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It's sometimes said that people buy products they don't really need, with money they don't really have, to impress people they don't really like. This behavior is known as conspicuous consumption ...

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Along the southernmost rim of the Florida Peninsula, the arching prop roots or “knees” of red mangroves (Rhizophora mangle) ...

Queen's researcher Kerry Rowe is being honoured for his groundbreaking work designing waste containment systems that protect ...

We asked Dr. Joanne Pike, CEO of the Alzheimer's Association to help explain the challenges and hopes when it comes to this debilitating disease.

Melanie Hoenig was teaching first-year medical students how to estimate kidney function when one of them, Cameron Nutt, raised his hand. Why, he asked, did the diagnostic algorithm include an ...