For as long as I can remember, my dad had one goal: to live longer than his dad did. I never met my grandfather — or as we call him in Tamil: Appappa. He died of a heart attack when he was 56: before ...

"This exhibition reveals that the young Brontës fictionalised real-life colonial battles, British explorers, missionaries and Asante warriors. It identifies their source material and traces the ...

Burrard Inlet, known traditionally as səl̓ilwəɬ (Tsleil-Wat) in the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language, has been the heart of the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the səl̓ilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh ...

Cesarean delivery has adverse associations with fertility, future pregnancy outcome. Investigators assessed the impact of maternal antibiotic administration timing on infant gut colonization in babies ...

Prior to the first world war, sprawling European empires collectively controlled roughly 80% of Earth’s landmass. Following WWII, that percentage drastically shrank, as colonies and occupied ...

In a recent study published in Science Translational Medicine, researchers reviewed the impact of the interactions between the respiratory microbiota and the immune system. The human body houses over ...

African literary legend Chinua Achebe died last week at the age of 82. While revisiting his work, The Burton Wire came across a video of Achebe discussing the devastating impact of colonization. It’s ...

The fire that devastated the Hawaiian island of Maui earlier this month was made all the worse by the deep-rooted effects of colonialism. As the recovery process begins, Native Hawaiians see an ...

Background and aims: Early onset neonatal sepsis due to vertical transmission of Group B streptococci (GBS) is responsible for severe morbidity and mortality of newborns. The aim of study was to ...