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Professor Pakpong Chirarattananon (MIE) draws inspiration from nature to design robots that fly, hop, crawl or seamlessly combine multiple modes of locomotion. (photo courtesy of Pakpong Chirarattananon)

‘Simplicity wins when designing bio-inspired robots’: Meet MIE Professor Pakpong Chirarattananon

An AI model segments flames and smoke in aerial footage, helping researchers track wildfire growth and build more accurate predictions. (photo courtesy of Steven Waslander)

New AI prediction model could transform how Canada fights wildfires

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Ask Alan: Capstone team creates AI tool to help students study

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Tandem perovskite solar cell

International research collaboration produces all-perovskite tandem solar cell with high efficiency, record voltage

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Professor Ariel Chan receives the 2022 Wighton Fellowship

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A new model for innovation? How Elizabeth and Aled Edwards are driving an open science revolution

An image from the Milky Way Galaxy overlaid with molecules of ammonia, phosphine, hydrogen fluoride, ethanol, carbon dioxide, and aspirin. Image: Erin Warner

Exploring ‘chemical space’ with Professor Anatole von Lilienfeld