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ANDES, which will be installed on the European Southern Observatory’s Giant Telescope, is a spectrograph that will search for signs of life on Earth-like exoplanets.
Astronomy
Canadian astronomy looks to Europe and invests in the world’s largest telescope
Backed by $22.6 million from Canada, the CFI and three provinces, UdeM is co-leading the Canadian research team helping design the ANDES instrument for the European Extremely Large Telescope.
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A photo montage combining a misty forest with a photo of a Japanese snow monkey, created to give the impression that Bigfoot is wandering through the forest.
Climate change: the Bigfoot connection
Biology • May 13th
The discovery illustrates how compounds present in vanishingly small amounts in nature can have major therapeutic potential.
Using plants to fight Ebola and COVID-19
Viruses • Apr 30th
The formation of leaves in moss and the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana relies on very similar cellular dynamics
We now know how moss leaves grow
Biology • Apr 20th
Jewelweed flowers are generally larger in urban areas.
Flowering in the city: the bumblebee connection
Biology • Apr 20th
Interpretive drawings of Paleocanna tentaculum as living organisms: depiction of individual polyps living in single tubes, as well as clusters of two or three tubes attached together.
Found: a new species of jellyfish, preserved in Paleozoic fossils
Biology • Apr 20th
A male zebra finch
If birds are fancy dancers, are they smarter, too?
Animal • Apr 16th
The number of articles in English increased more than fivefold between 1990 and 2023, rising from approximately 877,000 to nearly 5,000,000. It is the relative share of English that has declined as other scientific communities have gradually begun publishing more in their own languages.
English dominates scholarly publishing, but other languages are gaining ground
Information sciences • Apr 14th
Local Iban partners receiving introductory drone operation training at the Mendaram peat swamp forest in western Brunei, in November 2025.
'The older I get, the more restless I am'
Environment • Mar 31st
A ground squirrel in hibernation
Gut microbes: the secret to squirrel hibernation
Biology • Mar 11th
When current AI systems for detecting fake news flag content as false, they do not verify the facts: they calculate probabilities based on the data with which they have been trained. This is a fundamental misunderstanding, according to Dorsaf Sallami.
Fake news: do the tools meant to protect us actually mask their flaws?
Artificial intelligence • Mar 6th
Residents of Ucanal enjoyed water free of biological contaminants for nearly 1,500 years.
The Maya engineering paradox: masters of water, prisoners of mercury
Biochemistry • Mar 3rd
Top left: This view of the zebrafish ventricle reveals the emergence of future coronary vessels, made visible through two fluorescent lines that label endothelial cells as they form. Bottom left: Using different fluorescent markers, this image simultaneously shows nascent coronary vessels, cardiomyocytes, and proliferating cells, illustrating the synchronized growth of the vascular network and the cardiac muscle. Bottom right: This view highlights the parallel progression of the developing coronary vessels and the growing cardiac muscle tissue, each marked with a distinct fluorescent color that allows their coordinated maturation to be followed.
Mapping a fish's developing heart
Cardiology • Feb 27th
A Japanese beetle on a marigold
Collateral damage: Japanese beetle traps snare nature’s helpers
Natural sciences • Feb 24th
Biodiversity is under serious threat in Colombia's tropical dry forest
Biodiversity at risk in Colombia’s tropical dry forests
Biology • Feb 24th
Illustration of the transverse drift quantified with photons
A luminous breakthrough for quantum photonics
Physics • Feb 23rd
A: Geographic location of Arene Candide in northern Italy, with the Liguria region highlighted in red. B: Zenithal view of the “Il Principe” burial, as displayed at the Museo di Archeologia Ligure, Genova Pegli. The photogrammetric model was created for this study. C: a view of the eastern hall of Arene Candide Cave.
Mauled by a bear, 27,500 years ago
Anthropology • Feb 9th
The redox flow battery, powered by the AzoBiPy molecule, could allow electricity from intermittent sources, such as wind farms and solar panels, to be stored for several months.
Saving sunny days for a rainy day: a new molecule for storing green energy
Chemistry • Feb 4th
Some AI models surpass the average creative performance observed in humans in divergent linguistic creativity tasks.
Creative talent: has AI knocked humans out?
Artificial intelligence • Jan 21st
A Buddhist monk from the Thai forest tradition in a magnetoencephalography (MEG) facility. This image was created using a generative artificial intelligence program for illustrative purposes.
Meditation doesn’t rest the brain, it reshapes it
Neuroscience • Jan 5th
An artistic representation of hazy exoplanet LP 791-18 c.
Webb reveals a hazy world that shows not all planet twins are identical
Astronomy • Dec 12th
This artistic representation of exoplanet WASP-121 b shows its impressive double helium tail spanning nearly 60% of its orbit around its parent star.
Webb telescope reveals double helium tails escaping from a “hot Jupiter”
Astronomy • Dec 8th
In occupational psychology, goal-blocking is defined as the perception that managers have that something is preventing them from achieving their leadership objectives, and not the achievement of personal goals.
Blocked goals can make managers toxic
Labour • Dec 2nd
The researcher noted that AI relies on more subtle cues than those an average user could detect.
AI vs. online scams: a 5-second diagnostic
Artificial intelligence • Nov 21st
Arabidopsis thaliana is a popular model organism in plant biology and genetics.
How do plants know how large to grow?
Biology • Nov 10th
The study explores the toolmaking skills of young chimpanzees at the Ngogo research site. In the photo, Freddie, a five-year-old chimpanzee, manipulates a branch.
The kids are smarter than you think
Anthropology • Nov 4th
Belém, a city at the estuary of the Tocantins and Pará rivers, in northern Brazil.
COP 30: meet our experts
Climate change • Nov 3rd
Electric vehicles could strain Quebec's power grid
Energy • Oct 30th
In this illustration, an asteroid (bottom left) breaks apart under the powerful gravity of LSPM J0207+3331, the oldest, coldest white dwarf known to be surrounded by a ring of dusty debris. Scientists think the system’s infrared signal is best explained by two distinct rings composed of dust supplied by crumbling asteroids.
A dead star reveals the swallowed remains of its planetary system
Astronomy • Oct 23rd
The vegetated littoral zone of lake Ånnsjön, in Sweden
The “coastline” of lakes: a key part of the global carbon cycle
Environment • Oct 21st

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