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It's that time of year again: when festive ads command consumers to BUY! BUY! BUY! for their friends and family. But despite this holiday cheer, negative news marches on.

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A new review by Concordia researchers published in Socioaffective Neuroscience & Psychology details the vast potential women have to experience orgasms from one or more sources of sensory input.

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Concordia University Press is a non-profit, open access publisher of scholarly books is one of a kind in Quebec and one of just a few in North America.

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A new study published in Business & Society by researchers from Concordia University's John Molson School of Business shows that typical one per centers are in fact not the well-known billionaires who populate the Forbes rich lists.

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A new study shows that the type of yeast in bread is less similar to the type that causes fungal infections than previously thought.

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If he had to do it all over again, would Trudeau give the same weight to gender parity, ethnic diversity and experience in office? Or, knowing what he knows now, would he shuffle the deck differently? Would you? A new card game allows the PM — and people playing at home — to do just that.

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A new study shows that dance and music training have even stronger effects on the brain than previously understood — but in markedly different ways.

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Across North America, the workforce is going grey. In Canada, labour market participation rates of people 55 and over are rapidly increasing, from about 23 per cent in the mid-1990s to 37 per cent in 2015. In the US, those numbers are also on the rise — from 12 per cent in 1992 to 21 per cent in 2012. Concordia researchers provide practical tools to combat on-the-job ageism — and increase production

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New research shows tha estrogen and progesterone cause the brain to favour one memory system or strategy over another

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New research shows how social media can impact the inclusion and integration of Syrian refugees in host societies.

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In a recent study, researchers from Montreal assess how six previously identified plant extracts can delay aging by affecting different signalling pathways that set the pace of growing old.

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Keeping teens focused on what’s happening in class rather than their electronic device is a tall order, given that 73 per cent of them have access to a smartphone — and most would prefer to be on Instagram than at school. But what if making, sharing, liking and commenting on photos was part of the curriculum instead of a forbidden activity?

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Worldwide, there are 16,938 endangered species. From the white rhino to the blue whale, numbers are dwindling in the face of poaching, habitat destruction and climate change. Although the situation may seem dire, new research gives us reason to hope. A study recently published in Evolutionary Applications by a group of Concordia biologists shows that small populations of species can still adapt and respond to natural selection.

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The consequences of climate change are an increasing concern for humans around the world. How will we cope with rising sea levels and climbing temperatures? But it's not just humans who will be affected by these worldwide shifts — it's our closest cousins, too: monkeys, apes and lemurs.

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The 24th World Congress of Political Science, organized by the International Political Science Association (IPSA) will take place in Poznań (Poland) between July 23 and 28, 2016 at the Poznań Congress Center and Adam Mickiewicz University.

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New research from Concordia University in Montreal shows that there’s a lot more we could be doing to combat urban sprawl — and European countries are leading the way.

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New researcher shows how a special tool called a noise logger can detect water leaks accurately and efficiently, before major roadwork is required.