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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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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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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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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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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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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” 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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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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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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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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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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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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