Eric Brown, a professor of biochemistry and biomedical sciences, explains how saliva testing could hold the key for widespread, accessible COVID-19 testing — which could then help health authorities beat the pandemic once and for all.

Millions of Canadians juggle employment and informal caring. With the pandemic drastically changing working life, employers have an opportunity to embrace a caregiver-friendly work culture.

Yusuf is the first McMaster faculty member to receive the prestigious McLaughlin Medal from the Royal Society of Canada.

McMaster researchers have developed a new technique that pulls the genomes of hundreds of animals and thousands of plants – many of them long extinct – from less than a gram of soil, offering a much richer picture of the past than was previously possible.

More than 70 nuclear experts, students and government representatives from Canada, the U.S. and the European Union gathered virtually for the Small Modular Reactors (SMR) Hackathon to share their expertise on nuclear energy solutions.

New research suggests that dramatic environmental changes accompanying the shift or melting of continental glaciers played a key role as American mastodons moved north from their southern ranges.

Donald Trump’s attack on racial injustice is an attempt to replace historical consciousness with historical amnesia, Henry Giroux writes. It's a racialized politics of organized forgetting.

Unions must recruit and sustain a critical mass of women — particularly visible minority and LGBTQ women — into leadership roles, so the changing face of Canada’s workers is reflected in their union leadership.

Ishwar K. Puri, Dean of Engineering, says our responses to the pandemic are helping us reimagine the future of higher education and offers a blueprint for going forward.

The UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health is a global leader in research on world water issues, including water-borne diseases and ways to address the expected increase in global water demand as conventional water sources diminish. 

When the sea lamprey invaded the Great Lakes, lake trout — once a top predator fish, and the lamprey's preferred food — were transformed into Swiss cheese and began dying out. Until scientists developed one of the most successful invasive-species-management programs in the world.

Canadian and the US have invested more than $22.8 billion in cleaning up the Great Lakes in the last 35 years -- and that's money well-spent, a new article finds, with every dollar toward cleanup catalyzing more than $3 worth of community revitalization.

Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr, and John F. Kennedy are among the luminaries whose letters are featured in an online exhibit at McMaster focused on philosopher, peace advocate and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell.

In households with children, the ramifications of shelter-at-home measures — which shuttered schools and child-care centres across the country while also prohibiting families from soliciting support with child care — have fallen disproportionately to women.

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) is investing more than $800,000 to support the work of 15 McMaster researchers. 

There's no indication that handling cash increases your chance of catching COVID-19. But that hasn't stopped countries around the world from looking at digital currencies.

To navigate this reopening, we need a balance between the advice of health professionals and the alarm of economists, writes business Dean Len Waverman.