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Children exposed to marijuana in the womb show a significant improvement in their ability to track moving objects at age four, according to new vision research. But researchers are warning that the results do not mean marijuana has a benefical effect on foetal development.

The study from the University of Waterloo, University of Aukland and Brown University appears today in the journal Scientific Reports.

Earth's oxygen-rich atmosphere emerged in whiffs from a kind of blue-green algae in shallow oceans around 2.5 billion years ago, according to new research from Canadian and US scientists.

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Students from across Canada will meet for the three-day conference to engage in discussion on reforming the international finance architecture, global demographic change and the impact of corruption in economic growth, trade, and development.

The meeting will be held to reflect an authentic UN and G20 experience for delegates and will feature a video address by the Turkish Ambassador to Canada. Turkey hosted the recent G20 meeting of world leaders.

Opening ceremony

Efforts over the past seven years to reduce tobacco use in China have been strikingly ineffective and leave tobacco use a top threat to the health and economic well-being of the world’s largest country, according to research findings by the University of Waterloo’s International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC Project). 

Research into entangled photons and arctic governance at the University of Waterloo was recognized recently as two promising graduate students received prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships to help them pursue and complete doctoral degrees.

Olaf Weber said:

"Costs of doing nothing will come up because climate change will have a negative impact on the whole economy because of environmental degradation, and societal impacts, such as migrations. Furthermore, in contrast to investments in climate change mitigation, costs of adaptation do not have a financial return on investment. They are just end-of-pipe solutions. The negative consequences of doing nothing were, for instance, the rejection of Keystone. Other countries do not like to import goods with high carbon footprints.”

Researchers are becoming increasingly worried that parts of the world are entering a post-antibiotic era where antibiotics are ineffective in treating common infections.

In preparation for the World Health Organizations first ever World Antibiotic Awareness Week, Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy is hosting a free public lecture to discuss antibiotic resistance, its effects and consequences.

The University of Waterloo broke ground on an innovative engineering building that will feature facilities designed to expand student-driven innovation and advanced research labs to develop emerging technologies that will help to boost Canada’s global competitiveness.

King is the recipient of the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction for his work, The Back of the Turtle. Among his other award-winning works of fiction and non-fiction are The Red Power Murders: A Dreadful Water Mystery, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, and Green Grass, Running Water.

The University of Waterloo broke ground this week on Engineering 7, an $88-million building that will feature some of the best engineering research and teaching facilities in the world.