Wild macaques don’t abandon babies. So why did Punch’s mother?Sarah E. Turner, Concordia University; Brogan M. Stewart, Concordia University; Megan M. Joyce, Concordia University, and Mikaela Gerwing, Concordia University
From Anthropic to Iran: Who sets the limits on AI’s use in war and surveillance?Emmanuelle Vaast, McGill University
Will AI drones, robots and wearable sensors revolutionize workplace safety?Atieh Razavi Yekta, University of British Columbia and Christopher McLeod, University of British Columbia
What the Tumbler Ridge tragedy reveals about Canada’s AI governance vacuumJean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon, Simon Fraser University
A cosmic explosion with the force of a billion Suns – we caught its echoAshna Gulati, University of Sydney and Tara Murphy, University of Sydney
Strong opinions matter: Why some birds refuse to follow the flockLauren Guillette, University of Alberta and Julia Self, University of Alberta
Novel ‘body-swap’ robot provides insights into how the brain keeps us uprightJean-Sébastien Blouin, University of British Columbia and Patrick A. Forbes, Erasmus University Medical Center
Lessons from the sea: Nature shows us how to get ‘forever chemicals’ out of batteriesAlicia M. Battaglia, University of Toronto
ChatGPT is in classrooms. How should educators now assess student learning?Sarah Elaine Eaton, University of Calgary; Beatriz Antonieta Moya Figueroa, University of Calgary; Rahul Kumar, Brock University, and Robert Brennan, University of Calgary
I used AI chatbots as a source of news for a month, and they were unreliable and erroneousJean-Hugues Roy, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
Reports of ‘AI psychosis’ are emerging — here’s what a psychiatric clinician has to sayAlexandre Hudon, Université de Montréal
Why Canada’s reaction to the Grok scandal is so muted in the midst of a global outcryEric Van Rythoven, Carleton University
Scientists have identified unique sounds for 8 fish speciesDarienne Lancaster, University of Victoria
How the ocean’s hydrothermal systems made the first life on Earth possibleLong Li, University of Alberta
No, your brain doesn’t suddenly ‘fully develop’ at 25. Here’s what the neuroscience actually showsTaylor Snowden, Université de Montréal
What the New Year’s fire at a Swiss bar tells us about fire preventionBrodie Ramin, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
From earthquakes to wildfires, Canada is woefully ill-prepared for disastersBrodie Ramin, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
The rise of sinkholes: How to spot the risks before disaster strikesPeter Adesina, University of Toronto
Aging bridges are crumbling. Here’s how new technologies can help detect danger earlierAmirreza Torabizadeh, Concordia University and Emre Erkmen, Concordia University
Concrete with a human touch: Can we make infrastructure that repairs itself?Mouna Reda, McMaster University and Samir Chidiac, McMaster University
The gift that keeps on giving: How solar panels on farms can help increase crop yieldsJoshua M. Pearce, Western University
White mold fungi split their genome across several nuclei, with implications for future gene editingXin Li, University of British Columbia; Edan Jackson, University of British Columbia, and Josh Li, University of British Columbia
Our understanding of lightning has been driven by fear and shaped by curiosityPeter Watson, Carleton University
Gene-edited pigs may soon enter the Canadian market, but questions about their impact remainGwendolyn Blue, University of Calgary
Managing soil fertilization levels can make for more efficient and productive cropsJT Cornelis, University of British Columbia
Calls for grizzly hunts to return to Western Canada oversimplify a complex ecological issueTandeep Sidhu, University of Manitoba and Lacee O'Neil, University of Manitoba
How researchers are making precision agriculture more affordableSamuel Mugo, MacEwan University and Mohammed Elmorsy, MacEwan University
An innovative tool coating could improve the way products — from aerospace to medical devices — are madeQianxi He, McGill University
Space-time doesn’t exist — but it’s a useful concept for understanding our realityDaryl Janzen, University of Saskatchewan
A total eclipse of the Moon, Saturn’s rings ‘disappear’, meteors and more: your guide to the southern sky in 2025Nick Lomb, University of Southern Queensland
Information collected by the world’s largest radio telescope will be stored and processed by global data centresSimon Blouin, University of Victoria; Falk Herwig, University of Victoria; JJ Kavelaars, National Research Council Canada; University of Victoria, and Sébastien Fabbro, University of Victoria
10 years ago, gravitational waves changed astronomy. A new discovery shows there’s more to comeSimon Stevenson, Swinburne University of Technology
Move over Mercury – Chiron is in retrograde. What even is Chiron?Laura Nicole Driessen, University of Sydney
Social media can be understood as a role-playing game like Dungeons & DragonsStephen M Yeager, Concordia University
More than a quarter of Canadian teens have experienced sexual violence onlineCharlotte Nau, Western University; Christopher Dietzel, Concordia University, and Estefanía Reyes, Western University
Beyond Zohran Mamdani: Social media amplifies the politics of feelingsMerlyna Lim, Carleton University
The American TikTok deal doesn’t address the platform’s potential for manipulation, only who profitsAndrew Buzzell, Western University
Politically aggressive social media users are creating most of the anti-immigrant contentNicholas A. R. Fraser, Toronto Metropolitan University
Ctrl-alt-defy: How Ukrainians have used memes to counter Russia’s propaganda machineMichel Bouchard, University of Northern British Columbia
Gen Z protests brought about change in Nepal via the powers — and perils — of social mediaLuna KC, University of Northern British Columbia
Smart textiles may soon be able to control devices or monitor healthSara Nabil, Queen's University, Ontario
Tracking with care: The ethics of using location tracking technology with people living with dementiaMadalena Pamela Liougas, University of Toronto and Alisa Grigorovich, Brock University
Bugonia: Why some people’s brains cling to the idea that aliens are realDan Baumgardt, University of Bristol
How number systems shape our thinking and what it means for learning, language and cultureJean-Charles Pelland, University of Bergen
New global research shows eye movements reveal how native languages shape readingVictor Kuperman, McMaster University; Nadia Lana, McMaster University, and Olga Parshina, Middlebury College
How the physics of baseball explains Blue Jay Kevin Gausman’s signature pitchPatrick Clancy, McMaster University
Physicists and philosophers have long struggled to understand the nature of time: Here’s whyDaryl Janzen, University of Saskatchewan
Will AI automation really kill jobs? A new survey finds Canadian workers are split on the answerScott Schieman, University of Toronto and Alexander Wilson, University of Toronto
Silent cyber threats: How shadow AI could undermine Canada’s digital health defencesAbbas Yazdinejad, University of Regina and Jude Kong, University of Toronto
Generative AI might end up being worthless — and that could be a good thingFenwick McKelvey, Concordia University
Microsoft’s AI deal promises Canada digital sovereignty, but is that a pledge it can keep?Blayne Haggart, Brock University
Slanguage: How the use of AI for apologies could cause the ‘Canadian Sorry’ to lose its soulJoshua Gonzales, University of Guelph
AI disruptions reveal the folly of clinging to an idealized modern universityDani Dilkes, University of Toronto and Mark Daley, Western University
We asked teachers about their experiences with AI in the classroom — here’s what they saidNadia Delanoy, University of Calgary
The AI bubble isn’t new — Karl Marx explained the mechanisms behind it nearly 150 years agoElliot Goodell Ugalde, Queen's University, Ontario
How AI is challenging the credibility of some online coursesMohammed Estaiteyeh, Brock University and Rahul Kumar, Brock University
Federal budget 2025: Is Canada Strong actually weak on AI?Nicolas Chartier-Edwards, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) and François-Olivier Picard, Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)
We can’t ban AI, but we can build the guardrails to prevent it from going off the tracksSimon Blanchette, McGill University
AI is perpetuating unrealistic body ideals, objectification and a lack of diversity — especially for athletesDelaney Thibodeau, University of Toronto; Catherine Sabiston, University of Toronto, and Sasha Gollish, University of Toronto
Montréal’s bike infrastructure hardly takes up any space from cars on city roadsDaniel Romm, McGill University
Dense, compact urban growth is favoured by mid-sized Canadian citiesRylan Graham, University of Northern British Columbia and Jeffrey Biggar, Dalhousie University
Canada could use thermal infrastructure to turn wasted heat emissions into energyJames (Jim) S. Cotton, McMaster University and Caleb Duffield, McMaster University
Investigators are increasingly using technology in conflict-related sexual assault casesValerie Oosterveld, Western University
Wildfire season is changing in Canada — posing even greater risks to the nation’s communities and ecosystemsHossein Bonakdari, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
The proposed Strong Borders Act gives police new invasive search powers that may breach Charter rightsRobert Diab, Thompson Rivers University