Diseases transmitted from wildlife are a common threat to livestock and humans in Alberta, according to new research by University of Alberta biologists.

As rain offers a welcome relief to fire-scorched Australia, concerns over flash floods and freshwater contamination cast a shadow on the joy.

Where do we come from? University of Victoria astrophysicist Ruobing Dong is revolutionizing the field of observational planet formation to find out.

Biology professor Bryan Neff will be – ahem – fishing for answers with his latest project exploring the health of Canada’s 200-plus freshwater fish species in the face of increasing (mostly human-made) challenges.

Diners may soon find more farmed oysters and fewer Atlantic salmon on their plates as climate change warms Canada’s Pacific coast.

Before starting graduate school, University of Delaware doctoral student Melinda Bahruth said she never thought she would be on a research vessel or conducting geological research at sea.

Cancer cells are a wily adversary.

Advances in biomimicry – creating biological responses within non-biological substances – will enable synthetic materials to behave in ways that were typically only found in Nature.

When our sun belches out a hot stream of charged particles in Earth’s general direction, it doesn’t just mess up communications satellites. 

People with diabetes are at a higher risk of fracturing a bone than the general population.