
Profile
Cathy Allen brings her green and gold pride — and quilting skills — to the U of A community

Discovery
The first-ever meteorite to land in P.E.I. is caught on camera and makes auditory history — now it’s at the U of A

Alumni Impact 2024
An offhand idea sparked a husband-and-wife business that harnesses fruit flies to develop life-saving therapies

Discovery
From chatbots for seniors to efficient construction, U of A researchers are using artificial intelligence to enhance our lives

Did You Know
When we power down for the night, our brains light up, creating and storing long-term memories

Tiny
Enter the weird and wonderful world of quantum physics

Tiny
Ice that’s tens of thousands of years old helps us study the past and peer into the future

Feature
Today’s challenges and how we address them will shape the way we live

Health
Medicines or treatments that work for one patient or group might be less effective for another

Just For Fun
You might learn something about romance

Discovery
U of A labs are part of the worldwide hunt for solutions

Money
The first-timer’s guide to a post-pandemic investment planning

Energy
When you hit the switch, the lights have to come on. Read about the challenge of powering the next generation

Environment
Don't be fooled by their cuteness. Coyotes, Canada geese and raccoons are just waiting to take advantage of you

Did You Know
Stretch your vowels - and your confidence - with these tips on talking to a crowd

Environment
Urban water systems risk running dry. Can research help?

Profile
No. 1: artificial intelligence isn't really artificial

Tech
He's not very funny, but he has a lot to tell us
Unexpected behaviour offers clues to how artificial beings learn

Discovery
U of A research is always garnering media attention. Here's the lowdown on what's been causing a buzz.

News
Puppy love, mid-life slumps and Zika virus
Discovery
U of A research is always garnering media attention. Here's the lowdown on what's been causing a buzz.

Discovery
Fifty-five composers turn sounds captured from Earth's magnetosphere into music

Money
New platform gives students and researchers a new way to raise funds

Discovery
Curiosity-driven research on Arctic mosses turns up unexpected findings and makes Catherine La Farge a rock star in the botany world.

Profile
Meet one of the U of A's newest students-who just earned more than $100,000 in scholarships

Discovery
Electron microscope tip makes Guinness Book of Records.

Feature
Take a peek inside the U of A's new one-of-a-kind CCIS building.

Feature
Water shapes life here on solid ground. But our effect on life underwater is as substantial as our need to better understand it

Thesis
There’s no magic bullet to managing my migraine, but learning a little about myself has helped

Did You Know
Death is scary, but getting your affairs in order doesn’t have to be

Did You Know
Generative AI models may sound like us, but to truly understand language requires human experience

Did You Know
From bees to bats, pollinators are key to a stable food supply

Research
Scientists are harnessing quantum mechanics to create computing power beyond anything we’ve ever known

Distinguished Alumni Award
Robert Foster’s tenacity has his small pharmaceutical company punching above its weight

Did You Know
What to do when you see wildlife on urban trails this summer

Thesis
What happens when the idea of “us” grows, allowing it to encompass a little more than it did before?

Continuing Education
Free online course offers advice to help you separate fact from fiction

Just For Fun
If there were a dating site for bugs, what would it look like?

Thesis
Our ability to tinker is allowing us to travel farther than ever

Energy
Methane-eating bacteria already exist, so why not put them to work for us?

Health
At least they're your germs. Imagine what's crawling on the plastic bins at airport security

Living
Know what you want from a tree and learn how to make it last through the holidays

Thesis
Science is uncovering what's behind the canine-human bond

Feature
Artificial intelligence is here to stay. We look behind the hype

Tech
Prosthetics learn to predict a person's motions to operate more naturally

Tech
Two years after the Fort McMurray disaster, there are new tools on the horizon that could better predict a destructive fire

Continuing Education
A course in Swaziland offers MD student a new world perspective
Just For Fun
Answering the question: What if our biggest discoveries were made into movies?
Discovery
Catch up on the lastest news about the U of A and alumni

Discovery
One U of A researcher argues that genes are followers, not leaders, when it comes to evolution
Discovery
The low down on what's up in U of A labs

Profile
Megan Engel, '12 BSc, becomes the 69th U of A student to receive a Rhodes Scholarship

Discovery
U of A researchers help find the elusive Higgs Boson

Tech
One-of-a-kind machine allows researchers to expose the past of samples by analyzing their atomic makeup.

Discovery
Research expert Andre Martel shares his fascination with the tastiest of bivalves...mussels.

Health
Prize-winning master's thesis shows promise for prostate cancer

2024 Distinguished Alumni Award
Atul Malhotra is driven by passion, opportunity and necessity — but mostly the people in his community

Trails
One grad’s path to veterinary medicine

Did You Know
Fundamental quantum research could lead us to a whole new scientific reality — one with answers to the biggest problems of today and tomorrow

Just for Fun
John Acorn, a.k.a. the Nature Nut, shares tips to embrace the great outdoors this summer

Environment
Researchers are targeting threats to our climate and food supply — some of the answers are smaller than you think

Tiny
The U of A is full of tiny marvels – from miniature items to microscopic research

Continuing Education
A taste for the red stuff has created surprising similarities across species — and across research interests

Feature
Can sunshine be improved? Can paralysis be reversed? Four researchers push the bounds of knowledge to change lives

Just For Fun
If you love lifelong learning, and love (or loathe) insects, read on

Alumni Awards
This Earth scientist is one of four 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award recipients

Feature
Instead of playing catch-up with the next new virus, precision medicine aims to let us find it early and deal with it swiftly

Tech
There's no such thing as a free orbit

Health
Find out where the added sodium, sugar and saturated fats in your foods are coming from

Just For Fun
We didn't believe that a paper tube could fly. Turns out, we just had to roll with it

Feature
Reimagining the way we care for people

Thesis
Metabolism research could design your optimal diet or give advance warning of disease

Did You Know
Forget everything you've learned in the movies. AI is so much less - and more

Tech
Unexpected behaviour offers clues to how artificial beings learn

Did You Know
Our social circles are overlapping more than ever

Did You Know
International research team discovers two never-before-seen celestial phenomena

Health
For people living with a recurrent C. difficile infection, everyday mealtime becomes a painful test.

Environment
Ross Lockwood spent his summer vacation on Mars... or at least a simulation of Mars on the slopes of a volcano

Discovery
Physicist Don Page talks us through the science behind Stephen Hawking's recent headline-prompting pronouncement

Profile
Laila Steen is the first to admit that having an arts student pursue a science degree seems pretty weird

Health
Meet the people working to make sure your family lives longer — and better

Discovery
Discovery of new 'adaptin' protein may offer insight into the cause of some neurodegenerative disorders

Discovery
U of A astronomer's research reveals the "weird" physics inside a neutron star

Feature
A non-grad extends a hand to the U of A in honour of her father.

Discovery
Next time you're stuck on the freeway think of waves radiating outward from a gas explosion.