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A dinosaur skeleton at the Royal Tyrell Museum in Alberta.

Life finds a way: Dinosaur bone discovery holds promise for medical implants 

Using nanoscale electron microscopy, McMaster researchers found a 71-million-year-old dinosaur fossil shares a feature with modern human bone.  
Two people in lab coats hold looking at a translucent material in a lab.

A better bond: McMaster team chemically re-engineers silicone to unlock new applications in medicine

The new material has the flexibility and strength of the silicone currently used, but also resists clotting and doesn't provoke the human body into rejecting it.
Ali Emadi and student researchers gather around a car engine.

McMaster, National Research Council partner to establish Southern Ontario Innovation Hub in Hamilton

Anchored at McMaster’s Automotive Resource Centre within McMaster Innovation Park, the Southern Ontario Innovation Hub will bring together industry, academia and government in a single, co-located environment.

Moo-ving research: Student projects combine agriculture and AI

Capstone teams highlight the growing intersection of engineering and agriculture with projects improving cow health, welfare and dairy farm efficiency.
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Ten McMaster researchers named Canada Research Chairs

Eight are newly named CRCs, and two have had their chairs renewed.
Tohid Didar wearing a lab coat, sitting in a lab, smiling.

Tohid Didar named Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering

The Engineering professor enters rare territory with the appointment, already being a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Three students at the edge of the pool in the nuclear reactor

Mapping the core: Students customize underwater drone to study nuclear reactor

Engineering physics students measured radiation dose rates in McMaster Nuclear Reactor pool to support ongoing data collection and maintenance planning.  
Illustration showing the relative sizes of explanets in our earth

New findings about exoplanets challenge theories of planet formation

The most commonly found planets in our galaxy don't orbit the most commonly found stars. New analysis from McMaster researchers explores the gap created by this disparity.
Nabil Bassim, wearing a suit, seated at a desk, turns toward the camera and smiles

McMaster and industry partners awarded $7.5M to lead semiconductor research

The collaboration between McMaster researchers, TechInsights and Fibics Incorporated will leverage state-of-the-art instrumentation at the Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy for next-generation semiconductor R&D.
A man in a suit smiles at something off-camera.

‘We bring the human in’

As the world of work is redefined by AI, communications professor Alex Sévigny is preaching the gospel of opportunity – and the necessity of change.
Mike Brook, wearing a lab coat and rubber gloves, holds up a fragment of rubber to look at it closely. IN the corner is a

Rubber reborn: McMaster startup converts tire waste into sustainable solutions

Mike Brook’s Neopara Materials combines a novel ingredient with tire rubber to create new materials - like hockey pucks.
Paulin Coulibaly in front of his computer

Researcher launches next phase of Canada-wide flood forecasting network

With a federal investment of $1.4 million and further support from industry partners, Paulin Coulibaly's McMaster-based FloodNet research network will continue to focus on strengthening flood preparedness across Canada.