Author: Maria Gill

Education. With its pilot project, System D, Les Assidus aims to increase the interest of students in the region in science and technology. Thanks to Desjardins’ support, approximately 1,700 students, spread over 25 schools, will test the System D project in the Beauce, Etchemins and Appalaches regions in 2022. On May 30, Les Assidus was at the École Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire in Saint-Benoît-Labre to launch the Pneumatic Rocket project. This project provides students with several hours of educational activities in science, mathematics, arts, and the French language. Students learn about the history of rockets, their current use as well as the usefulness…

Three medical researchers and two epidemiologists have written in Search Posted on July 7 by New England Journal of Medicine. And the starting point for their article is not the series of concerns in the past two years about a vaccine against COVID, but the series of concerns about the vaccine against H1N1 influenza, in 2009. They remember that already, at the time, the WHO meeting had warned that ” Public distrust In vaccines it threatens to undermine the political will needed to respond quickly to the most severe influenza pandemic in the future. » First, the three authors recall…

You have to go back to 2004 to find the year the smelter’s stacks released more arsenic than they did in 2021, or 52 tons. (Photo: Courtesy Archive) Although recent data from the federal government’s National Pollutant Release Inventory shows that the Horn smelter released 36 tons of arsenic into the air last year, more than any year since 2005, the company argues that “these emissions have been overstated because of the contamination probe used”. According to the latest national pollutant release inventory, smelter owner Glencore reported releasing 36 tons of arsenic into the air at Rouyn-Noranda in 2021. For…

Shingles mainly affects people over 50 years old. Extremely painful, this viral infectious disease “is caused by the reactivation of the varicella-zoster virus of the herpes virus family, which occurs long after chickenpox,” the health insurance describes.In detail, in order for shingles to appear, the varicella-zoster virus, which has remained “asleep” at the nerve root at the level of the ganglia, must multiply there. Then, it “runs along the nerve fibers and causes painful skin or mucous rashes in the area innervated by these fibers,” she continues.strikeStudies have indicated that varicella virus reactivation may be a risk factor for dementia…

Israeli researchers claim to have developed a substance that speeds up the repair of damaged nerves using electricity. This ultra-thin material – a type of high-tech fabric – can be wrapped around damaged nerves inside the body and allowed light-derived electricity to flow through them after the wound is closed. Its inventors, from the Technion – the Israel Institute of Technology – in Haifa, tested the substance on mice and documented its effectiveness in the journal nature materials. Get our free daily copy via email so you don’t miss out on any of the best news Free registration! This substance…

It’s rare to find studies that highlight the value and economic impact of networking platforms – social or video – as Google just did for YouTube. Below is a summary of key information about the platform’s impact in Canada in 2021 taken from the press release. YouTube allows us to enrich our knowledge: In Quebec, 93% of users say they use YouTube to get information and gain knowledge. YouTube in French: 78% of Quebecers agree that it is easy to find content in the language of their choice on YouTube. The number of people earning $100,000 on the platform is…

While they regularly deliver great results, great AI models are generally black boxes: it is not known exactly how they calculate their answers and many items are not made public. The BigScience project, in which a thousand researchers participate in a participatory and open scientific approach, is changing the situation with Bloom. It is the largest fully open and transparently trained multilingual language model. This type of AI simultaneously learns the text generation model and the text representation model by repeatedly performing an initial task: predicting the next word of text whose beginning is known, in a way that makes…

Dare employees in Saint-Lambert remain mired in uncertainty, denouncing the position of the owner of the Whippet Cookie plant, which is once again postponing the closing of the venue. Posted at 3:43 p.m. Julian Arsino Journalism Located in the southern suburbs of Montreal, the plant was scheduled to close in August, but the company just changed its tune without offering a new deadline for the 100 or so employees still in their posts. “Employees are not happy,” said Sylvain Jani, representative of the International Federation of Bakeries, Sweets, Tobacco and Milling Workers (BCTM). They can’t wait to move on. »…

From July 4 to 8, the Laurentian Biology Station in Saint-Hippolyte welcomed four artists. The goal is to put them in contact with scientists, so that their research will inspire future work. This research residency will culminate in two exhibitions, in Contemporary Art Museum of Laurentians and on University of Montreal Exhibition Centerin the fall of 2023. You have to drive a long time, sometimes on small dirt roads, to reach the Laurentian Biological Station, in the heart of the Hippolytoise Forest. This large area of ​​16 km2Protected for fifty years, it is a small campus of the University of…

This text is from the Courrier de la Planète on July 12, 2022. To subscribe, click here. Could citizen pressure be able to make Ottawa back down from the Baie du Nord project? Helen Letourneau asks. The approval of the Bay du Nord Petroleum project is final and cannot be revoked by the Federal Government unless the company has breached any of the conditions imposed on it. However, environmental groups believe that popular pressure can still push lawns back. Even if it wanted, the Trudeau government would not have the right to go back to its analysis of the file…