Journalists must get creative when covering science. The common theatrics of balancing two sides of an issue along with a hint of hype just won’t do.

Global Warming is real; there is no controversy. Dr. Bruno Tremblay, from McGill’s Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, tells us why.

Many undergraduate students feel it when doing summer research or beginning their graduate studies; they just don’t know how to express it. Many students are uncertain of the procedure and methodology to follow in order to perform efficient research.

Party of Sin is a game that tells the story of 7 characters condemned to Hell, who manage to escape their fiery prison and fight their way through Purgatory and Earth to finally make it to Heaven.

The Internet has become integral to our lives. While it is arguable whether its advent is nothing but beneficial, it is nevertheless the driving force behind one of the next great frontiers in technology. This new movement is that of smartphones.

As part of the Design Methodologies and Principles course (ECSE 211), students built robots to autonomously navigate a field of concrete bricks, find the scattered balls and “shoot” them in a goal!

Being a professor is not merely his profession but his passion. Through his determination and hard work, Dr. Chodavarapu is an inspiration for many students. Here, he unravels the wonders of Bio-engineering and gives us a peak into the life of a professor.

Biology and computing seem more distant than they really are. This article explains how DNA is represented in binary and features an introduction to entropy.

The McGill Lunar Excavator Team is a group of undergraduate engineering students collaborating to construct a fully automated lunar excavator. We are designing and building the excavator to compete in NASA’s 2011 Lunabotics Mining Competition at the Astronaut Hall of Fame Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

They are alive. These conductors, they are alive! And they are evolving at a terrific pace.

Interested in programming, problem solving and having a good time? Read on. We chatted with Marc Boscher from the CS Games Council about the upcoming event and why you should be a part of McGill’s team.

Richard Feynman, considered the father of nanotechnology, once said that “there’s plenty of room at the bottom.” One can understand his fascination with nanoscale and micrometers: The change in properties of ordinary materials at these scales is truly fascinating, be it the self-lubrication of silicon carbide (which gets smoother the more you run it) or the appearance of gold at nanoscale (it turns into the color red!).

The field of electronics has been in a state of flux since the invention of the Integrated Circuit (IC). The design and operation principles of devices, the materials used and the fabrication techniques have evolved significantly since then. Although the short-term goals that motivate this evolution (economics, market competition, military interests, etc.) vary considerably, the factors that have served as a consistent driving force for developments in electronics are operation speed and power consumption. In the language of electronics technology as we know it today, these two requirements translate into carrier mobility and operation voltage respectively.