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While thousands of visitors to Algonquin Provincial Park were canoeing and camping this summer, a small band of third-year University of…
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Choong Chin Liew was a visionary research scientist whose work on cardiovascular genetics is still paving the way for early detection of a wide…
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There are about the same number of professional astronomers in Canada as there are active Canadian hockey players in the NHL. Hockey players get a lot…
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For decades, reel-to-reel tapes of conversations with some of the leading Canadian politicians of a generation sat in a corner of the Ontario…
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Today, many researchers view gut hormones as building blocks for developing new therapies to confront the obesity and diabetes epidemics sweeping the…
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As early as her second year in engineering at the University of Toronto, Laura Burget knew she wanted to be an entrepreneur. “I actually ran two…
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More people in apartment buildings and condominiums reported exposure to cannabis smoke than tobacco one year before legalization, a new…
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Today we’re facing a whole slew of social, economic and environmental crises – gun violence, climate change, gender inequality, job dislocation, food…
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If this year’s Times Higher Education World Academic Summit in Zurich is focused on how talent thrives, then next year’s event – hosted for the first…
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Paleontologists working on the world-renowned Burgess Shale have revealed a new species named Mollisonia plenovenatrix, which they describe as…
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Males are straightforward while females are complicated. This misguided view prompted a decades-long exclusion of female animals from research out of…
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Cycling to work is sustainable and good for our health – but in Toronto, less than 3 per cent of us actually do it. Now, a new study led by…