The Conversation

By Holly Noelle Schaafsma, Jess Haines, Kathryn Walton, and Raphaëlle Jacob The holiday season is a time of exciting activities, family get-togethers and a time away from the normal work …

By Peter Adesina You trust the road beneath your tires. But what if that trust is misplaced? Sinkholes are increasingly turning ordinary streets into danger zones. And the cost of… …

By Sara Wilson When life-saving information is not provided in a language people understand, it can delay protective action and put communities at unnecessary risk. This was evident during the …

By Brodie Ramin A fault line in Canada’s Yukon territory has stirred after more than 12,000 years of geological sleep. Researchers studying the Tintina Fault, which stretches 1,000 kilometres from… …

By Ehsan Noroozinejad At least 44 people have died and more than 270 are missing after a major fire engulfed an apartment complex in Hong Kong’s Tai Po district. (Editor’s… …

By Mark Lorch, University of Hull If you’ve sat in a nail salon recently, you may well have encountered TPO or trimethylbenzoyl diphenylphosphine oxide to give it its full chemical …

By Dick Zoutman, Queen’s University, Ontario; Julia M. Wright, Dalhousie University; Mark Ungrin, University of Calgary, and Ryan Tennant, University of Waterloo The CSA Group — a not-for-profit standards organization… …

By Steve Lorteau, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa Interactions between different users on roads are often a source of frustration, the most prominent being those between motorists and cyclists. For example, …

By Hoda Khalil, Carleton University and Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University A recent report from the University of Chicago’s Air Quality Life Index found that wildfires are worsening air quality in… …