Featured discoveries

Scientists and environmentalists around the world are alarmed by the increasing greenhouse gas emissions arising from human activity.

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.

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.

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.

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.