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Experts: Hurricane Melissa

Published: 28 October 2025

Hurricane Melissa, now a Category Five tropical cyclone, has made landfall in Jamaica. It is the strongest storm to hit the island country in at least 150 years and the most powerful recorded...

Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ team discovers Canada’s first dinosaur-era dragonfly fossil 

Published: 14 August 2025

In a first for Canadian paleontology, a Cretaceous fossilized dragonfly wing, uncovered in Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park, has been identified as a new species. It’s also the first known...

Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ physicists manoeuvre DNA molecules using electrical fields

Published: 2 October 2025

Researchers in Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾â€™s Department of Physics have developed a new device that can trap and study DNA molecules without touching or damaging them. The device, which uses carefully tuned electric...

Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ team pinpoints where a type of cell death begins

Published: 22 October 2025

A team at Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ studying ferroptosis, a form of cell death, have discovered that the process begins deep inside the cell, a finding that could lead to new treatments for cancer and...

Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ research flags Montreal snow dump, inactive landfills as major methane polluters

Published: 16 October 2025

Montreal’s methane emissions are unevenly distributed across the island, with the highest concentrations in the city’s east end, Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ researchers have found. The worst polluters include the city...

Study finds Montreal cycling infrastructure doesn’t match demand

Published: 18 August 2025

Bike lanes, BIXI stations and other micromobility infrastructure make up just two per cent of Montreal’s street space – even in neighbourhoods where cycling demand would justify more – according to...

Millions of buildings at risk from sea level rise, Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾-led study finds

Published: 3 October 2025

Sea level rise could put more than 100 million buildings across the Global South at risk of regular flooding if fossil fuel emissions are not curbed quickly, according to a new Âé¶¹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾-led study...

Experts: Social prescribing

Published: 3 November 2025

As part of a new partnership with the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (MSO), member doctors of Médecins francophones du Canada can now prescribe tickets to live performances.  

Expert: Ocean floor temperature increases

Published: 1 October 2025

The 2025 Ocean State Report from the Copernicus Marine Service, a European Union ocean monitoring organization, has found that sea floor temperatures off the coast of Nova Scotia have risen at...

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