/newsroom/taxonomy/term/8616/all en /newsroom/channels/news/how-heart-tissue-combines-mechanical-strength-and-electrical-reliability-287129 <div><span>The human heart can be viewed as both a mechanical and an electrical device – one that contracts and pumps billions of times over an average lifespan. How does it manage to achieve this feat without lapsing into dangerous irregularities?</span></div> <div> </div> Thu, 10 May 2018 15:40:16 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 39762 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/dot-drawing-drones-261928 <p><strong><em>Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Newsroom</em></strong></p> <p><em>Flying robots could someday help artists create outdoor murals</em></p> <p>You may have heard of plans to use drones for delivering packages, monitoring wildlife, or tracking storms. But painting murals?</p> <p><span>That’s the idea behind a project in Paul Kry’s laboratory at Æ»¹ûÒùԺ’s School of Computer Science. Prof. Kry and a few of his students have teamed up to program tiny drones to create dot drawings – an artistic technique known as stippling.</span></p> Thu, 04 Aug 2016 15:17:38 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 26057 at /newsroom /newsroom/denis-therien Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22852 at /newsroom /newsroom/clark-verbrugge Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23782 at /newsroom /newsroom/kaleem-siddiqi Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23668 at /newsroom /newsroom/gerald-ratzer Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22940 at /newsroom /newsroom/jackie-vogel Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:35:06 +0000 Anonymous 23156 at /newsroom /newsroom/derek-ruths Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23954 at /newsroom /newsroom/doina-precup Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23990 at /newsroom /newsroom/michael-langer Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23544 at /newsroom