Bright warning colours on poison dart frogs also act as camouflage

Published: 4 June 2018

Poison dart frogs are well known for their deadly toxins and bright colours, which have made them a classic example of warning coloration....

Brain genes related to innovation revealed in birds

Published: 14 March 2018

Wild birds that are more clever than others at foraging for food  have different levels of a neurotransmitter receptor that has been linked with intelligence in humans, according to a study led by...

Media advisory: Reaction to the 2018 Federal Budget

Published: 26 February 2018

Will the upcoming federal budget deliver and implement the Naylor report’s recommendations to fund and revitalize fundamental science research in Canada?...

Media advisory: Who Pays for Canada? Taxes and Fairness

Published: 16 February 2018

Are Canadians fair or is that just a story we tell ourselves? Can we reason our way to lessened inequality or are violent cataclysms the only levelling power, as Thomas Piketty and Walter Schiedel...

Unusual lung structures may raise risk of pulmonary disease

Published: 6 February 2018

The internal anatomy of our lungs is surprisingly variable, and some of those variations are associated with a greater risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a new study led by...

McGill research team studies how calcium compounds accumulate in the arteries

Published: 31 January 2018

Team leader Marta Cerruti, using the tools of the Canadian Light Source, has examined the mineralized arteries of genetically modified laboratory mice and found that the pathway in the body that...

Flawed research methods exaggerate the prevalence of depression

Published: 18 January 2018

An over-reliance on self-report screening questionnaires, wherein patients essentially define their own condition, in place of diagnostic interviews conducted by a health care professional, has...

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