Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s that special time of year where we convince ourselves that we’ll hit every single deadline, stay on top of our schedules, and ace all ours midterms/exams.
Science & Tech
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn case you missed the unveiling of the GGR-22, here’s a recap of what’s new and what to expect as the team prepares for the 2022 racing season.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe researchers observed improvement in cardiac function and electrical signal conduction in the mice that were given the spray, and the results were able to be replicated in repeated experiments.
Reading Time: 4 minutesRainbow trout pairing provides an ideal model to measure protein and glucose metabolism as well as the stress response itself.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“We recognize that all people should be afforded equal access to medical equipment to ensure they can live with the best quality of life possible, irrespective of their background or socioeconomic status,”said Emma Grigor.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe bison have been experiencing a change in their habitat, the shallow lakes whose shores they depend on for their nutrition have been expanding, making the habitat unfit for the Mackenzie herd.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThere’s a causal mechanism happening during hibernation which would result in faster ageing occurring at the DNA level during active periods and a plateau or slower ageing during the hibernating months.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“If all of the smokers in the world stopped smoking, it would have the same effect as everywhere in the world having the same particulate concentration levels as we have here in Canada,” said U of O professor Rick Burnett.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“More toxic doesn’t mean the other one’s not toxic. So at environmental levels, the chemicals in the Alberta oil sands would cause similar problems. These are not safe chemicals by any imagination. They’re just less toxic than the other ones,” said U of O professor Vance Trudeau.
Reading Time: 4 minutesScientific illustration work truly excites Julius Csotonyi and Juliana Spahr, and gives them the space to wholeheartedly love what they do.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“I’m not sure there’s such a thing as always adaptive and always maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. And I think that’s probably too simplistic or reductive, right. We need to be picking what works in the moment,” said U of O researcher Allison Ouimet.
Reading Time: 5 minutesResearcher Sebastian Echeverri describes their courtship as a musical show which includes both a song and dance that are coordinated together. Like any good show, they build tension throughout and leave the best performance for last.
Reading Time: 4 minutesRove beetles happen to be the largest group of animals that exist however, they remain as one the most understudied.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis finding disrupts any preconceived notions that Pleistocene wolves were located at bottom of the carnivore levels.
Reading Time: 4 minutes“These species have inherent value on their own, what is the right of us to wipe out a species from the face of the planet? You know, call me a softy. But I don’t think we do have that right to extinguish a species just because someone will make a buck from it,” said conservation biologist Cory Toth.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt its core, TSOS is a student-led podcast which has covered topics about life in space, student experiences in the space industry, and interviews from industry experts. It’s components include individuals involved in research, editors, marketing and of course its hosts
Reading Time: 3 minutes“You have to invest in yourself and your dreams. I bet on myself and turned down a good job and decided to do my PhD in a field I was studying. We have to make those kinds of decisions, my advice is to go for it. If you have a dream you have to put your heart into it,” said Farah Alibay, a current NASA engineer
Reading Time: 3 minutes“There’s already so much research on bees and butterflies, which is a good thing but I think it’s also a good thing to study under underrepresented groups,” said U of O PhD candidate Catherine Sirois-Delisle.
Reading Time: 4 minutesRetrogressive thaw slumps (RTS) occurring in the arctic are largely at the mercy of changing summer climates
Reading Time: 4 minutes“Being in Sandy Hill comes with the university, but it also comes with the local residents as well,” said Collective Growers co-founder, Karen Nguyen.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“If people want to be happy, they’ll need to have good relationships in the real world as well,” said U of O professor Wonsook Lee
Reading Time: 4 minutesU of O professor Andra Smith has published a study looking into the impacts of early oral contraceptive use on brain development, structure, and function in users
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis week Pamenter interviewed with the Fulcrum to explain the mechanism that describes how mole rats decrease their body temperature in hypoxia
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn Canada there are 16 owl species out of 200 worldwide, some key characteristics are their large heads, round eyes fixed at the front, acute hearing ability, and specialized feathers.
Reading Time: 4 minutesMallon discusses what to expect at a dig, dino myths and why dinos were so big Jordan Mallon is a research scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature here in Ottawa. He mainly studies horned dinosaur evolution and dinosaur paleoecology which is the study of past ecology. This week Mallon interviewed with the Fulcrum to …
