A documentary research team, including two Indigenous youth from Kluane First Nation, will visit Western University on Wednesday (March 30) to test mercury levels in fish collected from their own community. The Kluane First Nation Government is based at Burwash...
For more than three million Canadians suffering from osteoarthritis, getting out of bed in the morning or opening a jar can be a serious challenge. The disease, which results in degeneration of bones and joints, has a very human face, causing severe pain and...
As the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) launched a space probe early this morning from the Russian Kosmodrom in Baikonur, Kazakhstan to study trace gases in the Martian atmosphere, a planetary scientist from Western University...
If you watch science fiction movies from 1970s, you would think by the year 2016 there would be a robot in every home performing tasks like cooking, cleaning and cutting the lawn. But there isn't. Jörn Diedrichsen, who has come to Western University from University...
Lions, wolves and other large carnivores are frightening beasts that strike fear into humans and other animals. A new study led by Western University demonstrates that the fear these top predators inspire can have cascading effects down the food chain critical to...
A new interdisciplinary study at Western University has shown for the first time that 70 per cent of nitrates in high mountain lakes in Utah are from human-caused sources – with fertilizers having, by far, the most impact. The research suggests these findings also...
Charged with determining the existence of life elsewhere in the universe, the Chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation – an international, intensified extraterrestrial search spearheaded by Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking – is coming to Western University....
An international research collaboration, led by Western University, has developed a new imaging technique that will save hospitals money and more importantly, give some patients a second chance at life. Utilizing functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology,...
An award-winning documentary titled "The Messenger" featuring 'dazzling' high speed and high-definition footage of wild Canadian birds filmed at Western University's Advanced Facility for Avian Research (AFAR) will have a special pre-release screening at Western Film...
Western University's Brock Fenton has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Selected for his distinguished contributions to animal behaviour, evolution, and animal communication, Fenton is considered one of the world's...
As Doc Brown looks back to the future, Western University is preparing for this weekend's 75th Anniversary celebrations of the Hume Cronyn Memorial Observatory. Named for the late Hume Blake Cronyn (a prominent lawyer and politician in London, Ont. at the turn of the...
A study published by The Journal of Neuroscience challenges the more traditional scientific belief that using touch to recognize objects depends on visual circuitry in the human brain. The idea is that feeling the shape of an object somehow conjures up visual...
