Featured discoveries
Find out about the remarkable research achievements by our professors and their teams.
Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences
Reducing CO2 emissions with low cost carbon capture technology
Scientists and environmentalists around the world are alarmed by the increasing greenhouse gas emissions arising from human activity.
Physics
Physics
New fiber-optic devices for sensing applications
Professor Xiaoyi Bao’s research has many tangible applications in the area of infrastructure monitoring. With postdoctoral fellow Huibo Fan and collaborator Liang Chen, Prof. Bao recently completed an important study in which she overcame the detection limitations of fiber-optic sensors.
Earth and Environment Sciences
Earth and Environment Sciences
Understanding the role of fluids during slow earthquakes
Over the last 20 years, scientists have discovered and characterized a new type of earthquake called slow earthquakes at subduction zones, where a tectonic plate slides underneath another one.
Biology
Biology
Discovery of a novel sex hormone opens a new area of investigation in biology
While searching for the genes that are fundamental for an animal’s ability to reproduce, Professor Trudeau and his team discovered a new sex hormone.
Mathematics and Statistics
Mathematics and Statistics
Modeling COVID-19 infection and recovery
With the rapid amount of information published daily on the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of how to apply models in a rapidly evolving epidemic becomes paramount.
