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Canada's boreal forests are known to help moderate the effects of climate change, absorbing and storing much more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they release.

While the full impact of the pandemic on Canadians' mental health is still unknown, new research at Western will cast light on how COVID-19 affected psychological counselling services, as well as monitor how that changes over the next four years.

A Western team joined survivors and community members in creating a commemorative site to preserve the memory of lives lost in the Sumpul Massacre A collaborative team co-led by Western researcher Am

Flooding in Pakistan continues to ravage the country leaving millions displaced from their homes and many dead.

Schulich Medicine & Dentistry Vladimir Hachinski and Potamkin Prize winner says a positive approach to brain health may help reduce incidences of stroke, heart disease and dementia Schulich Medic

Research shows primary health care and digital health stakeholders are "cautiously optimistic" about AI implementation Whether we're ready or not, artificial intelligence (AI) already plays a role in many healthcare settings. However, cautiously developing, deploying and even defining further AI advancements will determine its impact and efficacy in the years ahead, according to a new Western study.

Seven Western researchers have been awarded a total of $1.7 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to tackle national and global research challenges. This funding will help advance work in important areas, including health and well-being, climate change, and sustainable energy sources.

Stigma and discrimination associated with substance use have been shown to contribute to barriers to care, especially among marginalized and Indigenous communities.

In Ontario, nearly 900,000 people live with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). People with this condition account for 24 per cent of hospitalizations, 24 per cent of emergency department visits and 21 per cent of ambulatory care visits.

The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has captured the most detailed and sharpest images ever taken of the inner region of the Orion Nebula, a stellar nursery situated in the constellation Orion 1,350 light-years away from Earth. The new images released today were targeted by an international collaboration, which includes researchers from Western University.

Professor Catherine Neish led a team of students to Iceland to test how drones and rovers could work together for future space missions Godzilla vs. Kong. Batman vs. Superman. Drone vs. Rover? While Hollywood loves pitting iconic characters against one another in a summer blockbuster, even those fighting the same good fight, that's not the case for planetary scientists exploring the Moon, Mars and beyond.

Residents in eastern Ontario are still recovering after a tornado-producing thunderstorm left a path of destruction over 55 kilometres long and up to 1,400 metres wide in July.

When Dr. Ruth Lanius won her Grade 12 biology award in high school, she had no idea it would change the course of her life.

Holographic teleportation sounds like something out of Star Wars or Star Trek , but instead of the bridge of a flashy interstellar spaceship, a futuristic technological achievement took place in a nondescript boardroom on campus at Western recently.

A new pan-Canadian research project will explore the impact of parks, protected areas and other recreational facilities on people's health and well-being.

The cost of a surgical fracture table generally costs more than $250,000. A Western Engineering-led team has designed and developed a new 3D-printed prototype using open source hardware.

A tornado cut a 270-kilometre path through Kentucky in mid-December 2021, killing 80 people, many in their homes or workplaces, and rendering thousands homeless.

Rendering of a 3D synchrotron-based image of an implanted cochlea. The red in the image is an implanted cochlear implant electrode array.

Recent immigrants to Canada face barriers to accessing primary care and may be missing out on the benefits that come with having a family physician.

The jury is out on whether plastic bags to hold curbside recyclables are environmentally worse than conventional blue bins, says a study by Western professor Paul Mensink.

The COVID-19 pandemic has substantially affected how women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV) coped with their abusive situation, according to a new study led by health sciences professor Tara Mantler and Kim Jackson, professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing.

Known as 'Qamani'tuaq' in Inuktitut, Baker Lake in Nunavut is home to Indigenous hip hop artists who are the subjects of post-doc researcher Raj Singh's study.

Siobhan Schabrun, a researcher who studies chronic pain, is the Gray Chair in Mobility and Activity (Debora Van Brenk, Western Communications) Few people enjoy talking about, or even thinking about, chronic pain.

A Western team of audiology researchers has developed gold-standard ways to assess, treat and properly fit and tune hearing aids for infants, including to this baby wearing hearing aids.

(L-R) Uma Venkatasubramanian, Roberto Budzinski and Kathleen Lyons are three inaugural research fellows of the Western Institute of Neuroscience.

A team of researchers at Western is calling for an end to a long-held, strict policy of anonymity in organ donations, pushing for new legislation that will allow donor families to connect with organ recipients, if they choose to.

A bright fireball was observed by a network of all-sky cameras across southern Ontario at 11:37pm on Sunday, April 17, 2022.

Gender, sexuality and women's studies professor Bipasha Baruah has been named as the Strategic Focus Western Research Chair.

London Bridge during the Frost of 1795-1796. Daniel Turner painting, City of London Corporation It produced floods deep enough to carry away cattle, and winds powerful enough to sink flotillas.

Organized play and sporting opportunities for children have finally started to resume after having just passed the two-year mark of the pandemic.

Bucha main street after Russian invasion of Ukraine, Oleksandr Ratushniak - Wikimedia Commons Russian atrocities against Ukrainians are increasingly coming to light.

A team of Western researchers are leveraging the capabilities of autonomous aerial vehicles, most commonly drones, to deliver innovative, safe and secure methods of data collection for an extensive list of commercial and non-commercial operations. As drone technology rapidly develops and advances, the global level of interest and viability has soared exponentially.

Axiom Space's Ax-1 mission is the first privately crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) and Western is going along for the ride.

Bruce Willis speaking at the 2018 San Diego Comic Con International - Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons.