DOLLYWOOD - Following the passing of beloved country music icon and humanitarian Dolly Parton, millions of tattooed urban progressive cyclists have joined in profound mourning alongside open carry unc...

WASHINGTON D.C. - With Belgium defeating the United States team 4-1 to knock them out of the World Cup, U.S. President Trump has declared a 100% tariff on all waffle imports.

By tracking the water mass histories of genetic samples, we investigated the biophysical dynamics shaping eukaryotic phytoplankton populations in a...

Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learni...

Temperature is a fundamental determinant of bacterial physiology and ecology. Optimal growth temperature (OGT) is highly variable across species, contributing to differences in where and when species ...

Do we really want to play dice with our planet?

TORONTO - A last minute rule change by FIFA means World Cup fans will no longer be able to bring the moisture inside their own bodies into host stadiums for the tournament.

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

On 6 December 1989, a man entered a mechanical engineering classroom at Montreal’s École Polytechnique armed with a semi-automatic weapon. After separating t...

As we highlight 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence and the upcoming anniversary of the Montreal massacre, can we take a moment to reflect on all the different forms this violence takes?

Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

Analysis concludes paramilitary soldiers are conducting mass killings in house-to-house operations

The climate crisis is one of the most imminent threats to humanity and all life on our planet. Methane is not only the second most potent greenhouse gas (GHG) and is responsible for approximately 31% of GHG-induced global warming since the start of the industrial revolution (1) but is also the most rapid increasing GHG in the atmosphere (2). The latter is likely caused by increased microbiological production of methane from, e.g., wetlands (2). This fact stresses the importance of methanotrophic microbes that can degrade methane with and without oxygen (3, 4) and thereby fulfill a crucial role in our global climate.

Classes at Dalhousie University are supposed to start on Tuesday, but most have been cancelled due to a strike.

Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

Jessica Angima talks with Buddhist teacher and rapper Born I about Lyrical Dharma, the limits of language, and how we all contain the seeds of our ancestors.

The lockout of Dalhousie University faculty is inching closer to the start of the school year, and it's fuelling concerns among students.

Marine particles, typically composed of organic detritus and cellular debris, harbor microbial communities that are distinct from the planktonic, or free-living, communities in the pelagic ocean. Howe...

Scientific Data - Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean

Scientific Data - Characterizing organisms from three domains of life with universal primers from throughout the global ocean

Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...

Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.

The two former computational science fellows were recognized for their science and their impact as mentors, teachers and volunteers.

Microbial maximum growth rates vary widely across species, and their measurement is challenging, especially for uncultivated organisms. Here, Xu, Zakem & Weissman present Phydon, a framework for g...

Marine bacteria opt for divergent foraging strategies when faced with carbon starvation—either cease motility entirely, or convert biomass to energy to retain motility.

Large genome databases have markedly improved our understanding of marine microorganisms. Although these resources have focused on prokaryotes, genomes from many dominant marine lineages, such as Pela...

Scientific Reports - Microenvironments on individual sand grains enhance nitrogen loss in coastal sediments

Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write