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Researchers at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry and Lawson Health Research Institute have shown that vaping has a negative effect on a critical layer in the lungs and may harm lung function.The study, published in the PLOS…

The Government of Canada announced today that Canadensys Aerospace has received a contract to design and build Canada’s first lunar rover, which will be sent to the Moon’s south pole region as early as 2026.Western planetary geologist…

Our changing climate is affecting the timing, location and might of hurricanes, tornadoes and other extreme weather events, and Western University is at the forefront of international research into how to build structures and cities…

The Winchcombe meteorite, a rare carbonaceous meteorite which crashed onto a driveway in Gloucestershire in 2021, has been found to contain extra-terrestrial water and organic compounds that reveal insights into the origin of Earth’s…

Western’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry has received $16 million as part of the new federal Biosciences Research Infrastructure Fund (BRIF) for the expansion of its state-of-the-art biocontainment level 3 (CL3) facility –…

Drylands are experiencing increasingly levels of degradation and desertification, changes that could put already vulnerable populations at greater risk.A research team, including Natasha MacBean, conducted an examination of dryland…

A cosmic drama unfolded over southern Ontario on the night of Friday, Nov. 18, triggering an international collaboration and a meteorite hunt. Just before midnight Eastern time, the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona detected a small object…

A new study co-authored by Western researcher Anna Zajacova shows that racial and ethnic disparities in pain prevalence in the U.S. are far larger than previously realized, with multiracial and Indigenous (Native American/Alaska Native)…

Renowned Western researcher Andrew Nelson studies bioarcheology, in part, because it allows him to understand how people lived thousands of years ago. And while he has traveled the world investigating ancient mummies, his latest adventure…

The department of English and writing studies and Faculty of Arts & Humanities are celebrating 50 years of the Writer-in-Residence program, founded in 1972 to bolster the profile of Canadian literature as a discipline of study at the…