When will food allergies end?
For a long time, doctors had nothing to offer people with food allergies. Now, a new approach is beginning to prove its worth: «desensitization». But it's far from a miracle cure.
Quebec's 10 discoveries of the year
For the 26th year, our jury has selected the most astounding Quebec discoveries of 2018. The winners pay tribute to the ingenuity, intelligence and insatiable curiosity of our researchers.
The world is beautiful
Researchers from different disciplines join forces to understand the patterns and shapes that surround us.
Farmer and pharmacist ants
Costa Rican ants have antifungal defenses that could one day be used in hospitals.
Retreat for primates
Visit the country's only chimpanzee sanctuary.
Phosphorus by the ton
How much phosphorus can the soil store before discharging the excess into watercourses?
Well-intentioned pirates
Hackers glean information from the Web to find missing persons.
Fog in a bottle
Scientists want to understand how these ground-based clouds form and disappear.
The modest revolutionary
Last autumn, Canadian Donna Strickland won the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work on lasers.
Carole Lévesque, the Aboriginal ally
Over the past 45 years, anthropologist Carole Lévesque has forged valuable ties with aboriginal peoples.
