Every year, around half a million children worldwide are born with a rare hereditary disease. 

When most people think about air pollution, they think of summertime haze, traffic or smokestack exhaust, wintertime inversions, or wildfire smoke.

Many chemotherapy drugs kill cancer cells by severely damaging their DNA.

Forest conservation can be a source of tension between competing priorities and interests from forestry, science, administration and nature conservation organisations. 

The future of European eels—a critically-endangered species—is under threat from toxic metals found in the rivers and lakes where they live, research by an international team including the University of Saskatchewan (USask) shows.

Smart electricity meters are useful because they allow energy utilities to efficiently track energy use and allocate energy production. 

Many people have heard of the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” a vast area of ocean between California and Hawaii where ocean currents concentrate plastic pollution. 

Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have come up with a way to manipulate tungsten diselenide (WSe2) —a promising two-dimensional material—to further unlock its potential to enable faster, more efficient computing, and even quantum information processing and storage. 

A broad class of materials called perovskites is considered one of the most promising avenues for developing new, more efficient solar cells.

The mineralocortoid receptor (MR) regulates water and sodium transport throughout cells and tissues, which is critical for controlling blood pressure and so, not surprisingly, the MR is common to all vertebrate animals.