Battles of sexes shown to spur adaptive sex differences - For video and explanations - Sex differences account for some of the most spectacular traits in nature: the wild colours of male guppies, the plumage of peacocks, tusks on walruses and antlers on moose.

Researchers at McGill, Univ. of Minnesota call for combining best of both approaches - Can organic agriculture feed the world?

McGill University has applied to play in the Ontario University Athletics football conference, which, if accepted, would move the Redmen from the Quebec league to Ontario by 2013, the team's 133rd season on the gridiron.

New grants and fellowships in pediatric leukemia research to be created at Université de Montréal, McGill University and INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier - Thanks to the Cole Foundation, pediatric leukemia research has again this year received support to recruit some of the best and brightest researchers in the field.

Howard Bergman to build on recent successes promoting family medicine at McGill - Family doctors are at the heart of efficient, sustainable health care systems and are a priority for McGill University's Faculty of Medicine.

Results provide fresh support for Einstein's cosmological constant - Analysis of data from the 10-meter South Pole Telescope is providing new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy, the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe.

Generous gift commemorates Institute's 60th anniversary - McGill University and its Institute of Islamic Studies have received a generous $1.25 million gift from the State of Qatar.

Loss of biodiversity appears to impact ecosystems as much as climate change, pollution and other major forms of environmental stress, according to a recent study by a team of researchers based at nine institutions in Canada, the United States and Sweden.

McGill physiology research team sheds light on how the brain processes what we sense - We rely on our senses in all aspects of our lives.

Finding provides unique opportunity to explore how galaxies and cosmic structure evolve - A McGill-led research team using the Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars.

Current research ethics focuses on protecting study participants, but according to bioethicists from McGill University and Carnegie Mellon University, these efforts fail to prevent harms that undermine the social value of research.

Record Funding for Québec - The McGill University and Génome Québec Innovation Centre is pleased to announce that they have been awarded funding totalling $7.6 million over a two-year period from Genome Canada's 2010 Competition: Science and Technology Innovation Centre Operations Support.

New website offers help and information for recovery from self-injury - To address the pressing need to provide online recovery-focused support for those who self-injure, McGill University professor Nancy Heath and Stephen Lewis, of Guelph University have developed a new website, Self-injury Outreach and Support (SiOS).

Iron is key to reversing global warming, Concordia and McGill research shows - Canada defines itself as a nation that stretches from coast to coast to coast.