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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 Senior Communications Officer Liz Do.
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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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