pelletier

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René Pelletier, the osteopath who helped David Saint-Jacques readjust to life on Earth

15 October 2019

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An artistic representation of the exoplanet K2-18b.

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Water detected on an exoplanet located in its star’s habitable zone

11 September 2019

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Rue Cousineau, Cartierville, neighborhood of Montreal, 8 May 2017.

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Getting the picture on climate change

3 September 2019

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Artist's illustration of gas streaming from GJ 3470 b.

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Probing a new class of exoplanets

2 July 2019

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NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson walks in space outside the Destiny and Harmony modules of the International Space Station.

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Detecting bacteria in space

22 May 2019

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Gilles Brassard.

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China rewards Gilles Brassard for his role in the "quantum revolution"

7 May 2019

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Early spring: Predicting budburst with genetics

7 May 2019

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Yoshua Bengio

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'The Nobel Prize of computing'

27 March 2019

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Permafrost peatlands of northern Finland where Carolina Voigt took core samples for her lab experiments.

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For peat's sake! Let's chill out a bit and stop global warming.

19 March 2019

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Monitoring the synthesis of the bacterial cell wall in real time

26 February 2019

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Two specimens – one from 1959-60 (left), the other from 2012-2015 – of the same species of trillium collected at the Mont St-Hilaire nature preserve.

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Nature: It giveth and taketh away

20 February 2019

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(L) A view of Eta Carinae by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 2000. (R) What the star could look like in 2032, when it overshadows its nebula.

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Goodbye to a beauty in the night sky

29 January 2019

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Artist's depiction of the inside of a white dwarf. Credit: Mark A. Garlick, University of Warwick.

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Thousands of stars turning into crystals

9 January 2019

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On March 30, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope will be sent into orbit in search of extraterrestrial life.

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The search for ET

11 December 2018

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AI set to revolutionize analytical chemistry in neuroscience

4 December 2018

Article

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Eyeing AI

3 December 2018

Article

Les efforts des organismes subventionnaires canadiens pour rendre la production scientifique accessible pourraient être améliorés.

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Open-access research publications: Canada is dragging its feet

1 November 2018

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Smell and behaviour: the scents of taking action

29 October 2018

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A view of the St. Lawrence River across farmland on Île d'Orléans.

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When yesterday's agriculture feeds today’s water pollution

9 October 2018

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A size comparison of the Earth, Wolf 503b and Neptune. The color blue for Wolf 503b is imaginary; nothing is yet known about the atmosphere or surface of the planet.

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A new exoplanet is discovered by an international team led by a young master's student

6 September 2018

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A night view of the Mont-Mégantic Observatory.

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Funding for Mont-Mégantic Observatory secured for five years

8 August 2018

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