A discovery with gigANTic implications
Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 11:13 amA McGill research team led by evolutionary biologist Ehab Abouheif has learned how to transform humble little ants into hulking super soldiers with giant heads.
What big teeth you have, Fido
Posted on Thursday, December 15, 2011 at 11:36 amMcGill’s Hans Larsson was part of a research team that found the remains of a very peculiar-looking prehistoric crocodile that walked like a dog and ate with teeth like those of a sabre-toothed tiger.
Stress and the city
Posted on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 11:33 amDo you find city living stressful? According to a research team that included McGill’s Jens Pruessner, you have good cause. Living in the city can affect your brain in measurable ways.
Rich man, poor man, sick man
Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 12:55 pmThere is a widening gap between the rich and the poor in Canada, and the news just got worse for those who get by with less. Research led by Nancy Ross, an associate professor of geography, shows that there is also a gap in health-related quality of life: poorer and less educated Canadians can count [...]
Northern cuisine
Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 12:14 pmEating healthy food is a challenge for everyone in our fast food world. But eating well is even more difficult for the Inuit, according to a new study by McGill researchers. “Inuit, in particular, experience the highest documented prevalence of food insecurity for indigenous peoples in North America,” states the study led by associate professor [...]
In defence of religion
Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 12:00 pmby Mark Reynolds In the 10 years since the September 11 attacks, the mainstream consensus has come to define religion by its most extreme and violent adherents. Osama bin Laden’s scriptural interpretations were accepted by many in the Western media as being authoritative, while reporters covering last year’s burning of a Koran by a fringe-dwelling [...]
Hip-hop high school
Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 11:54 amMany words—not all of them complimentary—have been used to describe hip-hop. But in its 30-plus years of existence, the Bronx-bred art form, though a dominant cultural force, has seldom been called “pedagogically exciting.” Bronwen Low, an associate professor in the Faculty of Education, aims to change that. In 2002, Low embarked on a study that [...]
A quantum leap for research
Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 at 11:49 amYou thought your shiny new laptop was fast? Meet Guillimin, McGill’s new supercomputer, an $8.3-million dream machine for university researchers, who get to put Guillimin’s enormous memory to work on everything from astrophysics to neuroscience. “It’s a lot of computing power,” says Sangyong Jeon, director of CLUMEQ, the supercomputer-based consortium that brings together McGill, Université [...]
On the hunt for better CF treatments
Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2011 at 6:16 pmOne in every 3,600 children born in Canada has cystic fibrosis. A new McGill research centre is trying to get a better handle on how the disease operates with an eye to developing new treatments.
The mighty (and mightily underappreciated) mangrove
Posted on Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 3:27 pmGail Chmura‘s work points to mangrove swamps playing an invaluable role as carbon sinks in our ever warming world.
