GIZMODO | Fossil Hunters Found Bones From an Ancient Whale... and Then They Saw the Bite Marks
The research into these bones culminated in a paper published recently in the journal Palaeontologia Electronica: “Shark-cetacean trophic interactions during the late Pliocene in the Central Eastern Pacific (Panama).”
LIFEHACK | How I work - McGill Professor
Dr. Patricia Hewlin, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Associate Professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management, studies organizational diversity and the organizational participation and treatment of minorities. As with so many How I Work subjects, her work has a personal resonance. Dr.
CBC | Deep Roots
Peter Enright, director of McGill University's farm management and technology program, said regardless of the specialization, there has been one major shift between the generations (...) -social networks that are completely transformed.
That’s why farmers "need to be constantly aware of the image of their industry, and they need to be ambassadors."
APTN NATIONAL | Montreal Pride makes space for Two-Spirit representation amid influx of online hate
Amidst scrutiny from racialized and marginalized groups, Fierté Montreal adopted a new mandate in 2019: to diversity and attempt to Indigenize their festival offerings as part of their bid to host World Pride in 2023.
MONTREAL GAZETTE | MUHC superhospital's new single-patient rooms credited for drop in gut infections
Outbreaks of a potentially life-threatening intestinal superbug dropped after the McGill University Health Centre opened its superhospital in 2015 — a dramatic shift attributed to the fact that the modern facilities have exclusively single-patient rooms, a new study has concluded. “The single-patient room experience at the MUHC’s Glen site has many benefits — privacy, confidentiality, comfort, reduced noise, and improved quality of sleep,” Dr.
MONTREAL GAZETTE | ‘Tinder for fintech’: Holt Accelerator gets new crop of startup hopefuls
Montreal’s Holt Accelerator is getting ready to welcome its second crop of startup executives for a 12-week training program aimed at bolstering their management skills and putting their companies on a path to growth. A kickoff event takes place downtown Monday, featuring eight entrepreneurs from five countries pitching their stories to industry experts and investors.
CBC | Canadian astronomers find 8 more mysterious repeating fast radio bursts from space
They're called fast radio bursts, or FRBs, and these odd, fleeting signals from space are shrouded in mystery. But thanks to Canada's largest radio telescope, astrophysicists are discovering more of them in their search to learn what makes these objects tick.
IFLS | Astronomers Have Found An Incredible 8 More Repeating Fast Radio Bursts
"There is definitely a difference between the sources, with some being more prolific than others," physicist Ziggy Pleunis of McGill University told Science Alert. "We already knew from FRB 121102 that the bursts can be very clustered: sometimes the source doesn't burst for hours and hours and then suddenly you get multiple bursts in a short amount of time. We have observed the same thing for FRB 180916.J0158+65, for which we report 10 bursts in this paper."
CBC | Should Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue allow backyard chickens? This group thinks so
A sustainable food group based out of McGill's West Island campus wants Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue to allow residents to raise chickens in their backyard. The group, Mac Regenerative Food Hub, launched a petition Friday, calling on the municipality to legalize small-scale poultry husbandry. So far, more than 50 people have signed the petition. Its stated goal is to have 100 signatures.
PSYCHOLOGY TODAY | Memories Linked to Social Defeat Can Hijack the Hippocampus
Negative memories associated with social defeat are more likely to take hold and "stick" to a web of neurons in some brains than others, according to a new study (Zhang et al., 2019) in mice. This web of neurons is called an "engram."
CTV | McGill doctors get financial boost to combat breast cancer
Two McGill University professors have joined the fight against breast cancer, and are about to get a big injection of funds courtesy of the federal government.
Liberal MP Marc Miller was at McGill's Holmes Hall to announce a $6 million investment for research over the next four years.
MSN | Astronomers Have Detected a Whopping 8 New Repeating Signals From Deep Space
One of the biggest mysteries out there in the Universe is inching closer to answers. An astonishing eight new repeating radio signals known as fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been detected flaring from deep space.
There is definitely a difference between the sources, with some being more prolific than others," physicist Ziggy Pleunis of McGill University told ScienceAlert.
MONTREAL GAZETTE | The Right Chemistry: Good science is no laughing matter
It is certainly true that there have been scientists and physicians who at first were ridiculed and were subsequently recognized as visionaries. There are numerous other examples of scientific ideas that were first opposed then embraced, says Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s Office for Science & Society (mcgill.ca/oss). He hosts The Dr. Joe Show on CJAD Radio 800 AM every Sunday from 3 to 4 p.m.
GLOBAL NEWS | People with strong partisan views get more facts wrong on a current events test
The stronger Canadians’ partisan views are, the more likely they are to choose the wrong answer on a series of factual policy questions, a survey has found.
Respondents were asked a series of neutral, factual questions, such as whether the unemployment rate was higher in 2015 or 2018, or whether the deficit had risen.
SUDBURY STAR | Project imagines mining without the need for blasting
Imagine building a new underground mine — or expanding an existing one — without using explosives.
That’s the goal of a new project unveiled in Sudbury on Wednesday. And while the announcement was made in here, the money — $1.5 million — will go to McGill University of Montreal to test cleaner methods of mining.