This Sunday our bodies will get a long-needed pause from the detrimental effects of Daylight Saving Time. With a vast body of research showing the various health risks associated with the springtime switch, a York expert on biological clocks says the time is long overdue to make that pause permanent.
A large percentage of PFAS are not being accounted for in the air, while PFAAs have accumulated in sometimes surprising amounts over 50 years in the high Arctic.
Several studies have looked at lake ice quantity and its duration, but there is little research on the quality of the ice which directly corresponds to how safe it is to venture out on. TORONTO, Sept. 19, 2024 – Ice may look safe for a game of pick-up hockey on the lake, but as a […]
York University’s Newton apple tree has had a storied existence, with lineage that is thought to go back to Sir Isaac Newton’s original discovery of gravity in the 1600s and the apple tree that infamously played muse to the physicist — even if the story about the apple falling on his head isn’t exactly how it really went down.
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently granted York University professors more than $3.5 million dollars combined, money that will go towards research that aims to help parents and neonatal infants, addresses equity and political barriers to global public health concerns and helps further our understanding the role of an important hormone in heart health.
This Thursday marks the first day of summer in the Northern hemisphere, the longest day of the year. Living beings have evolved over many millennia to react to varying amounts of sunlight exposure, governing everything from sleep-wake cycles, seasonal changes and more, but the proteins responsible for responding to different light environments for non-visual purposes are an underexplored area of science. New research led by a York University Faculty of Science professor and former York researcher found that frogs have maintained a shocking number, and diversity, of these light-sensing proteins, called opsins, over evolutionary time.
Clouds of gas in a distant galaxy are being pushed faster and faster out among neighbouring stars by blasts of radiation from the supermassive black hole at the galaxy’s centre, a discovery that helps illuminate the way active black holes can continuously shape their galaxies by spurring on or snuffing out the development of new stars.
Three New Frontiers in Research Fund-International grants, with additional $3.2 million from partner countries, to support climate change adaptation and mitigation research in Global South, Scandinavia and Canadian Arctic
