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Université de Montréal Science Complex Holds Opening Ceremony

20 September 2019

Press release

An artistic representation of the exoplanet K2-18b.

Science

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

11 September 2019

Press release

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

Science

Getting the picture on climate change

3 September 2019

Press release

The researchers examined the relationship between the positive parenting of mothers when their child was four years old and the inhibitory control of the child at six years of age to see if they could predict ADHD symptoms at age 7.

Society

Preventing ADHD: positive mothers, well-behaved kids

14 August 2019

Press release

People who suffer a major concussion can lose their sense of smell temporarily and also develop affective problems, such as anxiety and depression. Now scientists have found that's true even for people who get a minor concussion.

Health

Hit your head, lose your sense of smell

23 July 2019

Press release

Children whose parents often get angry at them, spank them, yell at them or shake them as a way to discipline them could be adversely affected right into their teenage years.

Health

'Harsh parenting' might alter kids' brains

16 July 2019

Press release

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

Science

Probing a new class of exoplanets

2 July 2019

Press release

(L-to-R): Salvatore Martire, Giovanni Adamo, Francesco Di Feo.

Culture

Italy: a new view of the old Left

13 June 2019

Article

Université de Montréal was honoured today to welcome 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege to its School of Public Health (ESPUM).

Community

Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Denis Mukwege visits UdeM, signs agreement and picks up degree

7 June 2019

Press release

Tom Mulcair, Sara Teitelbaum and their CERIUM summer school students pose with their hosts in Kahnawà:ke.

Community

Learning which way the wind blows

5 June 2019

Brief

A new study finds that children who engage in organized physical activity at a young age are less likely to have emotional difficulties by the time they turn 12.

Health

Sticking to sports can help kids adjust

4 June 2019

Press release

Health

Coming soon: A home blood test to better monitor chronic illnesses

27 May 2019

Press release

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

Science

Detecting bacteria in space

22 May 2019

Press release

Monique Russier

Health

A molecule that saves lives

16 May 2019

Press release

Gilles Brassard.

Science

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

7 May 2019

Press release

Science

Early spring: Predicting budburst with genetics

7 May 2019

Press release

Society

Women’s labour force transformation dates back to the Great Depression

9 April 2019

Press release

Yoshua Bengio

Science

'The Nobel Prize of computing'

27 March 2019

Press release

Community

Université de Montréal receives NSERC 'CREATE' program funding

20 March 2019

Press release

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

Science

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

19 March 2019

Press release

Henrik Gawkowski, "the trainman of Treblinka," in an outtake from Claude Lanzmann's 1985 film Shoah.

Culture

Famous film, neglected editor

12 March 2019

Article

Society

A television in the bedroom?

7 March 2019

Press release

(L-to-R) Roméo Dallaire, Frédéric Bouchard, Edward Ou Jin Lee, André-Anne Parent, Céline Bellot, Gérard Veilleux, Raymond Lalande, Lisette Jean and Guy Breton.

Community

Better support for people in mourning

5 March 2019

Press release

Society

When being anti-religious isn't racist

26 February 2019

Article

At Université de Montréal, IRIC's researchers had some good news to announce on World Cancer Day.

Health

10 years of research lead the way to more effective treatment of a fatal cancer

22 February 2019

Article

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.

Science

Nature: It giveth and taketh away

20 February 2019

Press release

(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.

Science

Goodbye to a beauty in the night sky

29 January 2019

Press release

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

Science

Thousands of stars turning into crystals

9 January 2019

Press release

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

Science

The search for ET

11 December 2018

Article

Yakov Rabkin

Society

The road to modernity is not a one-way street

10 December 2018

Article

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