Solar panels installed atop Science World in $39-million retrofit - Daily Hive

Canada has two urgent housing jobs: build more affordable homes and preserve existing ones. Yet, we often assume they must be addressed separately when there is an opportunity for us to tackle them together. The Government of Canada has already sought to address the need for greater scale in new housing quickly through the establishment of Build Canada Homes (BCH), which recently became a Crown corporation. Its mandate is to build affordable housing and leverage the market to catalyze the adoption of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) by increasing the use of factory-built and prefabricated construction. As BCH is still in its early stages, there is an opportunity to explicitly include whole-building retrofits in its mandate. New construction and retrofits are not identical, but they rely on many of the same foundations such as off-site manufacturing, skilled workers, early coordination and a steady pipeline of projects. Bringing them together could support both the construction of new affordable homes and preservation of existing ones.

Venture will harness clinical data and laboratory tissue models in quest for potential new therapies

Brain beholder: Barbara Finlay, pictured here in the Wilder Brain Collection that she curated at Cornell University, spent her 40-year career studying how the brain develops and evolved. Finlay, who died on 12 September, championed the idea that developmental constraints dictate how evolution sculpts brains, a concept she used to model the timing of hundreds of events and align them across mammalian species.

A mother bat has one crucial challenge: find her own babies among hundreds of other bats in the colony. Making sure she cares for and nurses only her own offspring is important to ensuring their survival. Among Japanese house bats, mothers keep track of their pups using the babies' isolation calls.