McGill Men’s Soccer went into halftime a goal down, was outshot by more than two to one, finished the night with 10 men, and still found a way through to victory. The second-seeded Redbirds overturned an early deficit and went on to beat the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR)[Read More…]
Author: Clara Smyrski
Galaxy evolution: The expansion of our universe
Scientists have studied the expansion of the universe since the 1920s, when the field was pioneered using Albert Einstein’s field equations and theory of general relativity. This work posits that a universe filled with matter and energy cannot remain static: The space between galaxies is dynamically stretched over time. On[Read More…]
Harry Kane’s Ballon d’Or deserves a closer look at who awarded it
Football forward Harry Kane was cut from Arsenal Football Club’s academy when he was eight years old for not being athletic enough. Yet on Oct. 26 of this year, at the London Palladium, he lifted the Ballon d’Or, an award honouring the best-performing football players over the course of the[Read More…]
Off-road engineering
For most people, a car flipping sounds like a tragedy. But for McGill Baja Racing (Baja), it’s a routine part of their intense off-roading competitions. Every year, Baja, one of McGill’s Faculty of Engineering design teams, models and manufactures a new single-seat off-road vehicle. This off-roader is then raced in[Read More…]
Lessons from a singing mouse
Picture this: A 15-gram mouse climbs onto a rock, tilts its head back, and belts out a song. While this may sound like a fairy tale, singing mice are real, and are helping scientists discover new ground in evolutionary neurobiology. In last week’s edition of McGill’s Neurobiology and Behaviour seminar[Read More…]
Beyond the baseline: Racism persists in professional tennis
Two-time American Grand Slam champion Coco Gauff stopped playing mid-tennis rally against Chinese player Xinran Sun after seeing a flash from the scoreboards at the 2026 China Open. The chair umpire deemed the flash a hindrance under the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) rulebook, allowing the competitors to replay the point.[Read More…]
Take The Tribune’s Science & Technology midterm review quiz
1. McGill researcher Mark Brandon studied how mice responded to an environment that evoked fear. Which area of the brain was the fastest to respond and recall the scary memory associated with the environment? Cerebellum Extended amygdala Ventral hippocampus Superior colliculus 2. It is no secret that midterm season is[Read More…]
Big wins on small budgets: Inside MLB’s salary cap
In a league where money is often the foundation for success, the 2026 World Series delivered a surprising reminder that Major League Baseball (MLB)’s biggest spenders are not always its biggest winners. The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in a five-game tournament that concluded on Oct. 28, earning[Read More…]