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It comes as no surprise that Western music professor adam patrick bell’s office is full of musical instruments, like the mandolin resting on top of an organ, or the electronic drum kit hooked up to headphones so he can play without the…

Growing up in London, Ont., Rachel Yantha has seen first hand the impact of municipal decisions on residents. When an opportunity arose to research a vital civic topic at the mayor’s office, the Master’s in Public Administration (MPA)…

A new study involving researchers at Western University, St. Michael’s Hospital and University of Toronto has found that South Asians with either heart disease or diabetes had fewer vascular regenerative and reparative cells compared…

Small modular reactors (SMRs) are considered the future of nuclear energy because they are smaller and more importantly, safer. Preserving that safety is a key priority for Western researchers Hamidreza Abdolvand and Samantha Gateman.…

Nina Zitani opens a nondescript grey locker to reveal tightly packed drawers. Inside are tens of thousands of bees, butterflies, beetles and insects of all types. Zitani is the curator of Western’s Zoological Collections. She’s the keeper…

In a new report, researchers at Ivey Business School offer evidence-based research, best practices and critical recommendations for farming that supports ecosystems through natural agricultural principles, a method known as…

An international team, including Western astrophysicists Els Peeters and Jan Cami, has found the destruction and re-formation of a large quantity of water in a planet-forming disk located at the heart of the Orion Nebula. This discovery…

A new study shows children living in marginalized communities are at a higher risk of experiencing paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (POHCA) – a rare, life-threatening event occurring outside a hospital setting in which a…

When a star like our Sun reaches the end of its life, it can expand to ingest the surrounding planets and asteroids that were born with it. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) in Chile,…

A new study shows oxygenation levels in the placenta, formed during the last three months of fetal development, are an important predictor of cortical growth (development of the outermost layer of the brain or cerebral cortex) and is…