Firefighters entering a burning building, and search and rescue teams at sea will be among the first to benefit from a new military-grade technology that uses infrared light to see through smoke, fog and even the dark of night. Read more.

Residents living in a rural village outside of Bengaluru, India can now get their produce to market year-round thanks to a Canadian innovation that could become the gold standard for future road construction. Read more.

Two groundbreaking discoveries by NeuroDevNet-supported researchers could contribute to the development of a less expensive and faster screening tool to identify young children, and even infants, with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Read more.

A Canadian-led research effort is first out of the gate with innovative solutions that will enable global suppliers and manufacturers to meet new environmental standards without sacrificing reliability. Read more.

Canada’s mining industry has tapped into the expertise of two small companies to solve two of the biggest challenges facing ultra-deep mining: the health and safety of workers and the high costs of ventilation. Read more.

MaRS Innovation (MI) is attracting global attention—and global investors—for a novel model that solves the three biggest challenges to early-stage commercialization: generating robust deal flow, financing young companies and recruiting experienced entrepreneurs. Read more.

Helping his grandmother navigate the icy sidewalks of Winnipeg as a boy and witnessing her fear of falling helped motivate Steve Robinovitch to pursue research focused on keeping vulnerable seniors safer. Read more.

Public Safety Canada and the Smart Cybersecurity Network (SERENE-RISC) are teaming up to tackle one of the biggest challenges facing online security: persuading Canadians to adopt practices that have been scientifically proven to work. Read more.

A Canadian technology that could outsmart cancer scored a major investment in December from Roche, a pharmaceutical giant with more than 600 employees in Canada and over 90,000 globally. The licensing deal, worth up to US$140 million, is the largest ever made by the University of British Columbia (UBC), and much of the credit goes to PC-TRiADD – the commercialization arm of the Vancouver Prostate Centre. Read more.

The Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (CENGN) has helped two Ottawa high tech firms crack one of the biggest hurdles facing fibre optic networks—how to make them faster and more efficient while meeting the insatiable and often fluctuating demand created by the latest bandwidth-hungry applications. Read more.

Over five million Canadians lack access to a reliable source of safe drinking water, many of whom live in rural or First Nations communities. An investigation published by CBC in October, 2015 revealed that two-thirds of all First Nations communities in Canada had experienced at least one water problem between 2004 and 2014. Read more.