For McGill families: Fun with Physics — Sink or Float?

Tuesday, June 2, 2020 13:00to14:00

Join student volunteers Alice Curtin and Sabrina Berger from the Physics Matters outreach group as they explore whether some common objects sink or float, and why./scienceCategory: Faculty of Science

Let's Talk Sustainability

Thursday, March 5, 2020

An exciting event for CEGEP and Sec V students interested in sustainablity! Are you excited to learn more about conservation?! We have a fantastic full-day event for you on Mar 5th organized by...

Expert: Earthquakes

Published: 13 January 2020

Early this morning, an earthquake of 4.0 magnitude, was felt in areas from Rigaud to Montreal to Saint-Bruno, and in parts of eastern Ontario, New York state and Vermont as well. (CBC)...

Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity - a global overview

Published: 9 December 2019

Cities and their rising impacts on biodiversity versity. To gain a clearer picture of the situation, an international group of scientists, including Professor Andrew Gonzalez from McGill’s Biology...

As rural China rapidly adopts clean energy, use of traditional wood and coal stoves persists

Published: 5 December 2019

Old habits are hard to break. A McGill-led study of replacement of traditional wood and coal burning stoves with clean energy in China suggests that, without a better understanding of the reasons...

Human song is universal

Published: 21 November 2019

Music, including songs with words, appears to be a universal phenomenon according to a paper published this week in Science. An international team of researchers involving musicians, data...

Science Storytelling Slam

Saturday, November 16, 2019 08:00to11:00

Come join us for a night of science storytelling!   Phi Centre, 407 Rue Saint-Pierre, Montréal, QC, H2Y 2M3, CA/scienceCategory: Faculty of Science

Greater local earthworm diversity in temperate regions than in the tropics

Published: 24 October 2019

Surprisingly, in any single location, there are typically more earthworms and more earthworm species found in temperate regions than in the tropics, according to a study published this week in...

Mapping international drug use by looking at wastewater

Published: 23 October 2019

Wastewater-based epidemiology is a rapidly developing scientific discipline with the potential for monitoring close to real-time, population-level trends in illicit drug use. By sampling a known...

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