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When you drive across a bridge, walk through a tunnel, or rely on clean water flowing through underground pipes, you’re trusting that these structures are safe. Thanks to the pioneering work of Professor Xiaoyi Bao at the University of Ottawa, that trust is backed by cutting-edge science.

On October 21, 2025, the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) participated in the fourth conference of the Coalition for Academic Freedom in the Americas (CAFA), held at the Universidad de Monterrey in Mexico.

What drives someone to explore the invisible mechanisms that shape life across generations? For Niepukolie Nipu, a PhD student in biology at uOttawa, the answer lies in an insatiable curiosity — and a determination to uncover how environmental stress affects physiology and behaviour in directly exposed zebrafish and how it can be transmitted to offspring. His research is contributing to a better u...

You’ve heard about biodegradable materials, but what about ultra-biodegradable ones?

The Government of Canada has announced the list of Canada Research Chairs, including four awarded to University of Ottawa professors.

Authors lobbying for legal reforms to protect young players’ data.

From a Norwegian town above the Arctic Circle, PhD candidate Xiatong Cai researches new ways to protect our rivers and oceans while he explores our fragile connections to each other and to the natural world.

Scientists at the André E. Lalonde National Facility for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) are challenging the carbon dating community to take a fresh look at what we assume about radiocarbon measurements.

Contrary to long-held beliefs, most of the water that flooded global coastlines thousands of years ago came from North American ice sheets, not Antarctica.

The researchers’ national impact in evidence-based health care guidelines and neuromuscular disease was recognized by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences earlier this month.