Research & Innovation
Western astrophysicists help decode chemistry behind cosmic butterfly’s beauty
James Webb Space Telescope reveals unexpected molecules that unlock secrets of stellar evolution
Western expands use of meteor cameras to tackle aviation-induced climate change
Western researchers have a plan for tracking contrails with financial backing from heavy hitters like Google and Breakthrough Energy.
Western biologists solve long-held mystery of how crickets sing
Western biologists have developed an innovative way to reconstruct how crickets sing using measurements from preserved samples and computational modelling.
Ivey researchers explore Europe’s evolving rules for Big Tech
Machine learning reveals historical seismic events in Yellowstone caldera
Engineers re-examined earthquake data from Yellowstone over a 15-year period and retroactively detected and assigned magnitudes to approximately 10 times more than previously recorded.
Ivey researcher explores the rise of “retributive philanthropy”
Canadian project monitors satellites over High Arctic for first time
Frugal Biomedical Innovations at Western provide global health solutions
Schulich Medicine & Dentistry profs building tools to improve health care in remote regions
New machine learning model improves early tsunami warnings
New Western study buoyed traditional statistics with novel machine learning techniques, using artificial intelligence, to test early warning models for Tofino, B.C.
Western researchers show nostalgia’s influence on grooving to music
Neuroscientists studied impact of familiarity and nostalgia on the desire to tap, move and dance along to music and found nostalgic songs elicited a higher desire to get groovy than familiar songs across all three.
Western researcher receives funding from ARIA to unlock potential of plants
Schulich Medicine & Dentistry professor Bogumil Karas awarded $1.5M to optimize plants by creating genomes from scratch