/mymcgill/taxonomy/term/4/all en /mymcgill/channels/news/when-using-music-alleviate-pain-tempo-matters-362884 <p>Music has the best chance of providing pain relief when it is played at our natural rhythm, a �������� research team has discovered.</p> <p>This suggests it may be possible to reduce a patient’s level of pain by using technology to take a piece of music someone likes and adjust the tempo to match their internal rhythm, the researchers said.</p> <p>The discovery was the subject of a paper published this week in <i>Pain</i>, the top journal in the field of pain medicine and research.</p> Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:32:01 +0000 admin 43415 at /mymcgill /mymcgill/channels/news/resolve-wifi-service-disruption-362990 <p>IT Services has restored WiFi services on campus. Thank you for your patience and understanding.</p> <p> </p> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:07:25 +0000 admin 43413 at /mymcgill /mymcgill/channels/news/important-review-your-public-ms-teams-groups-sharepoint-sites-february-7-2025-362982 <p><a href="#French"><em>La version française suit.</em></a></p> <p>The following is a message from �������� IT Services.</p> <p><strong>ALL owners of "Public" MS Teams groups / SharePoint sites are required to audit their groups.</strong></p> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 15:30:46 +0000 admin 43412 at /mymcgill /mymcgill/channels/news/remote-sensing-tools-yield-insights-abandoned-pre-columbian-mexican-city-362490 <p>A �������� researcher has discovered that Guiengola, a 15<sup>th</sup> century Zapotec site in southern Oaxaca, Mexico, which had been thought to be simply a fortress where soldiers were garrisoned, was in fact a sprawling, fortified city. It covered 360 hectares, with over 1,100 buildings, four kilometres of walls, a network of internal roads and a clearly organized urban layout with temples and communal spaces such as ballcourts, and the elites and commoners lived in separate neighbourhoods.<br /> <br /></p> Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:57:34 +0000 admin 43410 at /mymcgill /mymcgill/channels/news/possible-service-interruption-telephone-and-fax-services-scheduled-maintenance-jan-29-8pm-11pm-362974 <p>Due to scheduled maintenance on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 between 8 PM and 11 PM, users may experience short service interruptions when using ��������'s telephone system and the Xmedius Fax service during this time.</p> Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:10:32 +0000 admin 43409 at /mymcgill /mymcgill/channels/news/last-ice-area-arctic-could-disappear-much-sooner-previously-thought-362937 <p>The Arctic’s “Last Ice Area” (LIA) — a vital habitat for ice-dependent species — might disappear within a decade after the central Arctic Ocean becomes ice-free in summer, which is expected to occur sometime around mid-century, a <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02034-5">new study</a> by �������� researchers using a high-resolution model has found.  </p> Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:17:23 +0000 admin 43407 at /mymcgill /mymcgill/channels/news/what-drives-mood-swings-bipolar-disorder-study-points-second-brain-clock-362917 <p>A brain rhythm working in tandem with the body’s natural sleep-wake cycle may explain why bipolar patients alternate between mania and depression, according to new research.</p> <p>The ��������-led study published in <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado9965"><i>Science Advances</i></a> marks a breakthrough in understanding what drives shifts between the two states, something that, according to lead author <a href="https://douglas.research.mcgill.ca/kai-florian-storch/">Kai-Florian Storch</a>, is considered the “holy grail” of bipolar-disorder research.</p> Mon, 27 Jan 2025 14:08:29 +0000 admin 43406 at /mymcgill /mymcgill/channels/news/dead-galaxies-live-signals-astronomers-uncover-fast-radio-bursts-surprising-location-362730 <p>Astronomers studying the origins of enigmatic fast radio<a> </a>bursts (FRBs) have made a groundbreaking discovery that could transform our understanding of the universe’s most powerful and mysterious signals. The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) collaboration has pinpointed the location on the sky of a repeating FRB, known as FRB 20240209A, outside a dead galaxy, a finding unprecedented in FRB science. The researchers believe the FRB may have originated in a cluster of old, dead stars orbiting the dead galaxy.</p> Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:41:09 +0000 admin 43404 at /mymcgill /mymcgill/channels/news/shape-shifting-materials-are-made-more-versatile-362452 <p>Finding new angles on an old artform, �������� researchers have increased the number of stable shapes that kirigami-based engineered materials can take, opening the way to a range of new applications.</p> <p>What makes these metamaterials special is not what they are made of – they can be plastic, cardboard or anything else – but how, thanks to shapes cut into them, they are able to morph from one form to another. To begin to understand the concept, think of pop-up illustrations of cut paper in books or greeting cards.</p> Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:27:12 +0000 admin 43402 at /mymcgill /mymcgill/channels/news/child-undernutrition-may-be-contributing-global-measles-outbreaks-researchers-find-362588 <p>Amid a global surge in measles cases, new research suggests that undernutrition may be exacerbating outbreaks in areas suffering from food insecurity.</p> <p>A study involving over 600 fully vaccinated children in South Africa found those who were undernourished had substantially lower levels of antibodies against measles.</p> Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:54:05 +0000 admin 43400 at /mymcgill /mymcgill/channels/news/clouds-have-surprising-effect-surface-warming-mcgill-climate-researchers-find-362515 <p>�������� researchers have <a href="https://can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41586-024-08323-x&data=05%7C02%7Cclaire.loewen%40mcgill.ca%7C1aa187b701b5492b8a2a08dd30d48d35%7Ccd31967152e74a68afa9fcf8f89f09ea%7C0%7C0%7C638720411653005201%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=hAbOefehlKHoVxQELBFhl2SbManK7P767BMN7dbn5tw%3D&reserved=0">discovered</a> that changes in clouds are slightly mitigating global warming.</p> Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:07:07 +0000 admin 43377 at /mymcgill /mymcgill/channels/news/ai-innovation-unlocks-non-surgical-way-detect-brain-cancer-spread-362513 <p><!-- x-tinymce/html --></p> <p>Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) model to detect the spread of metastatic brain cancer using MRI scans, offering insights into patients’ cancer without aggressive surgery.</p> Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:11:48 +0000 admin 43373 at /mymcgill /mymcgill/channels/news/apex-predators-prehistoric-colombian-oceans-would-have-snacked-killer-whales-today-mcgill-study-362443 <p>Predators at the top of a marine food chain 130 million years ago ruled with more power than any modern species, �������� research into a marine ecosystem from the Cretaceous period revealed. </p> Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:09:21 +0000 admin 43371 at /mymcgill /mymcgill/channels/news/integrating-historic-data-stands-improve-climate-models-global-south-362078 <p>An international team led by �������� researchers has devised a way to improve the accuracy of climate change models for the Global South by integrating historical records kept by missionaries and other visitors.</p> Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:21:42 +0000 admin 43369 at /mymcgill /mymcgill/channels/news/researchers-link-mysterious-cosmic-signals-collapsed-stars-362290 <p>An international team of scientists led by �������� researchers has provided the clearest evidence yet that some fast radio bursts (FRBs) — enigmatic, millisecond-long flashes of radio waves from space — originate from neutron stars, the ultra-dense remnants of massive stars that have exploded in a supernova. This finding, based on an analysis of the radio signal of a single FRB, advances our understanding of one of the universe’s most perplexing phenomena. </p> Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:05:40 +0000 admin 43366 at /mymcgill