Science & Technology

With the ever-changing climate, the need for new energy resources is becoming more significant, and a University of Alberta professor's research on plastic solar panels has been garnering serious attention, including a visit from the royal couple.

After bouncing around campus and the surrounding community for the past 70 years, the University of Alberta Observatory has finally found a permanent home on top of the newest campus building.

Two members of the University of Alberta's Department of Pharmacology have been recognized for their achievements in brain pain research with Neuropathic Pain Research Awards.

The awards are given out annually by Pfizer Canada to fund and support research. Peter Smith and Bradley Kerr were named as two of the five recipients this year.

Wildlife in the North Saskatchewan River is experiencing strange effects from chemicals of everyday products that are causing sex changes in fish, changing the males into females, according to University of Alberta toxicologist Greg Goss.

A new machine at the University of Alberta's Glen Sather Sports Medicine Clinic can analyze the way people walk and run with three-dimensional technology, providing more accurate data to help prevent incorrect walking that could lead to injury.

In February, IBM's "Watson" supercomputer defeated two Jeopardy! champions. On Monday, Watson researcher James Fan explained to a U of A audience exactly how they managed to do it.

Reading comprehension from a smartphone screen is as low as half of that when reading from a standard desktop monitor, according to a recent study by a University of Alberta research team.

Simply wiping an object three times with some salt water can be just as effective at cleaning plastic surfaces as using disinfectants, alcohols, or bleach, according to a University of Alberta researcher.

The University of Alberta opened the floodgates yesterday, inviting all student webmail users to officially switch over to Google.

Savant-style genius may be affected by the amount of testosterone you receive in the womb, according to a new University of Alberta study.

The roots of extraordinary genius have long been the subject of a nature versus nurture debate, but educational psychology professor Martin Mrazik thinks that prenatal conditions may be the determining factor.