Your New Favorite Number: Part 3

Cover Image: Lilly Guilbeault, April 2026 By: Flore Devernay, Contributing Writer In 1608, Peter Roth published Arithmetica Philosophica, where he … More

Your new favorite number: Part 2

Cover Image: Lilly Guilbeault, March 2026 By: Flore Devernay, Contributing Writer We’ve all had to endure the excruciatingly painful task … More

Your new favorite number: Part 1

Cover Image: Lilly Guilbeault, March 2026 By: Flore Devernay, Contributing Writer We’ve all had to endure the excruciatingly painful task … More

What do a broccoli, a lightning strike, and blood vessels have in common?

Cover Image: Drawing by Rachel Gerllays, February 2026 By: Flore Devernay, Contributing Writer Before you read any further, go out … More

The quantum route to consciousness

A theory to explain how we are conscious which is so bizarre, it just might be true…

Space above earth is turning into a junkyard

Debris from past launches puts future space exploration at risk. For satellites and other spacecraft, space around Earth is a perilous freeway of life and death.

Pythagoras: Triangles and triads

Written By: Yingke Liang Have you ever listened to western stringed music and enjoyed it? If you did, you owe … More

Alan Guth and the multiverse

Feature photo above: an artwork included in Yayoi Kusama’s “Infinity Obsession” exhibition. (Ivan Alvarado / Reuters) The content from this article … More

A weekend of engineering: MEC 2017

The Feature photo was taken from the McGill Engineering Competition Facebook page. Each year, a handful of McGill engineering students … More

Not sure about SURE?

McGill’s Summer Undergraduate Research in Engineering (SURE) Award gives undergraduate students a 16-week, full-time internship position at an engineering research … More

Battling on the shoulders of giants

In the 20th century, we were proposed with two revolutionary theories in physics: quantum mechanics and relativity. Quantum mechanics deals … More

[Profile] Felix Cormier, Marcel Georgin, Stephen Koelbl, and Robert Oda, development and characterization of a directional gamma-ray detector

Researchers dream about projects that go perfectly – protocols that work on the first attempt, equipment that doesn’t break, and results that … More

McGill students’ astronomy club: Out of this world

Between the COSMOS series, recently reintroduced with Neil deGrasse Tyson as host, and the BICEP2 discovery, the realm beyond our atmosphere has … More

Infinity Series II: Zero volume with infinite surface area

Ascending and Descending (M. C. Escher, Lithograph, 1960). This is the second entry of the “Infinity Series”, which will introduce … More

Infinity Series I: Finite area with infinite perimeter

This is the first entry of the “Infinity Series”, which will introduce you to the peculiar world of infinity. Today, … More

You are an eggplant (Q.E.D.)

I will now prove that you are an eggplant. Let We have that We can also conclude that Subtracting the … More

Black holes and dinosaurs

So the last topic was on the idea of infinity (remember that we have to be careful about infinity – … More

Guts, toes, and other reasons why physics isn’t so bad

In my experience, McGill students are a diverse bunch. However, there’s one question that we invariably ask one another. It’s … More

What is infinity?

To read more by Shunsuke: http://msurjblog.com/author/shunsukekatayama/ “I love you to infinity”, “I love you to infinity plus one”, “I love you … More