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New findings of a multi-university research team show the pesticide DDT persists in remote lakes at concerning levels half a century after it was banned, affecting key aquatic species and potentially entire lake food webs.

A growing number of "dad bloggers" are using social media to provide a window into their lives as fathers.

Researchers find physical activity in preschool years can affect future heart health.

A unique, grassroots-driven survey of LGBTQ+ people in Hamilton shows a tremendous need for dedicated space and support services.

The McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA) and the McMaster School of Nursing's Aging, Community and Health Research Unit (ACHRU) have formed the newest research centre in the Ontario SPOR SUPPORT Unit (OSSU) network.

An international team of researchers, including those at McMaster, has established a trend line for people with cerebral palsy from age one to 21, describing the developmental paths for their mobility and looking after themselves in day-to-day tasks like dressing.

A new form of medicine makes a critical journey across the Atlantic while a life hangs in the balance.

New research on the evolutionary relationships between tree sloths and their extinct giant relatives is challenging decades of widely accepted scientific research.

McMaster's map specialist, Gord Beck highlights some of the rare and unique items in McMaster's extensive WWII map collection and explains how each map helps to shed light on different aspects of D-Day and the war.

Global Health graduate Spencer Rutherford has proposed a new framework for rebuilding health systems in post-conflict countries -- and he hopes the UN, the World Bank and the World Health Organization are listening.

Narendra Modi's BJP views NGO activists as defiant because they challenge conventional notions of power, social structures and hierarchies that conflict with the idea of Hindu majoritarianism and status quo culture.

Through one-of-a-kind materials and first-hand accounts, the Dr. William G. Bensen Fur Trade Collection of Robert D.W. Band, recently donated by the Bensen family to McMaster University, is bringing to life this often-tumultuous period and the role it played in the formation of Canada.