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October 20, 2017
The navigator plots a secure and sure and steady path through shoals and stormy seas or, if your ship is intergalactic, through meteor showers and passing comets. Today, although we work effectively...
October 29, 2016
The CFI believes that supporting partnerships between researchers, institutions and the private and public sectors will increase the return on CFI investments by fostering dynamic interaction between...
October 17, 2017
Today, the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Research Facilities Navigator reveals an exciting new suite of features that makes it easier for researchers, industry and other partner organizations to...
May 15, 2018
Ancient explorers crossed the seas, using the stars to navigate, making their way through lands unknown to them, guided solely by the planets above. They sought paths to meaning, prosperity, better...
May 1, 2007
Pictures may be worth a thousand words. But the pictures taken by the University of Ottawa Heart Institute’s cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) scanner are about one word only—life. The...
April 21, 2010
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This Anise swallowtail (Papilio zelicaon) was found in a remnant of Garry oak woodland in Victoria. Although the species is not at risk, the habitat where it was spotted certainly is.Jeremy...
April 24, 2017
Canada is experiencing an unprecedented change in its population; over the next two decades nearly a quarter of us will be over 65. To understand the complex interplay between the physical, social...
April 24, 2017
An artist’s representation of “entanglement,” one of the properties of quantum mechanics. Modern computers operate within classical laws of physics, but a new model is emerging that is governed by...
April 24, 2015
Making new things has always been at the heart of innovation, but when the scale of design and manufacture is reduced to the nano-level, a new world of possibilities opens up. Think, for example, of...
January 12, 2015
HOW TO BUILD AN ARC
The University of Ottawa’s new Advanced Research Complex is a powerhouse of photonics and geosciences research
The Advanced Research Complex (ARC) is a five-storey, customized...