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August 18, 2017

In the chaos of civil war and bitter ethnic conflict, Islamist groups often rise to power by exploiting local economies. This is the central theme…

August 18, 2017

Petter Bruåsdal is about to board a plane back to Norway, armed with a 10-week crash course in entrepreneurship from the University of Toronto…

August 17, 2017

Children's storybooks featuring human characters – not cute animals – are best suited to teaching lessons like telling the truth and…

August 17, 2017

Everyone knows that you should not look at the sun! Not with your naked eye, not with sunglasses and certainly not with binoculars or with a…

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August 17, 2017

The University of Toronto has notified organizers of the Toronto Nationalist Rally, in writing, that they are not permitted to use space on its…

August 17, 2017

James Bateman had already made an improbable leap from home construction to quantum mechanics when life threw up a detour sign.   The…

Laura Newburgh
August 17, 2017

Laura Newburgh was inspired by Star Trek to boldly go where few men, or women, have gone before. In high school, she read The Physics of Star…

August 16, 2017

When it comes to figuring out what’s going on in distant solar systems, astrophysicists rely on a powerful set of mathematical tools called numerical…

Bat with white-nose syndrome
August 16, 2017

A new study from U of T Mississauga is shining a light on genetic changes happening in the darkest of places – bat caves. First discovered in…

August 16, 2017

U of T alumna Cathleen Synge Morawetz, a professor emeritus of mathematics at New York University, died last week. She was…

Playtesting crowd photo
August 16, 2017

It’s every high school student’s dream: playing video games instead of doing homework. Steve Engels, an associate professor of computer science,…

August 16, 2017

Fresh water, salt water, wastewater, industrial water, drinking water: all water on Earth is part of the same cycle – and every drop matters. Yet…