Forget about gorging on antioxidant-rich “superfoods.” Mutant roundworms are boring a hole through one of aging’s most enduring concepts.
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Volume 6, Number 1
When older people talk about resting their weary bones, they’re not waxing metaphoric: Decades of movement and support takes a natural toll on our bones — a toll that becomes even more pronounced when pathologies come into play.
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Volume 5, Number 1
Structure is central to all science: proteins and biology, molecules and chemistry, the crystal lattices and physics. But what these structures look like while undergoing crucial transformations—say, during protein function or chemical reactions—is still the stuff of imagination.
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Volume 5, Number 1
We may idealize childhood as a time of purity and innocence, but the bald truth is that most kids learn to lie around age four or five. In playground vernacular, their little pants are very much on figurative fire. And that, says Victoria Talwar, associate professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, is as it should be.
Volume 4, Number 2
McGill neuroscientist Robert Zatorre has a standard answer whenever he’s asked whether there is a musical region to the human brain. “Everything above the neck.”
Volume 4, Number 2
Humans are getting good at reaching outer space. But, like on Earth, we’re lousy at cleaning up after ourselves up there. Law professor Ram Jakhu is helping tame this growing otherworldly problem—before it’s too late.
Volume 4, Number 2
At the International Interdisciplinary Congress on Space Debris, hosted by the McGill Institute of Air and Space Law in May 2009, David Wright from the Union of Concerned Scientists (a global non-profit organization born out of collaboration between MIT students and faculty), recounted some of the biggest bangs in the increasing trend of cosmic collisions.
Volume 1, Number 2
Many of the seemingly harmless products we use in our daily lives have a nasty afterlife as environmental toxins, but civil engineering professor James Nicell is giving nature much-needed reinforcement. An award-winning teacher, researcher and associate member of the inter-faculty McGill School of Environment, Nicell is used to looking at all sides of a problem. [...]
Volume 1, Number 2
By Christine Zeindler Researchers tackle problems caused by a warming Arctic landscape As the country shakes off its white blanket of winter and emerges, blinking and grateful, into the warm sunlight of spring, most Canadians are happy to swap their toques for T-shirts. But while their peers are locating their sunscreen, many researchers at McGill [...]
Volume 1, Number 2
McGill researchers confront the world’s challenge of living with limited resources\ By Mark Reynolds The country has just emerged from the warmest winter on record, according to Environment Canada. With temperatures nearly four degrees above normal averages, it marks the highest temperature spike experienced in any season—spring, fall or summer. Winter 2005–06 joins a parade [...]
