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Discover a selection of international news coverage of the advances made by the CIFAR global research community. To arrange an interview with one of our experts, contact Vice President, Communications Graeme Wilkes.
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Slate | Those Beautiful James Webb Space Telescope Images Are Just the Beginning
July 13, 2022
CIFAR in the News
Toronto Star | Can we make artificial intelligence less racist?
June 22, 2022
CIFAR in the News
The New York Times | ‘It’s Life of Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens
April 23, 2022
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Financial Post | Lunch with Dan Breznitz: 'Our kids will have a worse life than us, unless we change Canadian business'
April 19, 2022
CIFAR in the News
The Verge | Keywords from hallucinogenic experiences can help find parts of the brain affected by drugs
March 16, 2022
CIFAR in the News
New Scientist | There are neurons in the brain that only seem to respond to singing
February 22, 2022
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Scientific American | How AI Could Prevent the Development of New Illicit Drugs
January 05, 2022
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Vanity Fair | In the shadows: the orphans COVID left behind
December 15, 2021 TRUSTED EXPERTISE
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October 2023
What you eat could be key to improving your mental health, scientists say
CBC
Interview with Carolina Tropini
How climate change could make fungal diseases worse
Knowable Magazine
Interview with Arturo Casadevall
The Age of AI
Maclean’s
Articles by Jeff Clune, Yoshua Bengio and Jackie C.K. Cheung
It turns out we have a second brain — and it's our gut
National Post
Interview with Laurel Trainor
September 2023
The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2023
TIME
Profile of work by Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, Shakir Mohamed and Raquel Urtasun
Algorithm could predict outcomes after severe brain injuries, Western University researchers find
The Globe and Mail
Interview with Adrian Owen
What does it cost to try to stay young forever? Inside the hyped-up world of anti-aging
The Globe and Mail
Interview with Brett Finlay
Forgotten Memories May Remain Intact in the Brain
Scientific American
Profile of work by Tomás Ryan
August 2023
Scientists are on a quest to map the human body cell by cell, charting where and why disease happens
The Globe and Mail
Interview with Aviv Regev
Why we don’t have to worry about being sucked into the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way
Science Focus
Article by Katie Mack
If AI becomes conscious, how will we know?
Science
Profile of work by Megan Peters, Liad Mudrik, Yoshua Bengio and Adeel Razi
July 2023
Scientists report cosmic hum that may come from clusters of massive black holes
The Globe and Mail
Interview with Ingrid Stairs and Luis Lehner
Dr. AI and personal assistants? Here's what Canada could look like in 2050
CTV News
Interview with Rahul Krishnan, Vered Shwartz and Jackie Cheung
Canadian AI maven Yoshua Bengio issues stark warning to U.S. Senate
The Globe and Mail
Profile of work by Yoshua Bengio
June 2023
Is Consciousness More Like Chess or the Weather?
Nautilus
Interview with Anil Seth
Gene genius: how the placenta project is unlocking the secrets of our cells
The Guardian
Interview with Aviv Regev and Sarah Teichmann
Mum’s microbes might boost brain development of c-section babies
Nature
Profile of work by Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello
‘We want to ensure AI and other technologies are shaping the world we want to see’
The Toronto Star
Interview with Golnoosh Farnadi
May 2023
‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead
New York Times
Interview with Geoffrey Hinton
These 4 free apps can help you identify every flower, plant and tree around you
The Washington Post
Interview with Jeff Clune
Fungal attacks threaten global food supply, say experts
The Guardian
Profile of work by Eva Stukenbrock and Sarah Gurr
The science of today is the economy of tomorrow
The Hill Times
Op-ed by Leah Cowen
April 2023
AI Chatbots Can Diagnose Medical Conditions at Home. How Good Are They?
Scientific American
Interview with Marzyeh Ghassemi
Map of dark matter sheds new light on forces shaping the universe
The Globe and Mail
Interview with Richard Bond and Mark Halpern
How welcoming are communities to immigrants? Researchers design a new tool to find out
The Globe and Mail
Interview with Victoria Esses
AI science search engines are exploding in number — are they any good?
Nature
Interview with Meghan Azad
March 2023
How Loneliness Reshapes the Brain
Quanta Magazine
Profile of work by Danilo Bzdok
Instagram debuts age recognition AI in Canada. Some experts are skeptical
The Toronto Star
Profile of work by Melvyn Goodale
Dan Breznitz’s innovation prescription: Canada must forge its own economic path
The Logic
Interview with Dan Breznitz
From deepfakes to Bing's chatbot, AI-generated content is everywhere. Here's how to spot it.
Business Insider
Interview with Chelsea Finn
February 2023
Frightened by fungal zombies in The Last of Us? The real-life threat is terrifying, too
CBC
Interview with Leah Cowen and Arturo Casadevall
Researchers May Have Found a Way to Slow Human Aging
TIME
Profile of work by Daniel Belsky
NASA’s Webb Telescope Is Close To Detecting ‘Cosmic Dawn’
Forbes
Interview with Richard Ellis
Will ChatGPT change everything? 5 AI experts weigh in
Toronto Star
Interview with Graham Taylor
January 2023
From mushrooms to machine learning — CIFAR drills the deepest strata of innovation
Research Money
Interview with Stephen Toope
Conversations with Alexa: How robots are helping Canada’s aging population connect
Global News
Interview with Goldie Nejat
U of T researchers used AI to discover a potential new cancer drug — in less than a month
Toronto Star
Interview with Alán Aspuru-Guzik
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don’t Know It
Scientific American
Interview with Heather Graham
An Uncertain Future
La Presse (FR)
Interview with Yoshua Bengio
December 2022
It’s time for Canada to be the global research leader of tomorrow
The Hill Times
Op-ed by Stephen Toope and Alan Bernstein
The Year Without Germs Changed Kids
The Atlantic
Interview with Brett Finlay, Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello and Martin Blaser
Scientists Increasingly Can’t Explain How AI Works
Vice
Interview with Jeff Clune
Donation of $26-million boosts cosmic research in Montreal
The Globe and Mail
Profile of work by Victoria Kaspi and Matt Dobbs
November 2022
As Doubts Grow Over Self-Driving Vehicles, This Ambitious Upstart Rolls Out Its First Robot Trucks
Forbes
Profile of work by Raquel Urtasun
Canada's welcoming artificial intelligence research ecosystem
Nature
Interview with Elissa Strome
How a hunt for secret nuclear weapon tests led to the discovery of the most violent explosions in the Universe
Science Focus
Article by Katie Mack
What quantum technology means for Canada’s future
The Conversation
Op-ed by Stephanie Simmons
October 2022
The big idea: do we all experience the world in the same way?
The Guardian
Article by Anil Seth
Missing element for life may be present in ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus
Space.com
Profile of work by Jihua Hao
Covid-19 appears to affect memory less than other aspects of cognition
New Scientist
Profile of work by Adrian Owen
How the ‘Black Death’ Left Its Genetic Mark on Future Generations
The New York Times
Profile of work by Hendrik Poinar
Neurons in a dish learn to play Pong — what’s next?
Nature
Profile of work by Adeel Razi
September 2022
The U.S.’s huge investment in science and innovation demands an equivalent approach in Canada
The Globe and Mail
Op-ed by Alan Bernstein & Meric Gertler
Canadian researchers using machine learning to mitigate effects of climate change
CBC
Profile of work by David Rolnick
In Search of the Best Milk Recipe for Preemies’ Gut Bacteria
The Scientist
Profile of work by Meghan Azad
Low-calorie sweeteners might not be as good for us as we thought
National Geographic
Profile of work by Eran Elinav
What's the right age to get a smartphone?
BBC
Interview with Candice Odgers
August 2022
Canada's life sciences pipeline is clogged. Here's how we can fix it
The Globe and Mail
Op-ed by Leah Cowen
Four rising stars who are reshaping nanoscience
Nature
Profile of work by Zakaria Al Balushi
Self-Taught AI Shows Similarities to How the Brain Works
Quanta Magazine
Interview with Blake Richards
No music training? No problem: Even novices intuit complex music theory
Science
Profile of work by Isabella Peretz
July 2022
Those Beautiful James Webb Space Telescope Images Are Just the Beginning
Slate
Interview with Katie Mack
What Big Data Says About Psychedelics
Psychology Today
Article by Danilo Bzdok
Old computer technology points the way to future of quantum computing
The Record
Interview with Stephanie Simmons
Discovery of 'young' deep groundwater tells surprising tale
Phys Org
Profile of work by Jennifer McIntosh
In Experiment, AI Successfully Impersonates Famous Philosopher
Vice
Interview with Daniel Dennett