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Imagine a child jumping out in front of your car as you drive down a residential street. Now count to three.That’s how long it could take a self-driving car with insufficient data — confused over whether to brake or swerve — to turn…

When they launched their study, Timothy Caulfield and Marco Zenone could hardly have anticipated how the issue would capture headlines in Alberta.And yet they decided to examine how the common COVID-19 vaccination requirement for organ…

High levels of stigma experienced by some COVID long-haulers are associated with more intense symptoms, reduced physical function and loss of employment due to disability, according to newly published research from a Lancet medical…

University of Alberta president Bill Flanagan is in India this month to promote the university’s research strengths in energy and climate change mitigation, and explore opportunities for further collaboration with India’s top academic…

A unique combination of minerals trapped inside a “superdeep” diamond that originated hundreds of kilometres beneath Earth’s surface sheds new light on plate tectonics, the geological processes that give rise to mountains, oceans and…

The Department of National Defence has awarded a grant to a University of Alberta professor to gauge the extent of white supremacy in the Canadian Armed Forces.Political scientist Andy Knight will assess just how entrenched…

An international team of researchers has found new evidence of a dinosaur eating a mammal.The foot of a small mammal about the size of a mouse was found preserved inside the stomach region of a Microraptor zhaoianus, a small feathered…

Crouching in a farm field one dewy Alberta morning last August, Nicole Barrett was struck by the patchwork of forage plants thriving under her feet.“It looked like you had just walked into a wild meadow,” the second-year University of…

A new online tool to track global progress on tobacco control taps into the management principle that “what gets measured gets done.”The Global Tobacco Control Progress Hub gives an instant visual picture of how 180 countries are…

Since the controversial documentary series Ancient Apocalypse dropped on Netflix last November, academics and journalists around the world have been incensed at its false claims and misinformation.Earlier this month, the Society for…