Economies routinely discard extracted materials and stress the environment, while individual projects designed to reuse resources fail to create widespread change. The researcher conducted 25 interviews with 30 people and held four workshops with 38 participants across Canada's construction industry.

Bansal, P. (. (2026). TRANSITIONING TO A CIRCULAR BUILT ENVIRONMENT THROUGH PROJECT ECOSYSTEMS. Long Range Planning, 102676. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2026.102676   Pratima Bansal

Doctors debate whether measuring pressure inside the skull improves recovery for children with severe brain injuries.

Lalgudi Ganesan, S. (2026). Intracranial Pressure Monitoring in Severe Brain Injury: Rethinking What We Measure, How We Act on It, and Which Children the Debate Leaves Behind. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1097/pcc.0000000000004036   Rishi Ganesan

Designing safe structures across Canada requires knowing the likelihood and strength of local tornado winds. Researchers analyzed recent records of tornado paths, storm intensities, lightning strikes, and population counts to create new hazard maps.

Liu, Y., Zhou, W., Hong, H., Sills, D., & Kopp, G. (2026). Mapping extreme Canadian tornado wind speed for structural and cladding design. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 278, 106619. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2026.106619   Gregory Kopp

Research partnerships between academic teams and community groups often face power imbalances, unclear roles, and communication barriers. To address these issues, the researchers created and applied guiding principles for inclusive collaboration and reviewed the challenges that arose.

Le Ber, M. J., Fryday-Field, K., van Roessel, L., Cram, J., Dhaliwal, J., El-Ayoubi, A., Kothari, A., Kteily-Hawa, R., Ochoa, L., Pardhan, S., & Tarawalley, M. (2026). How we embraced methodological and ethical challenges in our community–academic partnered research about equity in organizational leadership. Evidence & Policy, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648y2026d000000106   Anita Kothari

Scientists seek to understand what feeds giant black holes and how they evolve alongside their surrounding galaxies. Researchers analyzed telescope images of ninety-six galaxies, separating light from feeding black holes and stars to measure the galaxies' physical features.

Dewsnap, C., Barmby, P., & Gallagher, S. C. (2026). Separating the Optical to Near-Infrared Light of AGN and Their Host Galaxies. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 138(9), 094104. https://doi.org/10.1088/1538-3873/aea2cf   Pauline Barmby

Scientists seek to understand how complex carbon-based molecules form in the space surrounding aging stars. To investigate, researchers observed an aging, carbon-rich astronomical object using an infrared instrument on the James Webb Space Telescope.

Li, J., García-Hernández, D. A., Manchado, A., Das, D., Cami, J., Peeters, E., Sloan, G. C., Aringer, B., Bernard-Salas, J., Bhatt, C., Clark, N., Dinerstein, H. L., Gómez-Muñoz, M. A., Kraemer, K. E., Matsuura, M., Sahai, R., Sterling, N. C., Volk, K., Wahlgren, G. M., & Zijlstra, A. A. (2026). The JWST Proto-PAH Project: Detection of the Methyl Radical CH ₃ in the Highly Evolved C-rich Object SMP LMC 011. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1009(2), L47. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aea794   Jan Cami