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Microbes can alter the minds of mouse mothers and disrupt their natural instinct to nurture their young.
Thanks to the discovery of five twinkling galaxies in a rare alignment, astronomers have been able to calculate — for the first time — the properties and geometry of an invisible gas cloud in space.
'Science 4.0' is real. It is about a revolution in which science is an integral part of society.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution failed to deliver; it's time that we put our faith once again in hard science.
Breeding cats for exaggerated facial features might have hindered our ability to understand them.
The tiny air pollutants known as PM2.5, emitted by vehicles, factories and power plants, aren’t just a hazard for lungs. A study finds more brain shrinkage in older women exposed to pollution.
Public health recommendations have always been a hard sell. Resistance to new behaviors – like the mask-wearing and social distancing advised during the COVID-19 pandemic – is part of human nature.
Thousands of chemical compounds in wildfire smoke are interacting with each other and sunlight as the smoke travels. For people downwind, it can become more toxic over time.
Results from the world’s longest running large-scale international assessment of maths and science show Australia has significantly improved in Year 8 maths and science, and Year 4 science.
Healing is a complicated process. As people age, higher rates of disease and the fact that old cells lose the ability to divide slow this process down.
Hopefully, Joe Biden’s presidency will mark the end of using cherry-picked science to suit a political agenda. As Trump's successor, however, he's placed in a difficult position.
The 2020 wildfire season shattered records across the West. It's part of a trend that's headed in a dangerous direction.
Automation in South Africa's auto industry may have made car manufacturing easier, faster, and more productive but it comes with social and employment costs.
The 17th-century plague of Italy has lessons for today: Back then, too, people broke public health laws, but there were clergymen who intervened.
Scientists explain what you need to know about the COVID-19 risks in the air, from how aerosols form to how to keep kids safe on a school bus.
About half of environmental scientists working for government had been prohibited from communicating scientific information.
Three new studies show corticosteroids can reduce deaths in critically ill COVID-19 patients. But what about other patients?
New research points to why reopening elementary schools is the safest bet and what else needs to happen for schools to have the best chance of staying open.
Students are taught isolated and impersonal facts without understanding the history and processes of how scientists know what we know — an education in scientific literacy.
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Director, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto
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