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Photo of Jeffrey Rosenthal
October 5, 2018

When Joe Parker offered to take a photo of a vacationing family at a beach in Waikiki, he had no idea at first that he’d just met his half-brother.…

Artist’s conception of a Gamma Ray Burst
October 5, 2018

A team of astronomers, including from the University of Toronto, has detected the sonic boom from an immensely powerful cosmic explosion, even…

Photo of people exercising
October 4, 2018

While most oncologists would agree that exercise is important for people with cancer, generic guidelines for this population do not address the…

The Lab late on a winter's night
October 4, 2018

History was made at a University of Toronto lab in 1921 when physician Frederick Banting and researcher Charles Best discovered insulin – transforming…

Photo of some of the commentary's authors
October 4, 2018

University of Toronto researchers have published a commentary in The New England Journal of Medicine arguing that men in academic medicine are using…

Photo of Adalsteinn Brown
October 3, 2018

A health-care advisory council struck by the Ontario government will draw on the expertise of the University of Toronto's Adalsteinn Brown, the…

Photo of Mohammad Ali Amini and Xiao Yu (Shirley) Wu
October 3, 2018

Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy have seen remarkable success combining tumour-modulating nanoparticles with…

Photo of prison
October 3, 2018

The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the few scientific studies to enter the public consciousness through mainstream news, documentaries, popular…

Photo of Tania Li and Julie Payette
October 3, 2018

Tania Li, an anthropologist whose research for the past two decades has been focused on Indigenous highland communities in Indonesia, has…

Photo of Michael Garton
October 2, 2018

On a hot July day in 2006, Michael Garton was living his dream. Then 24 years old, the British climber was scaling the tallest vertical rock face in…