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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…
To help clinicians choose the right drugs to treat fungal infections, researchers have classified the protective effects of some 4000 mutations in Candida…
During Jess Speedie’s first year at university, someone told her, “We owe everything on Earth to the rotating disk of gas and dust that existed around our sun…
Pushing for a higher speed isn’t just for athletes. Researchers, too, can achieve such feats with their discoveries. This is the case for Jinyang Liang…