There are a few issues with adopting an annual COVID vaccination plan. But perhaps most importantly, we don’t know how people will feel about getting an annual COVID vaccine. Not...
The result of the five-year PEAK Urban project, involving more than 100 international researchers, the course was launched at the United Nations last Monday, [19 September 2022]. It offers participants...
In an effort to address these problems, researchers from MIT and elsewhere demonstrated an in-home device that can monitor a patient’s movement and gait speed, which can be used to...
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Cuba suffered “significant wind and storm surge impacts” when the hurricane struck with top sustained winds of 125 mph (205 kmh). Its exact track...
(Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Ian, projected to be one of the costliest storms in US history, prompted mass evacuations, school shutdowns and thousands of flight cancellations across the third-largest state. That...
Dr. Shanna Lorenz, VIU’s 2022 Fulbright Canada Visiting Research Chair in Indigenous Studies, is working with Indigenous communities on a data gathering app. Dr. Shanna Lorenz’s research is supporting Indigenous...
Research led by VIU’s Dr. Sean Sloan finds wildfire activity less severe today than in early 2000s, particularly in managed landscapes. Although agricultural activity such as land clearing historically drove...
A team of physicists has created a new way to self-assemble particles—an advance that offers new promise for building complex and innovative materials at the microscopic level. Self-assembly, introduced in...
The creation of a DNA database that more accurately reflects the rich genetic diversity of First Nations Australians will help improve health outcomes for patients, according to experts from The...
Long-term memories rely on both the repetition of events and an intricate neurological learning process in making these memories last, shows a new study by a team of neuroscientists. They...