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Life Sciences - 08.01.2024
How does one species become many?
Using data on four species of Darwin's finches on the Galápagos Islands, researchers led by McGill University confirm a long-standing hypothesis that species diversity evolves through adaptation to different resources. Evolutionary biologists have long suspected that the diversification of a single species into multiple descendent species - that is, an "adaptive radiation" - is the result of each species adapting to a different environment.
Health - 08.01.2024

Hospitalized patients are more complex than they used to be. That's the finding of a newly published UBC study which set out to measure something researchers have been hearing anecdotally from hospital-based health-care workers over the past two decades. As it turns out, they weren't imagining things.