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People who develop rheumatoid arthritis as older adults benefit from early and sustained use of a drug called Methotrexate (MTX), a recent study led…
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In 2008, author Rebecca Solnit’s now famous essay, Men Explain Things to Me, set off a firestorm. Though Solnit didn’t use the term “mansplaining,”…
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Yiddish songs written by Soviet Jews during the Second World War that were discovered in Ukraine by a University of Toronto professor have been…
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Through her research, Danielle Lee knew that sugar was a cause of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but still found the relationship perplexing…
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One of the opening pages of a 1924 edition of Der Eigene, said to be the world’s first gay magazine, is missing a piece. The carefully cut-out…
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Research from the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab outlines how Chinese social media app WeChat is using cutting-edge technology to censor…
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A University of Toronto education is meant to prepare graduates for anything life throws at them – including, apparently, whirlwind journeys…
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Professor Shulamit Levenberg, a leading interdisciplinary researcher in stem cells and tissue engineering at Technion-Israel Institute of…
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A group of University of Toronto researchers are part of a 19-person international team awarded US$4 million by the Chan…
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High-risk research can bring high rewards, but for early-career researchers seeking tenure and funding renewal it often makes more sense to stick with…
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Researchers at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information are holding a series of workshops with children to better understand how they use…
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Agincourt is renowned as one of Toronto’s Asian culinary hotspots. But its history – including opposition to a wave of immigrants in the early…