In 2025, Dr. Mahumm Ghaffar and Dr. Maryam Bibi, both originally from Pakistan, became the first students to earn PhDs in subatomic physics from Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN). They were also the first doctoral graduates in this field in Newfoundland and Labrador.

New findings by a university-government research team show that levels of the marine bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus (Vibrio) have increased in tandem with…

Long before autonomous machines began to reshape modern agriculture, Dr. Danny Mann was exploring what many in the field had overlooked: while much of the research around automation was focused on advancing machinery, Dr. Mann was interested in the people behind the machinery.

Imagine helping a friend carry a couch from one room to another and somehow pivoting it around tight corners without scraping the walls. How is it that the two of you move as if you share the same mind?

New research out of the University of New Brunswick (UNB) may make aluminum smelting more efficient and sustainable while also creating a source of green, zero-carbon fuel and supporting sectors that rely on aluminum materials.

Can your brain attune itself to a foreign language before you’re even born?

Dr. Catie Ivy doesn’t call the birds she studies “birds”—she calls them her friends. And she wonders if her friends might be in danger due to smoke from recent…

Access to potentially life-saving neurosurgical care remains uneven worldwide—with potentially fatal consequences. This is especially true for the most common…

Behind every star, there is more than one story: not only the story of its birth, but also the story of how astronomers have observed it. Thanks to high…

Jason Pounall jokes that “old people” shouldn’t go back to school. “These young adults in my classes, they’re quick. They keep me on my toes,” he says through…