As predicted by Captain Kirk, space is indeed the final frontier. But imagine if Starfleet couldn’t launch the U.S.S. Enterprise because there was a traffic jam in Earth’s orbit causing congestion or, worse, gridlock. Welcome to 2023. The growth of …
Tornadoes carry destructive power and fearsome beauty – and a new exhibit at the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre attempts to convey both.
A Western-led project to discover and decode tornadoes in remote Northern Ontario has spun into a nationwide mission to identify every Canadian tornado in 2019.
Dire warnings of rotting teeth, cancer and sudden infant death are emblazoned on tobacco packaging as deterrents to smoking. Yet, smokers continue to light up. So, what would happen if packaging could also trigger guilt, shame or embarrassment?
Researchers at Western have developed an objective way to monitor female athletes’ concussion injury, by using brain scans to study their brains over time.
A new study led by Western University’s Natasha Mhatre shows how black widow spiders’ body dynamics and posture help them decode important vibrations that travel through their webs and up their legs.
During the past year, a team of geologists led by Corcoran and Earth Sciences professor Elizabeth Webb have worked with Pelee Island Winery to fine-tune its soil management practices and produce better grapes.
In a milestone for the university, every faculty at Western now has at least one Innovation Ambassador whose job it is to help share and cultivate all these ideas and values.
Movie piracy may be siphoning less money from the box office than some analysts suggest, a paper by a Western PhD student says. In fact, the word-of-mouth promotion generated by people who view illegal downloads could, in some cases, offset movie-house losses as the...
International, interdisciplinary, fast-breaking research is newly eligible for federal grants from a New Frontiers in Research Fund.
A new report examining five years of domestic homicides in Canada is a painful reminder of the social, criminal and public-health toll experienced by women, children and men every day.
Despite the strong presence of women students in university business programs, women leaders are portrayed stereotypically – or not at all – in many business case studies, new research shows.
Western faculty, staff and students now have access to the latest higher-education news from across the world, through free access to digital newsletters of Times Higher Education.
Tornadoes carry destructive power and fearsome beauty – and a new exhibit at the John Labatt Visual Arts Centre attempts to convey both.
A Western-led project to discover and decode tornadoes in remote Northern Ontario has spun into a nationwide mission to identify every Canadian tornado in 2019.
Dire warnings of rotting teeth, cancer and sudden infant death are emblazoned on tobacco packaging as deterrents to smoking. Yet, smokers continue to light up. So, what would happen if packaging could also trigger guilt, shame or embarrassment?
Researchers at Western have developed an objective way to monitor female athletes’ concussion injury, by using brain scans to study their brains over time.
A new study led by Western University’s Natasha Mhatre shows how black widow spiders’ body dynamics and posture help them decode important vibrations that travel through their webs and up their legs.
During the past year, a team of geologists led by Corcoran and Earth Sciences professor Elizabeth Webb have worked with Pelee Island Winery to fine-tune its soil management practices and produce better grapes.
In a milestone for the university, every faculty at Western now has at least one Innovation Ambassador whose job it is to help share and cultivate all these ideas and values.
Movie piracy may be siphoning less money from the box office than some analysts suggest, a paper by a Western PhD student says. In fact, the word-of-mouth promotion generated by people who view illegal downloads could, in some cases, offset movie-house losses as the...
International, interdisciplinary, fast-breaking research is newly eligible for federal grants from a New Frontiers in Research Fund.
A new report examining five years of domestic homicides in Canada is a painful reminder of the social, criminal and public-health toll experienced by women, children and men every day.
Despite the strong presence of women students in university business programs, women leaders are portrayed stereotypically – or not at all – in many business case studies, new research shows.
Western faculty, staff and students now have access to the latest higher-education news from across the world, through free access to digital newsletters of Times Higher Education.