Research & Innovation

A new study by a Western University demographer shows that the happiness trajectories of new parents vary greatly depending on the age when people have their first child and how many children they have.

Researchers at Western University have identified a specific gene that plays a key role in the degradation of cartilage in osteoarthritis (OA).

The Toronto Election Study (TES) has collected information from nearly 3,000 respondents and principal investigators are now in a position to draw some conclusions about the policy preferences of Torontonians, and what they could mean for the outcome of the election.

With nearly 200,000 new cancer diagnoses expected in Canada this year alone, researchers are focusing on new keys to unlock our understanding of the disease.

With more than 2,800 responses from eligible Toronto voters, the Toronto Election Study (TES) is in the final drive of its pre-election survey.

A new study of foster care in Canada led by a researcher at Western University reveals a shrinking number of foster care providers are available across the country to care for a growing number of children with increasingly complex disorders. The study, led by Alan...

Meredith Levine, an award-winning multimedia journalist and a faculty member at Western University’s Faculty of Information & Media Studies, has conducted an in-depth investigation of “chronic vertigo,” an impairment that affects an estimated 1.5 million Canadians.

Four London researchers, Jane Rylett, Robert Bartha, Manuel Montero-Odasso, and Dr. Michael Borrie are leading the charge as part of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (CCNA), a collaborative research program focused on tackling the challenge of...

When you reach into your pocket, you can easily tell a button from a coin. Solving this seemingly simple problem is actually amazingly complicated. The long-held scientific explanation is that neurons in the cerebral cortex, which is the part of the brain reserved for...

A new partnership announced today aims to help understand and mitigate the long-term effects of concussion. The partnership makes Western University’s Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry the new home for the Canadian chapter of the Sports Legacy...

An international all-star gathering of 70 astrophysicists from six of the world's seven continents will converge at Western University next week in an effort to better understand stellar disks, which ultimately give researchers answers on how planets like the Earth...

When it comes to heart disease, Dr. Ross Feldman says women are often in the dark. Historically, it was thought that heart disease was a men’s-only disease, however, data has shown that post-menopausal women are just as likely as men to get heart disease and...