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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.…
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A team of astronomers, including from the University of Toronto, has detected the sonic boom from an immensely powerful cosmic explosion, even…
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While most oncologists would agree that exercise is important for people with cancer, generic guidelines for this population do not address the…
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History was made at a University of Toronto lab in 1921 when physician Frederick Banting and researcher Charles Best discovered insulin – transforming…
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University of Toronto researchers have published a commentary in The New England Journal of Medicine arguing that men in academic medicine are using…
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A health-care advisory council struck by the Ontario government will draw on the expertise of the University of Toronto's Adalsteinn Brown, the…
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Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy have seen remarkable success combining tumour-modulating nanoparticles with…
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The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the few scientific studies to enter the public consciousness through mainstream news, documentaries, popular…
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Tania Li, an anthropologist whose research for the past two decades has been focused on Indigenous highland communities in Indonesia, has…
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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…
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“A community is everything.” So says Professor Njoki Wane, chair of the department of social justice education at the University of…
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Markus Dubber tapped a deep well of interest when he hosted an “Ethics of AI in Context” talk at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics last…