In 2025, Dr. Mahumm Ghaffar and Dr. Maryam Bibi, both originally from Pakistan, became the first students to earn PhDs in subatomic physics from Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN). They were also the first doctoral graduates in this field in Newfoundland and Labrador.

New findings by a university-government research team show that levels of the marine bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus (Vibrio) have increased in tandem with…

Imagine helping a friend carry a couch from one room to another and somehow pivoting it around tight corners without scraping the walls. How is it that the two of you move as if you share the same mind?

New research out of the University of New Brunswick (UNB) may make aluminum smelting more efficient and sustainable while also creating a source of green, zero-carbon fuel and supporting sectors that rely on aluminum materials.

From artificial muscles made with everyday materials to robotic skin with human-like sensitivity, Dr. John Madden brings together materials science, electronics…

Can your brain attune itself to a foreign language before you’re even born?

To help clinicians choose the right drugs to treat fungal infections, researchers have classified the protective effects of some 4000 mutations in Candida…

During Jess Speedie’s first year at university, someone told her, “We owe everything on Earth to the rotating disk of gas and dust that existed around our sun…

Dr. Min Yang is exploring what lurks beneath our oceans. She is studying the impact of abandoned, lost or discarded fishing gear. Also known as “ghost gear”…

The world urgently needs solutions to its greenhouse gas emissions problem—and small modular reactors (SMRs) could be one of them. SMRs are compact nuclear…