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AI – a potential helping hand for humanitarian aid

  For the training of artificial intelligence tools developed by HEC Montréal and Polytechnique Montréal, images of disasters used- including those generated by the passage of Hurricane Matthew in the West Indies in 2016. (PHOTO: Haiti Hit by Hurricane Ma ...

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Biofabrication: contrôler la qualité des protéines… dès leur sortie de la cellule

  By pairing a biosensor- like this one- with a bioreactor filled with cultured cells, Professor De Crescenzo wants to ensure that the quality of antibodies is monitored during the manufacturing process, rather than after its been completed. (Photo: Marti ...

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Permafrost: learning to build on shifting soil

  In the Far North, melting permafrost is disrupting the lives of thousands in their communities. (PHOTO: Wojtek Gajek, Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences) At a time when the world is attempting to curb carbon emissions, the inhabitants o ...

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Miniature Northern Lights- in hydroponic greenhouses

  By exposing a gas to electric field, plasma, the fourth state of matter, is created. (Photo: Sean Watson)   In a greenhouse on Montréal's North Shore, Stephan Reuter will soon be testing a device likely to accelerate plant growth, assist plants to ...

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Mass produced hockey sticks… from braids!?

  PhD student Maissaloun El-Jakl, who works in Professor Louis Laberge Lebel's laboratory, is developing part of a mass production-oriented braiding and pultrusion process for composite hockey stick handles. (Photo: Martin Primeau) Braided hockey sti ...

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Giant leaps forward in spinal cord imaging

  Thanks to a protocol developed by Professor Julien Cohen-Adad and his collaborators, it's now possible to use AI to read spinal cord MRI data. (Photo : NeuroPoly) Not content with just one, two articles penned by Cohen-Adad and his team have just b ...

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Chemical Engineers: working in the pandemic’s shadows (Part 1)

  Professor Olivier Henry's brand new bioreactors were quickly put to work to produce billions of copies of the spike protein of the virus that causes COVID-19. (Photo: Martin Primeau) In the bioreactors in his lab in the J-Armand Bombardier (JAB) pa ...

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A "made in Quebec" rocket launcher

  Before conducting its first test flight, Reaction Dynamics is testing its hybrid engine for efficacy and safety at a test site in Joliette (Photo: Reaction Dynamics) Three years after leaving Polytechnique Montréal, Bachar Elzein is preparing for the da ...

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An “optical nose” to sniff out dairy farm GHG emission reductions

  An “optical nose” developed by Yves Alain Peter's team was tested earlier this summer at McGill University's Macdonald Experimental Dairy Farm. (Photo: Marc-Antoine Bianki) Just like Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, Yves-Alain Peter's labo ...

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Roaming robot swarms set to explore Lunar and Martian caves

  The swarm of rovers from Polytechnique's MIST Laboratory have mapped a site reminiscent of the Moon and Mars at the Canadian Space Agency. (Photo: Marcel Kaufmann) If you visit the Polytechnique Montreal campus over the next few days, it's ver ...

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Bubbles exploring the brain

  Spatiotemporal Ultrasound Localization Microscopy can reveal a whole world hitherto inaccessible to medical teams. On the right, the image of a mouse brain without image processing, and on the left, after microbubbles localization (Photo: Chloé Bourquin ...

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Telework and well-being- not always fast friends

  Guaranteeing access to parks via active modes of transport fosters equity between citizens, regardless of age or income level, says Professor Geneviève Boisjoly. (Photo: Catherine Lacroix-Couture). Teleworking- a source of well-being? Not necessarily, a ...

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Autopsy of a bridge

  Before disappearing entirely from Montréal’s skyline, the “old” Champlain Bridge will reveal a few of its secrets. (Photo: JCCBI) In the shadow of the new Samuel-De Champlain Bridge, workers have been busy since last autumn dismantling its older sibling ...

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When the circus comes to... the lab!

  Charlotte Dubost (photo : Anne-Marie Lambert-Chevrier) When Charlotte Dubost decided on a rather unconventional subject for her Master’s degree in engineering, she approached a handful of professors on both sides of the Atlantic. The result? Polytechniq ...

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