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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?
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…
Turns out a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down - and lights up a PET scan. The vast majority of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging systems map…