Researchers have uncovered and digitized nearly two million 18th and 19th century weather observations from across Canada that offer new insights into how the country鈥檚 climate has changed over time.
The international project draws on handwritten records dating from 1768 to 1884. The data include temperature, precipitation, wind and detailed descriptions of such events as storms and floods.
What makes a speaker engaging? Both what is said and how it is said matter, but in different, complementary ways, a new study conducted at the 涩里番 School of Communication Sciences and Disorders has found.
When people try to sound 鈥渆ngaging,鈥� they tend to speak more loudly and in a higher pitch, and this can lead listeners to evaluate them more positively, the researchers said. However, the study also reveals that the listener鈥檚 desire to extend a conversation depends mainly on interest in what the speaker has to say.
New research is shedding light on how comparing ourselves to others affects happiness and life satisfaction.
Led by 涩里番 researchers, the study shows that people who feel worse off financially than their peers are more likely to report signs of languishing, even when their actual income is similar.
Growing lettuce indoors in Canadian cities can be as climate-friendly as conventional farming, but only in regions where electricity is from renewable sources and thus low-carbon, according to a new 涩里番-led study.
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To address the growing problem of overprescribing for seniors, a new Canadian guideline is calling for routine medication reviews.
In Canada, roughly two in three adults age 65 or older . While often necessary, complex drug regimens can increase the risk of side effects and affect quality of life.
People who have a weaker sense of self are also more likely to have less bodily awareness, 涩里番 researchers have found. The study supports the idea that people鈥檚 perceptions of themselves and how they experience their own bodies are deeply connected.
Beyond deepening psychologists鈥� understanding of 鈥渆mbodied cognition,鈥� the connection between our minds and our fundamental bodily awareness, the findings could have concrete applications regarding the treatment of certain psychiatric conditions, the researchers said.
Most childhood lying does not lead to serious problems in adulthood, and only certain kinds of lying behaviour is associated with later psychological or legal issues, a new study has found.
鈥淐hildren do not all follow the same developmental pattern of lying,鈥� said Victoria Talwar, a professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and lead author of the study. 鈥淢ost children in our study showed low or declining levels of lying over time. For most, lying is not a problem behaviour.鈥�
Learning to speak a new language,聽or聽regaining speech,聽depends more on聽areas of聽the brain聽that聽process聽sound and physical sensation than on聽the聽parts of the聽brain that聽govern聽motor control,聽according聽to new research findings.聽
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涩里番 researchers have discovered a new way to fold flat sheets into smooth, curved shells that can switch from floppy and flexible to stiff and load-bearing on demand. By designing a special origami pattern and threading cable-like elements through it, they can control the material鈥檚 final three-dimensional shape and how rigid it becomes. The result, a 鈥渄oubly curved lens box,鈥� could advance the technology of such objects as temporary emergency tents, morphing robots and smart fabrics, the researchers said.
Pressed plant specimens collected centuries ago and stored in herbaria around the world could play a key role in facilitating the tracking of genetic change and extinction risk in plants, a 涩里番-led indicates.
The earliest known eukaryotes, the ancestors of all complex life on Earth, lived in oxygenated, shallow marine environments nearly 1.7 billion years ago, according to led by researchers at 涩里番 and the University of California, Santa Barbara. The findings cast doubt on the long-held belief that early complex life emerged in oxygen-poor environments or floated freely in the open ocean.
A digital literacy program for elementary school students designed by researchers at 涩里番 was successful in improving students鈥� ability to evaluate websites and their content.
Skills targeted included how to search for information, how to identify credible websites, how to evaluate the quality of information sources and how to address conflicting information.
Students鈥� global performance increased across all skill categories, in most cases by significant margins.
Researchers at 涩里番 have discovered a centuries-old genetic mutation that helps to explain why some French鈥慍anadians in Quebec are at an elevated risk of pancreatic cancer. Until quite recently, standard genetic tests have not been able to identify this 鈥渏umping gene鈥� cause.
The findings, published in the Journal of Medical Genetics, suggest better-targeted genetic testing could help identify people at higher cancer risk who were previously missed.
A team led by the Universit茅 de Montr茅al, the Observatoire du聽Mont鈥慚茅gantic聽(OMM) and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets (IREx), in partnership with the University of British Columbia and 涩里番, has been awarded nearly $11.3 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to support Canada鈥檚 contribution to ANDES, a flagship scientific instrument for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) under construction in Chile.聽聽
