How can Canada become a global AI powerhouse? By investing in mathematicsDeanna Needell, University of British Columbia; Kristine Bauer, University of Calgary, and Ozgur Yilmaz, University of British Columbia
No, your brain doesn’t suddenly ‘fully develop’ at 25. Here’s what the neuroscience actually showsTaylor Snowden, Université de Montréal
Everyday chemicals, global consequences: How disinfectants contribute to antimicrobial resistanceMilena Esser, McMaster University
The rise of sinkholes: How to spot the risks before disaster strikesPeter Adesina, University of Toronto
Concrete with a human touch: Can we make infrastructure that repairs itself?Mouna Reda, McMaster University and Samir Chidiac, McMaster University
Aging bridges are crumbling. Here’s how new technologies can help detect danger earlierAmirreza Torabizadeh, Concordia University and Emre Erkmen, Concordia University
From earthquakes to wildfires, Canada is woefully ill-prepared for disastersBrodie Ramin, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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
The ‘AI Homeless Man Prank’ reveals a crisis in AI educationNadia Naffi, Université Laval and Ann-Louise Davidson, Concordia University
‘Rage bait’ is the Oxford Word of the Year, showing how social media is manufacturing angerLaurence Grondin-Robillard, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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
Online harassment is silencing Canada’s health experts — institutions need to do more to protect themHeidi J. S. Tworek, University of British Columbia; Chris Tenove, University of British Columbia, and Netheena Neena Mathews, University of British Columbia
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
The AI bubble isn’t new — Karl Marx explained the mechanisms behind it nearly 150 years agoElliot Goodell Ugalde, Queen's University, Ontario
Ctrl-alt-defy: How Ukrainians have used memes to counter Russia’s propaganda machineMichel Bouchard, University of Northern British Columbia
Social media can be understood as a role-playing game like Dungeons & DragonsStephen M Yeager, Concordia University
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 Toronto and Jude Kong, University of Toronto
An innovative tool coating could improve the way products — from aerospace to medical devices — are madeQianxi He, McGill University
Rate my AI teacher? Students’ perceptions of chatbots will influence how they learn with AINandini Asavari Bharadwaj, McGill University and Adam Kenneth Dubé, McGill University
How AI is challenging the credibility of some online coursesMohammed Estaiteyeh, Brock University and Rahul Kumar, Brock University
How the physics of baseball explains Blue Jay Kevin Gausman’s signature pitchPatrick Clancy, McMaster University
Bugonia: Why some people’s brains cling to the idea that aliens are realDan Baumgardt, University of Bristol
New global research shows eye movements reveal how native languages shape readingVictor Kuperman, McMaster University; Nadia Lana, McMaster University, and Olga Parshina, Middlebury College
We asked teachers about their experiences with AI in the classroom — here’s what they saidNadia Delanoy, University of Calgary
How to ensure youth, parents, educators and tech companies are on the same page on AIAjay Kumar Shrestha, Vancouver Island University
OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignoreRobert Diab, Thompson Rivers University
A digital twin could help Canada beat wildfires, fix commutes and save tax dollarsEhsan Noroozinejad Farsangi, University of British Columbia and T.Y. Yang, University of British Columbia
Politically aggressive social media users are creating most of the anti-immigrant contentNicholas A. R. Fraser, Toronto Metropolitan University
The American TikTok deal doesn’t address the platform’s potential for manipulation, only who profitsAndrew Buzzell, Western University
Generative AI might end up being worthless — and that could be a good thingFenwick McKelvey, 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
YouTube shapes young people’s political education, but the site simplifies complex issuesEmine Fidan Elcioglu, University of Toronto
Why industry-standard labels for AI in music could change how we listenGordon A. Gow, University of Alberta and Brian Fauteux, University of Alberta
What AI-generated Tilly Norwood reveals about digital culture, ethics and the responsibilities of creatorsRamona Pringle, Toronto Metropolitan University
Gen Z protests brought about change in Nepal via the powers — and perils — of social mediaLuna KC, University of Northern British Columbia
How researchers are making precision agriculture more affordableSamuel Mugo, MacEwan University and Mohammed Elmorsy, MacEwan University
‘AI actor’ Tilly Norwood is dividing Hollywood – but real acting requires humanityNicholas Scrivens, University of Surrey
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
Fossils are scientific evidence, and shouldn’t be auctioned for millions to private buyersJessica M. Theodor, University of Calgary; Kenshu Shimada, DePaul University; Kristi Curry Rogers, Macalester College, and Stuart Sumida, California State University, San Bernardino
I’m a physicist who studies fossils, and I recently discovered preserved blood vessels in the world’s largest T. rexJerit Leo Mitchell, University of Regina
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
Beyond Zohran Mamdani: Social media amplifies the politics of feelingsMerlyna Lim, Carleton University
New age-gating laws aimed at making the internet safer actually threaten free speechNeil McArthur, University of Manitoba
Smart textiles may soon be able to control devices or monitor healthSara Nabil, Queen's University, Ontario
I’m a statistics professor who became embroiled in the world of online chess dramaJeffrey S. Rosenthal, University of Toronto
New research reveals that almost half of Canadians believe in the paranormal — ghosts and allTony Silva, University of British Columbia and Emily Huddart, University of British Columbia
Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes — no wonder we’re addictedStephen Monteiro, Concordia University
Online reviews influence what we buy, but should they have that much power over our choices?Katie Mehr, University of Alberta
‘Stop Killing Games’: Demands for game ownership must also include workers’ rightsLouis-Etienne Dubois, Toronto Metropolitan University and Miikka J. Lehtonen, Rikkyo University
Censoring video games with sexual content suppresses the diversity of human desireJean Ketterling, University of Saskatchewan; Ashley ML Guajardo, New York University; Carl Therrien, Université de Montréal, and Kenzie Gordon, University of Alberta
Québec’s school cellphone ban won’t solve the challenges of family tech useAlex Baudet, Université Laval and Marie-Agnes Parmentier, HEC Montréal
Physicists and philosophers have long struggled to understand the nature of time: Here’s whyDaryl Janzen, University of Saskatchewan
How number systems shape our thinking and what it means for learning, language and cultureJean-Charles Pelland, University of Bergen
Child eyewitnesses can be unreliable, but new techniques can support themShaelyn Carr, University of Regina and Kaila C. Bruer, University of Regina
Expressing gratitude isn’t necessary, but a little appreciation may still go a long wayLara B Aknin, Simon Fraser University; Anurada Amarasekera, Toronto Metropolitan University; Kristina K. Castaneto, Simon Fraser University, and Tiara A Cash, Simon Fraser University
Is your diet influencing your dreams? Here’s what our research says about food and nightmaresJade Radke, University of British Columbia; Claudia Picard-Deland, Université de Montréal; Russell Arnold Powell, MacEwan University, and Tore Nielsen, Université de Montréal
Could a national, public ‘CanGPT’ be Canada’s answer to ChatGPT?Fenwick McKelvey, Concordia University
We can’t ban AI, but we can build the guardrails to prevent it from going off the tracksSimon Blanchette, McGill 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)
AI tools promise efficiency at work, but they can erode trust, creativity and agencyJordan Loewen-Colón, Queen's University, Ontario and Mel Sellick, Arizona State University
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