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When Japanese samurai repelled the Mongols, their victories were attributed to typhoons whipped up by divine forces.

Back to school! Here are some science-based tips and tricks to improve your retention skills and maximize your chances of a successful semester. Would you like to start the new year off on the right foot and do everything in your power to ensure a successful session? To achieve this, why not use effective means to improve knowledge acquisition, retention and retrieval? Gyslain Giguère, lecturer in Cognitive Processes 1 at the Université de Montréal's Department of Psychology, gives an overview of human attentional and memory processes, and presents ways of exploiting them to promote learning.

A new professor in UdeM's School of Criminology, the Toronto native specializes in the psychology of sexual disorders, including zoophilia.

UdeM PhD candidate Eve Charbonneau explains how her hands-on biomechanics research helped Canadian athlete Sophiane Méthot win a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics.

Digital music professor Nicolas Bernier is developing a method for notating sound textures in electroacoustic performances.

Shabnam Rahbar is studying 10 major projects to explore ecological landscaping practices in Quebec. There's eco-construction, eco-ethics, eco-neighbourhoods: ecology seems to be top of mind for planning professionals and researchers.

Participating in sports helps kids do better in school when they become adults, a new study led by psycho-education professor Linda Pagani suggests.

Seven UdeM anthropology students are in Guatemala working with Professor Christina Halperin to unearth relics of Mayan civilization.

Extreme heat poses serious health risks such as electrolyte imbalance, heart attack and kidney failure. Can our bodies adapt? Periods of extreme heat-even a single day when the thermometer hits 35° C'are associated with increased risk of injury, hospitalization and death. When the body gets too hot, the heart and kidneys don't function properly.

Vincent Mélançon is spending the summer at UdeM's biological research station in the Laurentians studying variations in the oxygen consumption of sunfish infected with flatworms.

In 2021, Montreal's air quality was degraded by forest fires burning thousands of kilometres away, a study shows.

Professor Catherine Xhardez presents the results of a study of provincial policies to attract, select and, above all, retain economic immigrants.

Open since 2020, the clinic will be able to continue serving migrant and racialized LGBTQIA+ communities thanks to the new funding from Canada's health ministry.

When long-term users of prescription opioids in Canada were mailed a brochure encouraging them to cut their dosages, many of them did - and that's a good thing, researchers say.

A new form of cognitive-behavioural couple therapy may help women diagnosed with sexual desire disorders and reduce the emotional distress associated with it.

Writing software code can be a painstaking and stressful process-and downright boring when the job is repetitive and you're doing it remotely, alone in front of your screen.

Whether born in Canada or abroad, members of visible minorities are at a disadvantage in the job market, according to a CIRANO report by Professor Brahim Boudarbat.

Between 2010 and 2020, Quebec doctors became more likely to recommend physical activity for certain diseases but less likely to prescribe it for primary prevention or for obese patients.

The CHUV has developed a new French-language platform in the Firstline app to help veterinarians and students select antibiotics for cats and dogs.

Research data management lets researchers record, use and share research data. It supports the development of new knowledge and replication and validation of research findings.

Auditory input doesn't provide the body representation system with sufficient information for accurate spatial perception, according to a study conducted by Daniel Paromov from Université de Montréal.

Canada's food industry used a variety of lobbying strategies between 2016 and 2019 to oppose changes to Canada's Food Guide.

Professors and researchers Annie Pullen Sansfaçon and Olivier Ferlatte discuss the issues they're interested in and the solutions they see in the current tense social climate.

On a closed-off street in front of École Saint-Benoît in Ahuntsic, several hundred kids are free to play after school thanks to a pilot project co-developed at UdeM's School of Public Health.

A UdeM researcher is launching a study to test whether virtual reality can relieve anxiety and pain in palliative care.

A new UdeM study examines how a person's lifestyle influences our assumptions about their political leanings and how valid those assumptions are. Can we infer a person's voting preferences from their lifestyle choices' Are certain characteristics, such as the type of car you drive or leisure activities, really associated with different political parties' The answer seems to be yes, according to a new study by Catherine Ouellet , a professor in the Department of Political Science at Université de Montréal.

A narrower keyboard on loan from a U.S. company to the Faculty of Music reduces muscle fatigue and provides more comfort and sound control for smaller-handed pianists, typically women.

School of Psychoeducation doctoral candidate Rocio Macabena Perez finds that UdeM's extracurricular Art en tête program reduces depressive symptoms in Quebec high-school students.

Most humans are itching to catch a glimpse of the upcoming solar eclipse. But for some wildlife, this unique cosmic event is more likely to befuddle than bewitch.

Developed by two UdeM computer-science students, Mon Éclipse simulates the path of the April 8 total eclipse of the sun.

In a new book co-edited by UdeM's Catherine Régis and Jean-Louis Denis, experts from a dozen countries and a dozen disciplines argue for a more human-centred approach to artificial intelligence.

A new report co-authored by an UdeM professor makes recommendations to help ensure that the rights of seniors in long-term care are respected.

An UdeM criminologist looks at Quebec provincial police attitudes towards the potential use of bodycamera footage in legal proceedings - and finds most think it's a good idea, up to a point. In the courtroom, Quebec provincial police officers seem to be broadly in favour of having images captured by body-worn cameras used as evidence, but are also concerned about some of the potential consequences for the pursuit of justice.