Hany Aziz hopes his research will change the future of electronic devices, making them cheaper and more flexible. His work on new materials can also be applied to solar panels and the future of green energy.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) selected nine researchers from the University of Waterloo for increased funds to support their research deemed to be novel or potentially transformative, and likely to contribute to groundbreaking advances.
Oil and gas wells that leak methane, a potent greenhouse gas, are a bigger risk to the environment than fracking, according to a report by University of Waterloo researchers.
Leakage from oil and natural gas wells and the resulting greenhouse gas emissions present is of greater environmental concern than fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, say environmental scientists and engineers at the University of Waterloo and Geofirma Engineering, Ltd.
“Hydraulic fracturing is not the main risk,” said Maurice Dusseault, a professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences. “The main risk is poor well completion that can cause methane leakage.”
You may want to rethink cheering up your friends who have low self-esteem because chances are they don't want to hear it.
People with low self-esteem have overly negative views of themselves, and often interpret critical feedback, romantic rejections, or unsuccessful job applications as evidence of their general unworthiness. A new study from researchers at the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University found that they likely don't want you to try to boost their spirits.
When it comes to protecting your bones, doing the right combination of exercises can make all the difference, says a Waterloo kinesiology professor who helped draft new recommendations for people with osteoporosis.
“We propose a shift away from aerobic-only exercise regimes to those that emphasize strength training and balance training in addition to aerobic training, to achieve the greatest health benefits,” says Lora Giangregorio.
50 Shades of Grey has been credited with sparking a new era in women’s sexuality. For the first time women can claim — some without shame — that they read sexually explicit material and enjoy it.
Yet, long before women were publicly toting their copies of Fifty Shades, they were reading it on e-readers and discussing its content in online forums — a simple act that, according to two Waterloo researchers, is complicating our understanding of women’s sexuality.
New multicomponent exercise recommendations combine muscle strengthening and balance training as a means of reducing falls and resulting fractures for people living with osteoporosis
People with osteoporosis, and those at risk of developing it, can prevent bone loss, fractures and falls by combining specific types of exercises, says new recommendations that Osteoporosis Canada released today.
An affordable biofiltration water treatment system that uses extracts from seeds of the Moringa plant – known locally as malunggay or the tree of life – is set to begin an 18-month trial in the summer of 2014 in rural areas of the Philippines.
Teens who use menthol cigarettes smoke more cigarettes - an average of 43 per week - than youth who use non-menthols, a new Waterloo study has found.
“Our findings indicate that youth smoking of menthol cigarettes is a serious concern. It’s clear moving forward that we need new laws to ban all added flavours in all tobacco products," said Sunday Azagba, lead author on the paper published in Cancer Causes and Control.