In the summer of 1973, two teenagers vanished while hitchhiking to a concert in Upstate New York. More than five decades later, the disappearance...

Over the past few decades, the prevalence of free, accessible public spaces has been declining in cities around the world. Neither home nor work,...

About one in six people suffer from dysphagia, a medical term that means difficulty swallowing. Symptoms can include pain, gagging and an inability or...

Ebola is one of the most virulent diseases on the planet. Spread through contact with the bodily fluids of somebody who is infected, its...

In the 1990s, Nike was outed for using sweatshops and child labour to make shoes. In April 2013, an eight-story commercial building collapsed on...

Nearly 45 per cent of Canadians will develop cancer at some point in their lifetime and one in five will die from the disease. Radiation...

Almost half of all food produced in Canada goes to waste. That's more than 21 million tonnes every year, worth a staggering $58 billion....

For many Somalis, daily life in their homeland is complicated and, at times, dangerous. The country in East Africa has experienced an ongoing civil...

Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool that can enhance our lives in many ways, but it has significant limitations and poses serious risks. These limitations...

One of the biggest contributors to the climate crisis is our throw-away society. From household waste and single-use plastics to byproducts from food production, we burn fossil fuels and spend money to truck our "garbage" to landfills and processing facilities, where some of it releases greenhouse gasses or pollutants into the environment as it breaks down.

Drug development is a complex, costly and time-consuming process. To ensure that pharmaceuticals are safe and effective, the interval between a laboratory breakthrough and a therapy that's ready for clinical trials can be a decade or more. That long wait is no comfort to patients who are suffering from debilitating or potentially deadly medical conditions.

Certain footage in this video was generously provided by CHEO, a pediatric healthcare and research centre in Ottawa, and by the National Research Council...