After the 2017 attack in Las Vegas — where a single gunman opened fire on concertgoers from his hotel room window, killing dozens — researcher Andrew Park wanted to use his skills to help in some way.  Park, an associate professor in the computing science department at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, got to work creating a computer program to try […]

French engineering student Marie Marbaix is spending this summer in a Université de Montréal laboratory in Saint-Hyacinthe extracting DNA from honey bees, in a bid to understand the role of parasites and viruses on honey bee hive loss. “I’m very interested in virology; it’s a domain I wanted to learn more about, so that maybe […]

It started with the mass shooting in Las Vegas. That’s when Thompson Rivers University computer science associate professor Andrew Park started to look into creating a system which would help police analyze a location for potential so-called ‘lone wolf’ terrorist attacks. “The idea is, why couldn’t we prevent this kind of terrible attack?” Park tells […]

VANCOUVER—When thousands of people gather for parades, concerts and festivals, they are also vulnerable to unpredictable attacks by terrorists intent on creating the most chaos and destruction, but researchers at a B.C. university say they are developing technology that could help prevent these terror events. Karthik Vedantham and Andrew Park at Thompson Rivers University in […]

A new medical startup by Dalhousie University Ph.D. graduate Hamed Hanafi plans to use artificial intelligence to treat sleep apnea. The condition causes patients to intermittently stop breathing in their sleep. It’s usually treated with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, or CPAP, machines that use high levels of air flow to prevent the upper airway from […]

A new medical startup by Dalhousie University Ph.D. graduate Hamed Hanafi plans to use artificial intelligence to treat sleep apnea. The condition causes patients to intermittently stop breathing in their sleep. It’s usually treated with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, or CPAP, machines that use high levels of air flow to prevent the upper airway from […]

Home to Cirque du Soleil, the National Circus School, TOHU and more, Montreal is at the heart of Quebec’s billion-dollar contemporary circus industry. And for the first two weeks of July, industry members, artists and fans will converge on the city for the annual Montréal complètement cirque festival. Amid this flurry of excitement, Concordia University’s […]

Ephraim Nowak is hard at work preparing to mass produce his company’s latest development, SkyVU. “It’s a novel cockpit video recorder for small aircraft that are currently not required to use a black box recorder,” said Nowak, CEO of Percept Systems Nowak, a six-year veteran of the Central Okanagan Search and Rescue Team, says the […]

 Fredericton company has developed a natural food preservative from an unlikely source — extract of mushroom. Chiber, a product developed by Chinova Bioworks, will offer food and beverage companies an alternative to artificial preservatives such as sodium sorbate and sodium benzoate. These types of preservatives are created synthetically by modifying salt. Studies have found that sodium […]

A Mitacs researcher and geotechnical specialist working with Brandon University is helping to change the face of rural roads in the area. Cypher Environmental has been producing an environmentally-friendly soil stabilizer called EarthZyme for a decade now, Riley Cram, the Mitacs researcher and specialist, has found a way to make it more widely applicable, including […]

“As the country’s first graduate blockchain learning path, the initiative is transformative to the blockchain sector.” The University of British Columbia (UBC) is launching a blockchain and distributed ledger technology training program for graduate students.The training program, which UBC called the first of its kind in Canada, will concentrate on four sectors: health and wellness, […]

TRAIL – Austin Engineering Ltd. and its research partners are taking their findings on how dams respond during earthquakes to an international audience this week when they present at The International Commission on Large Dams (ICOLD). The Trail engineering firm, Selkirk College, FortisBC, and the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) have again worked successfully […]