Leadership, Culture & Society

The investment from the Canada Foundation for Innovation will support cutting-edge nuclear, materials and archaeological research.

Researcher Rachel Zhou examined thousands of Reddit conversations to understand how people made sense of the measles’ resurgence in 2025.

Researcher Lyndsey Beutin partners with the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre to tell the story of slavery in Shelburne, Nova Scotia.

Canada’s three main political parties — the Liberals, Conservatives and NDP — have banded together to avoid privacy laws aimed at protecting voter data, writes expert Sara Bannerman.

Kuperman’s research project will focus on using AI to improve adult literacy, especially for newcomers to Canada.

From tackling systemic barriers in health care to developing real-world solutions to everyday needs, here are some of the ways researchers at McMaster are driving change around the world.

Female friendships are social and psychological infrastructure that shape health, resilience and achievement, writes Maha Khawaja.

The speed and structure of AI relationship advice often consolidates one narrative and trains us for unrealistic expectations, shaping how we interpret conflict and intimacy, writes expert Maha Khawaja.

Science confirms: Limiting how much you see of an ex on social media can help you get over them and move on with your life.

‘Love languages’ are a popular but misleading framework that oversimplify how relationships work and can even obscure the real conditions that sustain intimacy, writes expert Maha Khawaja.

Easily created deepfakes using tools like Grok are the latest in a long line of digital harms targeting women and gender-diverse people, Alexis-Carlota Cochrane explains.

New research suggests the government’s intention to reduce the size of the federal public service could very likely drive some Liberal voters back to the NDP in the next federal election, writes expert Peter Graefe.