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“I don’t think war in Ukraine is in the cards,” says John Jaworsky, an assistant professor of political science in the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Arts. “But this is a situation in which minor incidents could lead to an escalation of the conflict, even if no one initially planned to move toward a hot war. This is a dangerous game being played by the Russian military.”

High-caffeine energy drinks are designed to give you a boost, but a new study has found that teens prone to depression, and those who use drugs and alcohol, are more likely to consume them.

“While it remains unclear why these associations exist, the trend is a concern because of the high rate of consumption among teenagers,” said Sunday Azagba, a scientist with the Propel Centre for Population Health Impact at the University of Waterloo and lead author on the paper.

Researchers are calling for limits on teen’s access to the drinks and reduction in the amount of the caffeine in each can.

Would the pain and agony of shovelling snow be less if you knew you were charging your cell phone at the same time as you shivered?

University of Waterloo physicists have succeeded in measuring how the surfaces of glassy materials flow like a liquid, even when they look solid.

“Common sense would tell you that if a material is solid, it’s solid everywhere. But we’ve shown that a solid isn’t a solid everywhere,” says James Forrest, a professor in Waterloo’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.  “It’s almost solid everywhere -  except a few nanometers at the surface.”

University of Waterloo physicists have succeeded in measuring how the surfaces of glassy materials flow like a liquid, even when they should be solid.

A series of simple and elegant experiments were the solution to a problem that has been plaguing condensed matter physicists for the past 20 years.

Understanding the mobility of glassy surfaces has implications for the design and manufacture of thin-film coatings and also sets practical limits on how small we can make nanoscale devices and circuitry.

Bin Ma is a computer scientist helping researchers around the world find medical treatments for illnesses like cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

Bin Ma and PEAKS co-founder Ming Li

A new testing protocol developed by chemists at the University of Waterloo will revolutionize current drug testing methods at major sporting events like the Olympics.

A team of chemists from the Faculty of Science has developed a fully automated method for analyzing urine. The research, funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) , appears in a recent issue of Analytica Chimica Acta.

Officials at the Winter Olympics in Sochi are expected to have performed nearly 2,500 drug tests in 17 days, and a new protocol developed by chemists at the University of Waterloo will revolutionize the current drug testing methods at major sporting events in the future.

A team of chemists from the Faculty of Science at Waterloo developed a fully automated method for analyzing urine. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) funded the research, which appears in a recent issue of Analytica Chimica Acta.

Involvement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) sport groups makes gay and lesbian athletes feel better about their sexual identity and helps them come out in their everyday lives, according to research from the University of Waterloo.