Commercial vessels, particularly fishing boats, are known sources of ocean plastic, losing up to a million tons of plastic gear at sea every year. For this study, researchers looked beyond what ...

Genetic tweaks allowed early humans to stand, balance and walk on two legs instead of moving on all fours like other primates ...

Daniel Whiteson and Andy Warner’s upcoming book is a philosophical exploration of the humanity behind our desire to find ...

Decades of data shows that eating saturated fat raises LDL cholesterol levels and contributes to heart disease.

Independent fact-checkers have flagged key parts of Kennedy’s claims as inaccurate or misleading, noting that the studies he cites do not establish causation. The American College of Obstetricians and ...

A new study revealed music lovers over 70 have a 39% lower dementia risk, and playing instruments cuts their risk by 35%, ...

The MCAT paved the way for other standardized admission exams, like the SAT, and the many sleepless nights college-bound ...

Carvings uncovered in the Canadian Arctic may be the earliest portraits of the Vikings created in the Americas. But archaeologists have been puzzling over whether the artwork really shows the infamous ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth ...

Science isn’t always serious. Sometimes researchers ask questions that seem silly at first, like why toast lands butter-side ...

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of ...