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It's easy to see discarded plastic as nothing more than waste. Much of it ends up in landfill, breaking down into microplastics that seep into water supplies and threaten the environment, and potentially human health. But ...

The combination of extreme weather conditions, like atmospheric rivers, and aging infrastructure is putting increasing pressures on Canadian highways, bridges and tunnels—many of which are almost 100 years old. UBC Okanagan ...

Human urine—often flushed away without thought—could be key to making agriculture and wastewater treatment more sustainable and energy efficient, according to new research from the University of Surrey. Although urine only ...

A single episode of delirium—a state of confusion and agitation—in hospitalized older adults is a significant risk factor for other serious health complications including fractures, stroke and sepsis, a University of Queensland ...

Individuals living with sickle cell disease in sub-Saharan Africa face disparities in treatment and health care access when compared with those in other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) or high-income countries (HICs), ...

In a large sample of United States (U.S.) Special Operations Forces personnel, researchers found that a higher prevalence of intracranial aneurysms was independently associated with greater repeated blast exposure. Results ...

In a new study, researchers introduce the dual threat model of antisemitism, which highlights the central role of perceived Jewish power in fueling antisemitism, and they discuss its implications for interventions aimed at ...

The cerebellum, a part of the brain traditionally associated with balance and movement, is also important for more complex tasks like reading and spelling, a University of Alberta study suggests.

A new study tracking 25 European countries from 2017 to 2023 documents a problematic reality: when droughts strike, hydropower and other renewables don't work as well as they might. As a result, countries have to fire up ...

Aggressive policing tactics like stop-and-frisk are linked to worse newborn health outcomes in neighborhoods where such tactics are most pervasive, University of Oregon research finds. Babies of non-Hispanic Black mothers ...

In a future perhaps not too far away, artificial intelligence and its subfield of machine learning (ML) tools and models, could help orthopedic physicians predict when a patient might encounter a bone fracture and what type.

Determining the presence of a protein in non-tumor cells within the cancer microenvironment could be one of the keys to establishing prognosis in patients with colon and rectal cancer. It may also help identify which patients ...