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Jean-Olivier Dicaire-Leduc throws light on hundreds of previously illegible pages of handwritten documents - some more than 350 years old - using text-recognition software powered by AI.

The latest data from UdeM's Observatory on Health and Well-Being at Work shows that workplaces are still grappling with mental health. In Quebec workplaces, psychological distress and psychotropic drug use have fallen back to prepandemic levels, but symptoms of depression, anxiety and burnout have become more widespread.

UdeM's Yoshua Bengio and Catherine Régis are set to participate in the AI Safety Summit in England. On Wednesday and Thursday, world experts on artificial intelligence will gather at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, England for the AI Safety Summit 2023 .

How to live with the dead? A PhD candidate in literature shares her reflections on death, identity, geography and culture.

Quebec's labour shortage is affecting compensation, bargaining strategies and union membership itself, according to Patrice Jalette, industrial relations professor at UdeM.

A new study sheds light on the specific characteristics of people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.

UdeM geography professor Gabriel Fauveaud travelled to Sihanoukville, Cambodia, to see the social, economic, and physical impact of the Chinese spending spree in the port city.

Heatwaves are smothering the globe this summer. UdeM physiologist Daniel Gagnon has some ideas on how best to cope.

In collaboration with UdeM, the Posthumains theatre company and Duceppe are staging a play about the social implications of AI.

For the first time in Quebec, gene therapy is being used to reverse a rare disease caused by a genetic defect, and it's thanks to the tireless work of two Université de Montréal doctors.

Ph.D. candidate Amélie Apinis-Deshaies has found that well-being is the most important factor influencing sleep, recovery and performance in professional hockey players.

A Ph.D. candidate in political science at UdeM has studied the influence of social pressure on whether people vote.

Quebec-born children with one Muslim immigrant parent forge identities that mix that parent's cultural references and Quebec culture.

It sounds too good to be true-and it is. But when you see a headline like that online, it's tempting to click on it.

Université de Montréal has just been awarded $124.5 million to spearhead a paradigm shift in AI.

A research team has created a Lyme disease risk map that integrates tick population density and human behaviour in thre Eastern Townships.