Federal government announces 17 Canada Research Chairs for McGill

Published: 12 January 2022

Plastics, textiles, and electronics have revolutionized our modern world, but their massive production has led to the accumulation of non-biodegradable and toxic wastes. This is a problem McGill...

CFI invests $3.9 M in McGill research

Published: 11 August 2021

McGill’s researchers will soon acquire the highly specialized tools they need to innovate in their fields thanks to funding from the Government of Canada through the Canada Foundation for...

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Happiness really does come for free

Published: 8 February 2021

Economic growth is often prescribed as a sure way of increasing the well-being of people in low-income countries, but a study led by McGill and the Institute of Environmental Sciences and...

Identifying Canada’s key conservation hot spots highlights problem

Published: 5 January 2021

To stop biodiversity loss, Canada recently committed to protecting 30% of its land and sea by 2030. But making conservation decisions about where to locate new protected areas is complicated. It...

Methane emissions from abandoned oil and gas wells underestimated

Published: 20 January 2021

Bubbles of methane gas in water around an unplugged oil/gas well in Pennsylvania. CREDIT: Mary Kang

LSD may offer viable treatment for certain mental disorders

Published: 26 January 2021

Researchers from McGill University have discovered, for the first time, one of the possible mechanisms that contributes to the ability of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) to increase social...

Discovery of new praying mantis species from the time of the dinosaurs

Published: 19 January 2021

Artist’s interpretation of Labradormantis guilbaulti in liftoff among the leaves of a sycamore tree, Labrador, around 100 million years ago. The interpretation is based on fossils (for the wings)...

Well-built muscles underlie athletic performance in birds

Published: 15 January 2021

Muscle structure and body size predict the athletic performance of Olympic athletes, such as sprinters. The same, it appears, is true of wild seabirds that can commute hundreds of kilometres a day...

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