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A new national report identifies declines in student performance in every province and territory examined in Canada, with grade inflation obscuring the extent of setbacks during the Covid-19 pandemic.

For more than six decades, local scientists have collected sugar maple leaves from Gatineau Park to measure their radiocarbon levels, creating the longest continuous record of its kind. Now, a study of those leaves led by the André E. Lalonde National Facility for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AEL-AMS) located at the University of Ottawa shows that the effects of Cold War era nuclear weapons test...

A globally renowned scholar in information law and policy, Dr. Teresa Scassa has been appointed to the Reference Panel of the Global Privacy Assembly to support the global forum and its 130 regulators in shaping the future of privacy and data protection.

An alternative model in which the Universe is 26.7 billion years old and needs neither dark matter nor dark energy has held up against several major cosmology tests, according to a new University of Ottawa study.

A new report by International IDEA and the Pol Comm Tech Lab led by Dr. Elizabeth Dubois examines how democracies around the world are responding to the growing role of social media influencers in election campaigns and offers an electoral integrity blueprint to support electoral management bodies, legislators and platforms.

New study by uOttawa's Positive Energy and Electricity Canada reveals that workforce capacity is emerging as a critical constraint on the expansion of Canada's electricity grid.

What if we could better predict epileptic seizures and develop more effective treatments? To get there, we need a well-rounded understanding of the disorder, and that starts with more reliable scientific models.

What can art show us that we can’t always understand through scholarly approaches to research?

A new report by the United Nations Secretary-General on human rights in the administration of justice cites research by Professor Jennifer Chandler, highlighting the international relevance of her work on the legal use of neuroscientific evidence.

Le Canada s'est engagé à réduire ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre, mais son système de tarification carbone, qui vise principalement les grands émetteurs industriels, reste moins ambitieux que celui de plusieurs de ses partenaires commerciaux.