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It may be located far from Ontario's northern forests, but the 14-storey, engineered wood-framed tower proposed for the University of Toronto’s St.…
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Automated external defibrillators can restart a stopped heart, but they only work if they are available where and when they are needed. A new study…
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To understand how people behave in games or markets, economists build mathematical models that aim to explain or predict choices and outcomes. For…
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A new elementary school being built in southwest Calgary has been named after Freda Miller, a University of Toronto professor and senior…
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Three University of Toronto faculty members and a PhD student have been honoured with prestigious awards from the Royal Society of Canada, the…
Professor Graham Collingridge, a world-renowned expert in learning and memory, has taken over as the new director of the Tanz Centre…
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Bianca Andreescu made history earlier this month when she became the first Canadian to win the U.S. Open women’s singles championship. On the way…
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While thousands of visitors to Algonquin Provincial Park were canoeing and camping this summer, a small band of third-year University of…
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Choong Chin Liew was a visionary research scientist whose work on cardiovascular genetics is still paving the way for early detection of a wide…
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There are about the same number of professional astronomers in Canada as there are active Canadian hockey players in the NHL. Hockey players get a lot…
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For decades, reel-to-reel tapes of conversations with some of the leading Canadian politicians of a generation sat in a corner of the Ontario…
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Today, many researchers view gut hormones as building blocks for developing new therapies to confront the obesity and diabetes epidemics sweeping the…