/newsroom/taxonomy/term/2638/all en /newsroom/channels/news/flatworm-inspired-medical-adhesives-stop-blood-loss-342730 <p>Every year around 2 million people die worldwide from hemorrhaging or blood loss. Uncontrolled hemorrhaging accounts for more than 30% of trauma deaths. To stop the bleeding, doctors often apply pressure to the wound and seal the site with medical glue. But what happens when applying pressure is difficult or could make things worse? Or the surface of the wound is too bloody for glue? Drawing inspiration from nature, researchers from ƻ����Ժ have developed a medical adhesive that could save lives, modeled after structures found in marine animals like mussels and flatworms.</p> Tue, 11 Oct 2022 20:56:32 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288419 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/interactive-map-shows-natures-contributions-people-301455 <p>Nature supports people in critical ways, often at a highly local level. A wild bee buzzes through a farm, pollinating vegetables as it goes. Nearby, wetlands remove chemicals from the farm’s runoff, protecting a community drinking water source. In communities all around the world, nature’s contributions are constantly flowing to people. A team of international scientists including from ƻ����Ժ, have mapped these contributions at local levels for years, but a new Stanford-led study closes a critical gap in how this information can be used to drive global policy and development.</p> Wed, 09 Oct 2019 14:23:23 +0000 amelia.souffrant@mail.mcgill.ca 188054 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/study-invasive-predators-watch-prey-297577 <p> Wed, 05 Jun 2019 19:09:01 +0000 cynthia.lee@mcgill.ca 166887 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/widespread-permafrost-degradation-seen-high-arctic-terrain-297371 <p>Rapid changes in terrain are taking place in Canada’s high Arctic polar deserts due to increases in summer air temperatures.</p> Wed, 22 May 2019 17:50:07 +0000 krysta.veneruz@mail.mcgill.ca 164247 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/nature-how-warp-speed-evolution-transforming-ecology-284360 <p>Even for the most common processes, such as changes in population size or food chains, ecologists must take evolution into consideration, researchers say. “Everybody realized rapid evolution was occurring everywhere,” says evolutionary ecologist Andrew Hendry of ƻ����Ժ.</p> <p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01400-y">Nature</a></p> Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:08:56 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 32914 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/why-bar-needs-be-raised-human-clinical-trials-265437 <p>Standards for authorizing first-time trials of drugs in humans are lax, and should be strengthened in several ways, ƻ����Ժ researchers argue in a paper published today in <em>Nature</em>.</p> Mon, 30 Jan 2017 15:02:45 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 26659 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mcgill-global-top-50-nature-index-rising-stars-261875 <p><a href="/newsroom/"><strong><em>ƻ����Ժ Newsroom</em></strong></a></p> <p><em>Ranks first in Canada for increase in high-quality research publications from 2012 to 2015</em></p> <p>ƻ����Ժ ranks first in Canada and 37th globally in the <a href="http://www.natureindex.com/supplements/nature-index-2016-rising-stars/index">Nature Index 2016 Rising Stars</a> supplement, which identifies institutions showing the most significant growth in high-quality scientific research publications over the past four years.</p> Wed, 27 Jul 2016 14:51:56 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 26039 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/equality-need-not-be-painful-261722 <p>Pain researchers' arguments for using only male rodents in preclinical pain research don't hold up to scrutiny, says ƻ����Ժ neuroscientist Jeffrey Mogil. <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v535/n7611_supp/full/535S7a.html#author-information">Nature</a></p> Wed, 13 Jul 2016 18:18:59 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 26017 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mysterious-cosmic-radio-bursts-found-repeat-259440 <p><em><strong>By Chris Chipello, </strong><a href="/newsroom"><strong>ƻ����Ժ Newsroom</strong></a></em></p> <p><em>Astronomers for the first time detect repeat ‘fast radio bursts’ from same sky location</em></p> <p>Astronomers for the first time have detected repeating short bursts of radio waves from an enigmatic source that is likely located well beyond the edge of our Milky Way galaxy. <span>The findings indicate that these “fast radio bursts” come from an extremely powerful object which occasionally produces multiple bursts in under a minute.</span></p> Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:03:23 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25420 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/droughts-hit-cereal-crops-harder-1980s-257587 <p>Drought and extreme heat events slashed cereal harvests in recent decades by 9% to 10% on average in affected countries – and the impact of these weather disasters was greatest in the developed nations of North America, Europe and Australasia, according to a new study led by researchers from ƻ����Ժ and the University of British Columbia.</p> Tue, 05 Jan 2016 18:53:07 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25054 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/nature-and-chemistry-are-great-sources-medication-239809 <p> Tue, 28 Oct 2014 19:10:22 +0000 kaviyanka.selvasandran@mail.mcgill.ca 21382 at /newsroom