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Researcher wearing a VR headset
November 15, 2019

Imagine being inside an E. coli bacterium, smaller than a speck of dust and surrounded by genetic material, molecules and proteins. This…

Photo of Aisha Lofters, Onye Nnorom and Nakia Lee-Foon
November 15, 2019

The health of Black Canadian women may be endangered by a lack of data, according to a first-of-its-kind paper by University of Toronto…

Photo of Doug VanderLaan, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga
November 15, 2019

New intervention techniques could help reduce bullying against children who don’t conform to gender stereotypes, a new study involving University…

 U of T's Meredith Irwin, Nobel laureate William Kaelin Jr. and U of T's Micahel Ohh
November 15, 2019

When University of Toronto Professor Michael Ohh was scouting postdoctoral positions at Harvard Medical School in the mid-1990s, a group of Canadians…

Photo of Tovi Grossman
November 14, 2019

The manufacturing industry is changing. Jobs that once relied on individuals to carry out manual labour are increasingly turning to automation because…

Construction cranes dot the downtown Toronto skyline
November 14, 2019

With condo construction booming in Toronto, it’s important to not forget about community centres and parks, University of Toronto researcher Jeff…

John Polanyi at the podium during the science for peace event
November 14, 2019

This past August, six months after the contentious breakdown of talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and mere…

Winter scene as envisioned by Sidewalk Labs
November 13, 2019

Collaborations between public institutions and large global companies often raise understandable concerns, but the challenges posed by such…

portrait of Prabhat Jha
November 13, 2019

Getting a snapshot of a country’s health statistics is as easy as using surveys about people’s cause of death and disability, along with…