People with stronger relationships and high levels of trust in their community were more likely to plan to get vaccinated for COVID-19, highlighting the need to boost societal supports to strengthen vaccine efforts.
A 30-year-old genetic mystery has been solved. It has previously been established that touch can trigger stress reactions in plants.
A diet rich in plant-based foods with less red meat can help patients with coronary and peripheral artery disease, a McMaster-led study shows. (Shutterstock photo)
A new study by researchers at Lund University supports the notion that patients with type 2 diabetes patient should be divided into subgroups and given individualised treatment.
McMaster researchers have developed a low-cost COVID-19 test that is portable and easy to use in the field, providing results in less than an hour and making early warning surveillance of infectious diseases more accessible to remote communities. (Shutterstock image)
A stubborn and dangerous rare yeast pathogen known as Lodderomyces elongisporus is behind two outbreaks in a neonatal intensive care unit in Delhi, India.
The ostrich is genetically wired to adapt to rising or falling temperatures
The rare metal terbium has been found in an exoplanet’s atmosphere for the first time.
After many years, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has sequenced and characterized the entire genome of oats. This opens up for breeding healthier oats with even better nutritional content, and growing oats in a more environmentally sustainable way.
Frontotemporal dementia begins relatively early compared to other forms of dementia.
Polyurethane locks in the antimicrobial power of tea tree and cinnamon oils. The new technology could start making public spaces safer within a year.
Open-source software enables researchers to see materials in 3D while they're still on the electron microscope
The emergence of a mysterious area in the South Atlantic where the geomagnetic field strength is decreasing rapidly, has led to speculation that Earth is heading towards a magnetic polarity reversal.
The images compare experimental (left) and simulated (right) reaction intermediate in the formation of a benzene-like compound with single bonds.
Unhealthy air in downtown San Francisco due to the Napa Glass fire, one of the many large wildfires in 2020. Photo by Bjorn Bakstad
Researchers, led by Professor Amit Badyopadhyay, center, have led efforts to use 3D printing for designing alloys. Photo pre-2020.
A captive Polar Bear in the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Powell, OH, shows identical fat, carbohydrate/ protein ratio preferences with polar bears in the wild as it selects from purified lard blocks and blocks of seal meat. Photo courtesy of Devon Sabe, Columbus Zoo.
The environment in which breast cancer arises –the interplay between the patient’s BMI, tumour size and cancer-specific proteins –is of importance for the prognosis.
When asthmatics’ respiratory tracts are exposed to dust mites, their immune response becomes less effective, which can lead to a weaker immune system.
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a new method for studying age-related brain disorders.