$1.2 M for McGill from CFI John R. Evans Leaders Fund

Published: 15 April 2016

McGill Newsroom To support six research projects in fields from neuroscience to food safety and Arctic ecosystems

Fast track control accelerates switching of quantum bits

Published: 15 December 2016

From laptops to cellphones, today’s technology advances through the ever-increasing speed at which electric charges are directed through circuits. Similarly, speeding up control over quantum states...

From backyard pool chemical to nanomaterial

Published: 1 March 2016

By Chris Chipello, McGill Newsroom Could a cheap molecule used to disinfect swimming pools provide the key to creating a new form of DNA nanomaterials?

Human sounds convey emotions better than words do

Published: 18 January 2016

By Katherine Gombay, McGill Newsroom Brain uses “older” systems/structures to preferentially process emotion expressed through vocalizations

Podcast: Pedro Valdes-Sosa

Published: 2 June 2016

By the Media Relations Office, McGill Newsroom...

A more sustainable way to refine metals

Published: 7 June 2017

A team of chemists in Canada has developed a way to process metals without using toxic solvents and reagents. The system, which also consumes far less energy than conventional techniques, could...

Alzheimer’s disease : It takes two (proteins) to tango

Published: 20 April 2016

For years, neuroscientists have puzzled over how two abnormal proteins, called amyloid and tau, accumulate in the brain and damage it to cause Alzheimer's disease (AD). Which one is the driving...

Homing in on source of mysterious cosmic radio bursts

Published: 4 January 2017

Astronomers have pinpointed for the first time the home galaxy of a Fast Radio Burst, moving scientists a step closer to detecting what causes these powerful but fleeting pulses of radio waves....

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