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With all the negative media coverage and public concern related to data, it isn’t surprising that governments are responding with laws and policy…
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A high school mentorship program played a big part in helping Eugenia Duodu find success in the sciences. Now, the award-winning chemist and chief…
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University of Toronto researchers have created a miniature robot that can crawl with inchworm-like motion. The underlying technology could one day…
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With its largest-ever gift to a single Canadian institution, BMO Financial Group is investing $5 million to explore the potential of artificial…
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Before the University of Toronto came to be, there was what we now call Taddle Creek – a waterway that began near the intersection…
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The University of Toronto's Dr. Andreas Laupacis takes over this week as editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association…
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More than 200 University of Toronto scientists and trainees, along with leaders from industry and community partners, attended the inaugural…
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Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella, a champion of human rights and social justice, was presented with the Rose Wolfe Distinguished Alumni…
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Compared to long-term residents, immigrants to Canada have a 40 per cent higher risk of developing prediabetes, which is an early predictor…
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New regulations proposed by the U.S. Treasury Department could stifle Canadian investment in U.S. startups, warns Whitney Haring-Smith, a…
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New research shows that the fearsome sabre-toothed predator Smilodon fatalis lived in Alberta during the Ice Age, according to scientists at the…
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Dimitry Anastakis is searching for diamonds on Amazon Prime. Actually, he's looking for cubic zirconia that he can pass off as diamonds to his…