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The climate change blogosphere is polarized, with on one side ‘the climate mainstream’ and on the other side ‘climate sceptics’. While it is difficult to quantify the impact, the climate change blogosphere has played a significant role in…

Wageningen University & Research is investigating whether waste streams, which are currently barely used, may serve as feed for the breeding of insects. The study is a public-private initiative. The organic waste streams consist of…

The lab of Kristina Djinovic-Carugo and their collaborators report the first structure of FATZ-1 in complex with a-actinin, two important proteins found in the Z-disc of muscle fibers. The Z-disc is a supramolecular structure that anchors…

A long-standing partnership to provide quality education, training and research to the Métis people of Alberta is being renewed and celebrated by the University of Alberta, the Métis Nation of Alberta (MNA) and the Rupertsland Institute…

Reneltta Arluk admits being the first Indigenous woman to graduate from the University of Alberta’s BFA acting program in 2005 was a hard-won distinction.In a moment of frank disclosure, Arluk recalls confronting no small measure of…

N. Geoffrey Parker, Distinguished University Professor and Andreas Dorpalen Professor of European History, is the 2021 recipient of The Ohio State University Joseph Sullivant Medal.The Sullivant Medal is awarded once every five years as a…

If you’ve watched a slasher movie, you’ve probably been exposed to the final girl trope – a closing scene of a white, suburban teenage girl who triumphed over a threatening monster and lived to tell the tale.But her story doesn’t stop…

Mathematical model makes it possible to design future loudspeakers with a shape and in a material which significantly improve sound quality and which design engineers would hardly have come up with on their own.A recently completed…

Damage to the microbiome caused by malnutrition is transmitted from mothers to newborns and has lifelong consequences for their physical and intellectual development.Infant malnutrition damages the composition of intestinal bacteria, the…

A UNIGE team has found that a class of drugs can protect the development of intellectual abilities in people at risk of psychosis, if prescribed before adolescence.The frontal lobe and hippocampus (purple) are among the areas most…