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Canada’s carbon-capturing natural areas can play a small — but effective — part in the country’s overall strategy to lower greenhouse gas emissions, according to a report that includes two University of Alberta experts.The report shows…

As many of Africa’s societies were trampled by colonization, its traditional thought systems were also caught underfoot and eroded along the way. Now, a new University of Alberta scholar is working to help remedy that loss by helping…

Researchers at the University of Alberta are using a form of artificial intelligence to help doctors better predict which patients are at risk of adverse outcomes from opioid prescriptions. In newly published research, the collaborative…

University of Alberta neuroscientist Anastassia Voronova, assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry and Canada Research Chair in Neural Stem Cell Biology, has been awarded a prestigious 2023 Sloan Research Fellowship.…

Nigeria captured global headlines when Shell Oil faced accusations of environmental devastation in the Niger Delta in the early 1990s, as well as complicity in acts of mass killings, rapes and the torching of villages by the Nigerian…

When it comes to children’s participation in any kind of sport, parents play a huge role. They do everything from driving their children to practices and games to ensuring they’re well fuelled and have the proper gear. The realities of…

Working as a summer student years ago, Paula Marentette was eager to help when her boss handed her an extra assignment to analyze some data, looking for trends. Bolstered by two years of university statistics courses, Marentette felt…

Scientific claims that babies harbour bacteria while still in the womb are inaccurate, according to University of Alberta researchers involved in an international study.The perspective paper, published in Nature, should settle a debate in…

An Indigenous couple looks out from a photograph taken decades ago — their image telling a multitude of stories. Elders and Indigenous knowledge keepers who looked at the photo pointed out that the woman is wearing a ribbon skirt, the man…

Researchers are investigating how disease-causing fungi become resistant to antifungal drugs to help prevent potentially devastating consequences of the growing resistance harmful microbes are developing to drugs.“Antimicrobial drugs are…