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Photo of beaver
January 13, 2017

They were diligent, methodical, meticulous. They overcame obstacles large and small and applied available resources to try to achieve an ambitious…

Photo from book showing seance
January 12, 2017

While modern science helps us understand the world around us, it’s the unexplained that really captures our imagination. University of Toronto’s…

Photo of Brian Connelly
January 12, 2017

A new model for identifying personality traits may help organizations save money by improving the hiring process, and it could also help in evaluating…

Photo of Queen Elizabeth Scholar Tumaini Shoo
January 12, 2017

The opportunity to attend school is something that Tumaini Shoo has cherished. So when she went to Tanzania this past summer to work with six young…

Photo of exact media
January 12, 2017

The co-founders of Toronto-based startup Exact Media, which has been described as the Airbnb of marketing, have been named to the 2017 Forbes 30 Under…

Bloor bike lanes
January 12, 2017

After just five months of bike lanes on Bloor Street, a new partnership between the University of Toronto, a Kitchener-based traffic analytics…

January 11, 2017

Across Canada and the United States, rates of overdose from opioid drugs including fentanyl have skyrocketed in recent years. The…

Illustration of hyolith Haplophrentis
January 11, 2017

One branch on the tree of life is a bit more crowded today. A team of scientists led by 20-year-old University of Toronto undergraduate…

Photo of London Overground
January 11, 2017

Few transit systems hold a candle to London’s sprawling network of trains. Its comprehensive web of rail lines serve everyone from well-to-do…

Photo of Donald Trump at press conference
January 11, 2017

Under explosive news reports that Russian officials have compromising information about him, U.S. president-elect Donald Trump held his first news…

Photo of President Barack Obama
January 10, 2017

Back in 2008, Barack Obama ran a youthful presidential campaign, promising hope and change. He leaves office this year maybe a little humbler…

Photo of capuchin monkeys
January 10, 2017

It wasn’t exactly a Planet of the Apes moment, but when two University of Toronto researchers recently proved monkeys can reason about…