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鶹ýվ meteorology professorJohn Gyakum, along with the revered late Massachusetts Institute of Technology meteorologist Fred Sanders,first coined the term in a paper they published in 1980.They used the phrase to describe powerful cyclones that get their energy from rapid drops in pressure caused by hot and cold temperatures colliding.

"If the term itself — ‘bomb’ — helps to spur more constructive research, then I’m happy."―John Gyakum

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Published on: 4 Jan 2018

Excerpt fromMerve Emre's new book,Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America. She is an assistant professor of English at 鶹ýվ.

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Published on: 4 Jan 2018

That could mean the jets of high-speed radiation sent out by the explosion were not aimed directly at Earth, and were instead slightly off axis, saysDaryl Haggardof 鶹ýվ, whose team used theChandra X-ray Observatoryto spy on the merger.

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Published on: 21 Dec 2017

Minister of Finance Bill Morneau, Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan and 鶹ýվ’s Martha Crago attend a prebudget discussion with scientists and researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on Dec. 15, 2017.

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Published on: 19 Dec 2017

As a consequence, researchers such as Abhishek Gupta are trying to help Montreal lead the world in ensuring AI is developed responsibly. "The spotlight of the world is on (Montreal)," said Gupta, an AI ethics researcher at 鶹ýվ who is also a software developer in cybersecurity at Ericsson. His bi-monthly "AI ethics meet-up" brings together people from around the city who want to influence the way researchers are thinking about machine-learning.

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Published on: 18 Dec 2017

"To some extent, it is beyond the control of world leaders, and has more to do with the cycle of protest," saysRex Brynen, a political science professor at鶹ýվwhose work focuses on the conflict. "Most Western leaders will be trying to calm things. The Palestine Authority, although deeply dismayed by the U.S. decision, has no interest in protests getting out of hand. Nor does Jordan. However, some in the region—President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey, for example, or Hamas, or Hizbullah—will be trying to build on popular anger, however."

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Published on: 14 Dec 2017

Ask Montreal pain specialist Yoram Shir about the deadly opioid crisis ravaging North America, and he immediately calls for perspective on the rivers of narcotic pills running into so many homes. Nothing here is black or white, says Shir, director of the 鶹ýվ Health Centre’s Alan Edwards Pain Management Unit, starting with the ubiquitous nature of pain. One in four people suffers from chronic pain — a condition that is arduously resistant to therapy. But the best painkiller in the medicine cabinet risks turning the patient into a drug-abusing addict.

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Published on: 13 Dec 2017

Article byDaniel Plourde,Bioresource Engineering undergraduate at 鶹ýվ.

With the ski season rapidly approaching, many resorts across Canada are beginning to prepare to make artificial snow, a process that has become an annual tradition. Although snow-making has been used extensively since the early 1970s, we now see it used more and more because of climate change and declining annual snow cover across the nation. In fact, according toStatistics Canada, the mean annual snow cover in Canada declined by 5.1 per cent from 1972 to 2010.

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Published on: 12 Dec 2017

Mr. Morneau has faced criticism this fall from business groups over proposed small-business tax changes set to take effect Jan. 1, and the government s appetite for undertaking further tax changes is unclear. Council member Christopher Ragan, a 鶹ýվ economics professor, said the group didn't discuss political challenges the Liberals may face in following its advice. "We don t care about the politics," he said. "Is this minister going to take it on? We'll have to wait and see. … I think he would because it s a good thing to do."

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Published on: 11 Dec 2017

In the past two decades, some two dozen new city projects were announced in the Middle East. About half remain “power point cities” existing only on websites, said Sarah Moser, an urban geography professor at 鶹ýվ in Montreal. Others are well behind schedule.

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Published on: 8 Dec 2017

The next time you go in for a medical checkup, your doctor will probably make a mistake that could endanger your life, contends cardiologist Allan Sniderman of 鶹ýվ in Montreal, Canada. Most physicians order what he considers the wrong test to gauge heart disease risk: a standard cholesterol readout, which may indicate levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) or non-high density lipoprotein (non-HDL) cholesterol. What they should request instead, Sniderman argues, is an inexpensive assay for a blood protein known as apolipoprotein B (apoB).

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Published on: 7 Dec 2017

Ashesh Mukherjee is trying something new this holiday season. At a time of year when excessive shopping has become the norm, he plans to volunteer with a charitable organization that works with people in need. It's more than just a way to give back to his Montreal community. Dr. Mukherjee, associate professor of marketing at 鶹ýվ's Desautels Faculty of Management, sees volunteering as an important way to recharge and reconsider what is important in a fast-paced digital age.

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Published on: 6 Dec 2017

In the experiment, just 0.1 percent of the total phages made it through. But based on their rate of travel, and the staggering number of them in the average human gut, the team estimated that our gut cells absorb around 31 billion phages every day. “The percentage feels like it can’t be that important but when you turn that percentage into absolute numbers, it feels biologically relevant,” saysCorinne Mauricefrom 鶹ýվ, who also studies phages and was not involved in this study.

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Published on: 5 Dec 2017

Excerpt from Merve Emre's new book, Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America. She is an assistant professor of English at 鶹ýվ.

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Published on: 4 Dec 2017

John Sakata discusses his research on.

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Published on: 4 Dec 2017

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