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For Valentine's Day, a psychology professor and researcher specializing in loving attachment discusses the factors that make for a lasting relationship.

A team from the CHUM Research Centre and Université de Montréal has identified a molecule that, in the lab, can inhibit the COVID-19 variants of concern.

Julien Riel-Salvatore has used archaeologist Philip Smith's archives from the Ganj Dareh dig in Iran to create a 3D reconstruction of a section of the important human heritage site. Faced with the constraints created by the pandemic, Julien Riel-Salvatore got creative. Unable to visit the Italian archaeological sites he specializes in, the professor in the University of Montreal's Anthropology Department set to work studying part of an orphaned collection of artifacts originally assembled by Canadian archaeologist Philip Smith.

At the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, star engineer Farah Alibay is part of the team piloting the Perseverance rover on Mars.

A UdeM medical student is the lead author of an article reporting high prevalence of chlamydia and gonorrhea among some men.

The international scientific community has created a validated list of scientific names for legumes.

Many Canadians aren't even aware they can get a credit on their income taxes, a new international survey involving UdeM political scientist Erick Lachapelle finds.

From Feb. 4 to 20, the 24th Winter Games in China will raise a number of issues in the media for our experts to discuss, from sports performance to security to political developments.

In the lead-up to the launch of the James Webb telescope, we look at the scientific objectives of the most powerful space observatory ever sent into orbit.

Five researchers affiliated with UdeM will receive long-term, dedicated research funding to support their research and help them train the next generation of AI leaders.

As global pandemic experts gather for a special World Health Organization assembly, UdeM epidemiologist Hélène Carabin discusses an important policy brief of which she is the senior author.

The launch of the most complex and powerful telescope ever built will be commented on by a number of UdeM astrophysicists who contributed to its design. The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled to be launched on December 22 with sophisticated instruments on board, including a Canadian guidance sensor largely developed by researchers at Université de Montréal.

UdeM nutrition professor Malek Batal discusses a new study he co-led that deplores the high levels of food insecurity and hence less-than-optimal nutrition in Canada's First Nations communities. Ten years in the making, a study co-led by a researcher at Université de Montréal warns that many First Nations face three to five times the rate of food insecurity than the Canadian population overall - especially families with children.

Close to 10 million children in lower-income countries have never been vaccinated against any infectious disease. These "zero-dose" kids hold a lesson for all of us, says UdeM's Mira Johri. Nearly 10 million children in lower-income countries like Nigeria and Pakistan have never been vaccinated, leaving them vulnerable to deadly diseases like polio, measles and pneumonia.

Why are people in Canada's "oil patch" or the American Midwest who've experienced natural disasters still skeptical about climate change? UdeM researcher Erick Lachapelle investigates.

A research team at the CRCHUM has shown that cellular aging, which protects against cancer, depends on a mechanism of genomic instability which causes the disease. In a study published in Nucleic Acids Research, the team of cancer researcher Francis Rodier, an Université de Montréal professor, shows for the first time that cellular senescence, which occurs when aging cells stop dividing, is caused by irreversible damage to the genome rather than simply by telomere erosion.

A new study highlights the harmful effects of climate change on the psychological health and well-being of children and teens. "The threats associated with climate change can additively, interactively and cumulatively increase the risk of psychopathologies in the young, starting at conception and continuing right through to adulthood." This is the conclusion of a study by Francis Vergunst, postdoctoral researcher in public health at Université de Montréal, and Helen Louise Berry, professor at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Around the globe, 360 million people learned English as their mother tongue and another 990 million picked it up as their second language.

Research associate Loïc Albert and doctoral students Olivia Lim and Stefan Pelletier see their proposals accepted for the use of NASA's ultra-sophisticated probe.

On the eve of the UN's COP26 conference in Glasgow, two UdeM anthropologists discuss a new study they've co-written that's become a must-read among climate watchers around the world.

Physical activity is good not only for the body but also the mind. Professor Isabelle Doré explains why exercise is good for mental health and which activities are best.

In the lead-up to Quebec's municipal elections Nov. 7 - and the next leaders' debate Oct. UdeM professors are available to share their expertise with the media on 10 key issues.

University of Minnesota biologist Allison Shaw has come to Université de Montréal on a Fulbright scholarship to study how parasites make fish migrate differently - and what that means for us. Allison Shaw has two UMs to go to: University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, where she's an associate professor, and Université de Montréal, where she's spending the fall semester as a Fulbright Canada Schola r. And appropriately enough, her specialty is migration - though not the human kind.

Prof. Rafael Najmanovich and his team are drawing a more detailed-portrait of the many possible variants of the virus responsible for COVID-19.