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Group calls on international community to prevent dementia by preventing stroke
July 18, 2019
The risk factors for stroke and dementia are the same, and a growing body of evidence demonstrates that preventing stroke can also prevent some dementias. Now, a group of experts…
Apollo 11 and Canada ‘re-launch’ to the Moon this Saturday at Western University
July 16, 2019
Fifty years ago today, Apollo 11 launched on a mission to the Moon. Five days later, on July 21, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the lunar surface…
Western University to host more than 1,550 international guidance counsellors and admissions professionals for global conference
July 8, 2019
The International Association of College Admission Counseling (International ACAC) and Western University will host 1,565 representatives from around the world for an international education conference from July 9 to 12…
Researchers show how marijuana produces radically different effects in different individuals
July 5, 2019
How marijuana affects us may come down to the region of the brain it is acting on. Researchers at Western University have shown that different regions of the brain produce…
Researchers decipher the history of supermassive black holes in the early universe
June 28, 2019
Astrophysicists at Western University have found evidence for the direct formation of black holes that do not need to emerge from a star remnant. The production of black holes in…
Brain and Mind Institute study shows how fast human brains ‘see’ the world
June 27, 2019
A new study from Western University’s renowned Brain and Mind Institute shows how fast our brain makes sense of a world in which the images of people, places and things…
Bring your personal ‘space oddities’ to Western’s Asteroid Day event
June 26, 2019
Are you desperate to find out, once and for all, if the rock your grandfather found when he was plowing the family farm back in the 1960s actually fell from…
Scientists find potential way to defuse ‘time bomb’ of cardiology
June 25, 2019
They have been called the ‘time bomb’ of cardiology – ascending aortic aneurysms grow for decades without any warning signs and can be fatal once they rupture. They have taken…
Life on Mars was possible after last great meteorite impact nearly 4.5 billion years ago
June 24, 2019
A new international study led by Western University shows that Mars’ first ‘real chance’ at developing life started very early, 4.48 billion years ago, when giant, life-inhibiting meteorites stopped striking…
Western’s Northern Tornadoes Project goes coast to coast to coast with new national scope
June 13, 2019
Western University is set to become Canada’s leading authority on tornado tracking, research and analysis thanks to a major expansion of its renowned Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP). The expansion has…
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