Using fMRI imaging and machine learning, Western researchers discovered they could predict which patients would recover from a serious brain injury with an accuracy of 80 per cent.
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Western researcher launches land-inspired opera set in a canoe
Western Education professor Spy Dénommé-Welch wrote the story and co-composed the music for Canoe, a new land-inspired opera which premieres Sept. 12 in Toronto.
Migratory songbirds change breathing pattern to fly at high altitude
New AFAR study investigates how some songbirds adjust their bodies to inhale and distribute oxygen to blood vessels and flight muscles during migratory seasons.
Climate-changing human activity predicted to cause 1 billion deaths; new study
Study led by Joshua Pearce proposes aggressive energy policies to accelerate the decarbonization of the global economy, aiming to minimize the number of projected human deaths.
Movie-inspired technology successfully collects hail data from eye of the storm
Researchers from Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology and Western’s Northern Hail Project successfully launched two probes into a hailstorm.
Sheila Heti named new Alice Munro Chair in Creativity
Award-winning author and best-selling writer Sheila Heti is Western’s new Alice Munro Chair in Creativity.
Perseid meteor shower to peak with stunning display on Saturday evening
Western has launched a new meteor activity website that can help determine how strong the Perseids will be on any given night.
Western researchers capture stunning images of Ring Nebula with James Webb Space Telescope
James Webb Space Telescope recorded stunning new images of the iconic Ring Nebula.
Western team creates open-source medicine autoinjector
Research team led by Joshua Pearce has developed a new 3-D printed, completely open-source autoinjector for a tenth of the cost of a commercially purchased product.
Western researchers determine July 1 Alberta tornado was among most powerful ever seen in Canada
A tornado that sliced through a rural area south of Didsbury, AB on July 1 has been rated at EF4 by Western’s Northern Tornadoes Project.
Vision allows brain to make predictions well before it knows what’s coming
A Western study shows how a baseball player might predict ball movement in real-time by processing information available to him with his eyes while it is moving at 150 kilometres (90+ miles) per hour.
Western researchers part of Webb carbon molecule discovery
International team of scientists have used data collected by the James Webb Space Telescope to detect for the first time ever a molecule known as methyl cation (CH3+), located in the protoplanetary disc surrounding a young star.