Scientists of the international ALPHA Collaboration have once again pushed the boundaries of antimatter research with their latest breakthrough studying the properties of antihydrogen. In the article titled, “An improved limit on the charge of antihydrogen from stochastic acceleration” published Jan. 20 in the prestigious journal Nature, the collaboration’s result improved the measurement of the charge […]
Researchers from York University and Shaanxi Normal University in China say mass media coverage during an epidemic can help slow the spread of the disease. In a study published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, the researchers found people’s behaviours changed when news of an epidemic was widely published in the media. Jianhong Wu Researchers […]
“Practice makes perfect” may be a cliché but a new brain study out of York University affirms this age-old adage. Faculty of Health researchers looked at fMRI brain scansof professional ballet dancers to measure the long-term effects of learning. “We wanted to study how the brain gets activated with long-term rehearsal of complex dance motor […]
They are called “RKGs”: the right kind of guys. And with the help of Ron Ferguson (BSc ’89), former outside linebacker for York University’s football team, five RKGs from Calgary are joining the York Lions football squad this fall. Ferguson is no stranger to recruiting RKGs. The York biology grad is a mergers and acquisitions […]
York University English Professor Bruce W. Powe has received six nominations for the Media Ecology Association (MEA) Book Awards, set to take place at the University of Bologna in June 2016. The nominations are for two of Powe’s books: Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy(2014), nominated for the Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding […]