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Recognizing the mental health benefits of nature and building on the foundation of her doctoral work at the University of Ottawa – which focused on the intersections of citizenship education and arts-based education – Joan Harrison, a part-time professor in the Faculty of Education, decided, with the help of education students and a grant from NatureHood Canada, to launch a nature-based after-scho...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform how science and engineering is conducted and funded in Canada, bringing both tremendous opportunities and risks, according to a new expert panel report from the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA). AI has the potential to spur innovation and further scientific understanding beyond the limits of human abilities but could also deepen existing inequ...

Our U.S. neighbours have been lamenting the dissolution of their shared sense of reality for years. The trucker convoys that overtook Ottawa and several other Canadian cities this winter appear to have ushered in similar anxieties on this side of the border.

Scientists play a vital role in helping us understand the way the world works and in finding solutions to address society’s various pressing problems.

Mathematical models can project the progression of infectious diseases and help predict the likely outcome of an epidemic.

Communicating science to the public in an accessible manner is one of the most important tasks of an academic scientist.

Two words: edible vaccines. They may seem like a pipe dream, but Department of Biology Professor Allyson MacLean and undergraduate researcher Monique Power have accomplished the first steps in bringing an edible vaccine to life … using the humble lettuce!

Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts — the most efficient known — accelerating biochemical reactions in all forms of life. Due to their high catalytic efficiency and biodegradability, enzymes are used to accelerate reactions in a wide range of industrial processes such as pharmaceutical synthesis and food processing.

Archeologists and other scientists sometimes have to seriate data, i.e., arrange the data in a sequence according to prescribed criteria.

Light is a critical part of our world. Many devices, biological or manufactured, capture light for a variety of purposes, for example photography.