Université de Montréal

The day centre at Dans la rue, a community organization that helps unhoused and at-risk youth, is filled with young people and their pets—dogs, cats, even a rat. They have brought their furry friends to receive free medical care from a…

Major funding of $5.6M for the collaborative development of the Canadian Pediatric Imaging Platform (C-PIP) has been awarded to a Canadian research group based across three pediatric hospitals, whose leadership at the CHU Sainte-Justine…

It is well known that adolescents tend to adopt the same behaviours as their peers. As Canadian students spend an average of 923 hours per school year in the company of their classmates, Sandrine Charbonneau wanted to see if there was any…

On Wednesday, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded the Exceptional Public Service Medal to René Doyon, in recognition of his contributions to the James Webb Space Telescope mission. He is the Principal…

This research was carried out as part of the European RHAPSODY project (Risk Assessment and Progression of Diabetes). Funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative, RHAPSODY is a collaborative project involving more than 100 scientists…

Eleven-year-old William has Leber’s congenital amaurosis, a rare hereditary disease that affects the retina and causes vision impairment and even blindness. But there’s hope for William: in May, he received an innovative new treatment…

There’s an intriguing exoplanet out there – 400 light-years out there – that is so tantalising that astronomers have been studying it since its discovery in 2009. One orbit for WASP-18 b around its star that is slightly larger than our…

The Montreal Declaration for a responsible development of artificial intelligence will be the backdrop for a play written and directed by Dominique Leclerc and Patrice Charbonneau-Brunelle. The result of an innovative partnership between…

Through the Gemini-North Telescope in Hawai’i, the chemical composition of WASP-76 b is revealed in unprecedented detail, giving new insights also into the composition of giant planets.Stefan PelletierAn international team led by Stefan…

Long before the invention of agriculture, humans already knew how to process cereals and other wild plants into a flour suitable for food – and now there's new evidence they did so long before scientists was previously thought.Published…