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Researchers in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering are combining audio and art to provide better,…
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Unlike when he was a kid, Roy Strebel’s 9-year-old daughter Shay-Lee now has the opportunity to learn about Indigenous Peoples in school. But Strebel…
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New research out of South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave shows that the climate of the interior of southern Africa almost two million years ago was…
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Few people can say that their signature appears in the same book as Sir Isaac Newton’s. The University of Toronto's Nancy Reid will soon be…
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Imagine you’re a physician on the ground in an escalating civil war and you witness what appears to be ethnic cleansing. Do you speak out in the hope…
Globally, hundreds of millions of people lack access to clean drinking water. But water scarcity isn't an issue that is top of mind of most people in…
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Long before the Communist Party rose to power during the late 1940s, China was ruled by a series of dynastic empires stretching back thousands of…
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Samsung has added its name to Toronto’s thriving artificial intelligence network, opening its Toronto AI Centre in the MaRS Discovery District on…
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At the start of the Ontario provincial election, which unofficially began when Doug Ford was narrowly chosen in March to lead the province’s…
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A University of Toronto scientist has discovered the brain’s frontal lobe is involved in pain transmission to the spine. If his findings in animals…
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The path to dentistry school was a tough one for Khamsum Wangdu. Growing up in a Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal, college seemed out of reach. He and…
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A new study from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education has found that moderate to vigorous physical activity may…