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The world is watching

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 Senior Communications Officer Liz Do.

Vanity Fair | In the shadows: the orphans COVID left behind

December 15, 2021
brain scan

WIRED | Your Brain Is an Energy-Efficient 'Prediction Machine'

November 28, 2021

CIFAR in the News

The Globe and Mail | How AI will change what happens when you see a doctor

November 26, 2021
DNA

Scientific American | Life is complicated—literally, astrobiologists say

November 23, 2021
Brain

New Scientist | Why are we conscious? The answer lies in other animals’ heads

November 17, 2021
Lab technology

MIT Technology Review | This chemist is reimagining the discovery of materials using AI and automation

October 27, 2021
Climate change

CNN | This website helps you imagine what extreme climate change will do to your home

October 14, 2021
Surveillance cameras

Washington Post | Modern capitalism is inseparable from surveillance

September 22, 2021
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TRUSTED EXPERTISE

Cut through the noise.

Our community of researchers, and members of our executive team, are regularly featured in the world's most trusted news outlets, including the BBC, The Economist, The Globe & Mail, the Hill Times, National Geographic, Nature, the New York Times, and Science.

Ice age mammoth and horse DNA found in soil samples left in freezer
Gizmodo
Profile of work by Hendrik Poinar

In the shadows: the orphans COVID left behind
Vanity Fair
Profile of work by Charles Nelson

Scientists use extreme stars to test the limits of Albert Einstein's greatest theory
Newsweek
Profile of work by Ingrid Stairs

What children lose when their brains develop too fast
The Wall Street Journal
Profile of work by Allyson Mackey

Your Brain Is an Energy-Efficient 'Prediction Machine'
WIRED
Profile of work by Blake Richards and Konrad Kording

A critical mass of learning at Mila, Canada
Nature
Profile of advances made through the CIFAR Pan-Canadian AI Strategy

A former Uber executive takes a fresh approach to self-driving vehicles
The Wall Street Journal
Profile of work by Raquel Urtasun

Why are we conscious? The answer lies in other animals’ heads
The New Scientist
Interviews with Anil Seth and Daniel Dennett

How AI will change what happens when you see a doctor
The Globe and Mail
Interviews with Bo Wang and Frank Rudzicz

It's time to fear the fungi
WIRED
Profile of work by Alberto Casadevall

Can a digital reality be jacked directly into your brain?
WIRED
Profile of work by Nancy Kanwisher

Life is complicated—literally, astrobiologists say
Scientific American
Profile of work by Heather Graham

Anil Seth finds consciousness in life’s push against entropy
Quanta
Profile of work by Anil Seth

Facebook's own data is not as conclusive as you think about teens and mental health
NPR
Interview with Candice Odgers

This website helps you imagine what extreme climate change will do to your home
CNN
Profile of work led by Yoshua Bengio

Cleaner Fish Alter Behavior if Partners Can See Them “Cheating”
The Scientist
Profile of work by Katherine McAuliffe

This chemist is reimagining the discovery of materials using AI and automation
MIT Technology Review
Profile of work by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Amazon joins race for quantum computer with new Caltech center
Washington Post
Profile of work led by John Preskill

Neighbours fear that Afghan refugees could spark civil conflict
The Economist
Profile of work by Yang-Yang Zhou

Modern capitalism is inseparable from surveillance
The Washington Post
Op-ed coauthored by Kenneth Lipartito

Canada needs a real innovation strategy – now
The Globe and Mail
Op-ed coauthored by Dan Breznitz

Zebra Finches can recognize songs by their beat
Futurity
Profile of work by Aniruddh Patel

Ancient lake in Mars’s Gale crater may have actually been a small pond
New Scientist
Profile of work by Joseph Michalski

Prior COVID Infection Doesn't Guarantee Good Immunity: Study
HealthDay
Profile of work by Thomas McDade

The Poop About Your Gut Health and Personalized Nutrition
WIRED
Profile of work by Brett Finlay

Human Brain Patterns May Help Build a Better AI System
Medscape
Profile of work by Blake Richards

New Approach Could Boost the Search for Life in Otherworldly Oceans
Scientific American
Profile of work by Heather Graham

Physicists See Light Echoing From Behind a Black Hole for the First Time
Gizmodo
Profile of work by Roger Blandford

Breastfeeding for any amount of time linked to lower blood pressure in toddlers, study finds
CNN
Profile of work by Meghan Azad

India has become an ‘electoral autocracy.’ Its covid-19 catastrophe is no surprise.
Washington Post
Op-ed by Prerna Singh

Waabi, the rare autonomous vehicle startup with a woman CEO, raises $83.5 million
The Verge
Profile of work by Rachel Urtasun

Quantum computers are already detangling nature’s mysteries
WIRED
Profile of work by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

NASA sends squids from Hawaii into space for research
The Washington Post
Profile of work by Margaret McFall-Ngai

Astronomers work out when the first stars shone
BBC
Profile of work by Richard Ellis

Newly detailed nerve links between brain and other organs shape thoughts, memories, and feelings
Science
Profile of work by Catherine Tallon-Baudry

Canada must act fast to prepare for the quantum age
iPolitics
Cites the CIFAR Pan-Canadian AI Strategy as a model for a national quantum strategy

Earth’s underground worlds may run on radioactive decay
The Atlantic
Profile of work by CIFAR's Earth 4D Program

How AI can help Canada’s post-pandemic recovery
The Hill Times
Opinion by Elissa Strome

Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All Over the World
Scientific American
Interview with Arturo Casadevall and Matthew C. Fisher

AI has a compute problem. There’s a Canadian approach to solving it.
The Globe and Mail
Opinion outlining the role of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy in addressing the need for compute capacity

Federal council on COVID-19 variants gets to work
Global TV's The West Block
Interview with Alan Bernstein

Covid Lockdowns Prevented Other Infections. Is That Good?
WIRED
Interview with Tamara Giles-Vernick, Brett Finlay and Martin Blaser

Damage to a Protective Shield around the Brain May Lead to Alzheimer’s and Other Diseases
Scientific American
First-person account by Daniela Kaufer

Federal budget promises more funding for innovative technologies, including artificial intelligence, genomics research and quantum computing
The Globe and Mail
Notes federal investment in the CIFAR Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy

How Plant 'Vaccines' Could Save Us From A World Without Fruit
Discover Magazine
Interview with Hailing Jin

To Close the Gender Gap in Wages, We Need to Start Young
Scientific American
Opinion by Katherine McAuliffe

The taste for fermented food goes back a long way
The Economist
Interview with Katherine Amato

Can AI Combat COVID-19?
TVO's The Agenda (video)
Interview with Marzyeh Ghassemi

Governments investing in new vaccine-manufacturing plant in Toronto
Toronto Star
Interview with Alan Bernstein

Which COVID-19 vaccine is best? Experts say it’s the first one that’s offered to you.
Toronto Star
Interview with Alan Bernstein 

Ottawa’s $40-million D-Wave funding part of forthcoming quantum strategy: Source.” 
The Logic
Notes CIFAR Pan-Canadian AI Strategy as a model for a quantum strategy

Montreal, Centre of the A.I. World. (3-part podcast series)
Radio-Canada (English).
Interviews with Elissa Strome, Doina Precup, Joelle Pineau, Yoshua Bengio, Blake Richards, Yann LeCun

“Artificial Neural Nets Finally Yield Clues to How Brains Learn.”
Quanta Magazine
Interview with CIFAR fellows Konrad Kording, Blake Richards, Yoshua Bengio

Isolation and sanitation during COVID-19 may affect human microbiome, scientists say
CTV News
Interview with Brett Finlay 

Exercise vs. Diet? What Children of the Amazon Can Teach Us About Weight Gain. 
New York Times
Interview with Samuel Urlacher  

Is it possible to mix-and-match COVID-19 vaccines?
Maclean's
Interview with Alan Bernstein

Science gave us excellent vaccines. Why bend the rules?
Globe & Mail
Opinion by CIFAR president & CEO Alan Bernstein

Life on Mars? Billion-year-old water found near Timmins could offer glimpse into the past
Toronto Star
Profile of work by CIFAR program co-director Barbara Sherwood-Lollar

America Can’t Even Produce the Things It Invented
New York Times
Opinion co-authored by CIFAR fellow Dan Breznitz

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