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Carved and printed bird lino block and kozo fibre from the mulberry tree.

How the Art of Hand-Press Bookmaking is Promoting Sustainability and Fostering Community

Look inside an unexpected workshop where old processes help drive new methods for sustainable products for the future and where students find community in a sometimes-solitary major

8 Ways Artificial Intelligence is Making the World Better

It doesn’t come without serious ethical and societal concerns, but AI can also be a good thing. Researchers across UCalgary are using it to make informed decisions more quickly and solve complex problems.

Look at this Photograph. It Will Help Fix Your Energy-Leaking Home

Houses can lose heat at an alarming rate, but it’s hard to do anything about something you can’t see. For nearly a decade, high-tech residential heat maps have been making the invisible visible to encourage action.

Cartoon drawing of microbiome inside human digestive system.

The Microbiome Era

A fascination with gut health has hit the mainstream with microbiome-friendly everything, from skin care to snacks. Scientists, however, have long explored the community of bacteria that lives inside our bodies. Their research over the past two decades has driven change in how diseases are treated and prevented.

Man wearing virtual reality goggles and woman using tablet, old fashioned computer in background.

What if Instead of Living with Computers, We Lived in a Computer?

It’s a world where physical spaces and objects interact with technology. The computer is not a phone in your pocket or a screen on your desk. It’s all around you. That world is inevitable and researchers at UCalgary’s Programmable Reality Lab are helping to create it.

Special needs couple lying and using mobile phone

The Sex Talk for Everyone

For far too long, people with developmental and intellectual disabilities have been excluded from conversations about love, romance and pleasure. A new initiative crushes an unsexy taboo.

Who’s Afraid of Cancer?

Stress, anxiety and depression can leave cancer patients and their loved ones feeling helpless and hopeless. An increasingly valued and urgent discipline, psychosocial oncology is transforming the way people live with cancer

When Nine Million Viewers Learn a Little More About Something Really Complicated

Sometimes, a five-minute animated video is what is needed to break through the information clutter and start our education around mental health. Anees Bahji collaborates with TED-Ed to create those videos, and they’ve reached millions of people.

When Video Games Become the Sophisticated Texts of Higher Learning

We can learn a lot about each other and the rules we live by through how we play them

Rockets, Radio Waves and Risky Satellite Missions: 7 Ways Space Research is Taking Off in Calgary

For decades, space tools have been designed, built and operated by UCalgary’s makers and thinkers

From Waste to Wealth

A student implements a black soldier fly biowaste treatment method in Tanzania that empowers women, and could positively impact human health and the environment

This is Your Brain (and Body) on Alcohol

New low-risk alcohol consumption guidelines are a big change from long-held official recommendations. Nobody’s saying the party is over, but UCalgary experts make a convincing case to slow it down.