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Left photo: mycorrhizal root showing intra-root vesicles and hyphae; top right photo: extracted hyphae and spores; bottom right photo: mycorrhizal fungal spore

Science

Plants, fungi and bacteria working together

15 April 2025

Article

It's the first time that scientists have successfully reverse-engineered the physical properties of cells located deep within a plant organ based on experimental data.

Science

Hidden forces shape plants from the inside out

1 April 2025

Press release

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.

Science

She's better at making her bed

7 March 2025

Press release

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

Science

Some fish adapt faster than others to changes in water temperature

14 February 2025

Article

Red fronted lemur (Eulemur rufifrons)

Science

Why are lemurs nearly extinct, and yet so diverse?

7 January 2025

Press release

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.

Science

Restoring peatlands to their (almost) natural state

28 November 2024

Article

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

Science

Animals that can cheat death

30 October 2024

Article

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.

Science

Insect invasions: Why we must act responsibly and act now

18 October 2024

Article

Marc-André Legault

Health

Marc-André Legault: Optimizing drug therapy with bioinformatics

11 October 2024

Article

An infested specimen

Science

How do parasitic worms affect the oxygen uptake of sunfish?

25 July 2024

Article

Distemper struck Berlin's urban red fox population between 2008 and 2013.

Science

Monitor virus progression based on cases of distemper in foxes

3 July 2024

Article

Phage-inducible chromosomal minimalist islands (PICMIs) are changing the way scientists think about life in the ocean.

Health

Tiny hitchhikers: scientists uncover new "mini-satellites" in sea bacteria

24 January 2024

Article

The results indicate that de-icing salt does not impair the resilience of the three native plant species or reduce their ability to absorb contaminants.

Science

Bioretention plants not impaired by road salt

22 January 2024

Article

Lake Pulse Network (Blue, Red, Green and Purple teams); from upper to lower and left to right low impacted lakes from Semi-Arid Plateaux, Taiga Plains, Pacific Maritime, Boreal Shield, Mixed Wood Plain, Taiga Cordillera, Montagne Cordillera, Boreal Plain, Boreal Cordillera

Science

Mapping the health of Canada's lakes

20 November 2023

Article

Frédérique Le Roux

Community

How do we minimize the use of antibiotics?

16 November 2023

Article

Science

Shedding new light on sugars, the “dark matter” of cellular biology

13 November 2023

Press release

Animal migration is decreasing globally due to climate change and the destruction of many natural environments.

Science

Modelling the dynamics of animal migration and parasitic infection

10 November 2023

Article

Maeva Perez has elucidated how marine worms genetically manage to adapt to extreme deep-sea conditions.

Science

How do marine worms adapt to deep-sea conditions?

11 October 2023

Article

Science

Bees around the apple trees

2 October 2023

Article

Science

Lake water quality at risk

30 August 2023

Article

Graphic representation of the DNA sequence

Science

Hidden gene pokes holes in preconceptions

11 July 2023

Article

Science

Aquatic grasslands are in decline, but they can be saved

14 February 2023

Article

Community

Shedding light on how plants function

7 February 2023

Press release

Science

Eleven Quebec universities unite for biodiversity

8 December 2022

Press release

Image 3D d'un croisement entre Rhytidophyllum auriculatum et Rhytidophyllum vernicosum

Science

The three dimensions of a flower

7 December 2022

Press release

Science

COP 15 on biodiversity: meet our experts

21 October 2022

Press release

Two undergraduate researchers at University of Minnesota measuring a reflectance spectrum on a pressed leaf.

Science

A new window into plants of the past

28 September 2022

Press release

Science

Fighting climate change with deep-sea water

13 July 2022

Press release

Science

Using native plants to filter a ubiquitous water contaminant

28 June 2022

Article

Science

Cooperative molecular networks may have been the spark of life on other planets

13 May 2022

Article

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