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In the chaos of civil war and bitter ethnic conflict, Islamist groups often rise to power by exploiting local economies. This is the central theme…
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Petter Bruåsdal is about to board a plane back to Norway, armed with a 10-week crash course in entrepreneurship from the University of Toronto…
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Children's storybooks featuring human characters – not cute animals – are best suited to teaching lessons like telling the truth and…
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Everyone knows that you should not look at the sun! Not with your naked eye, not with sunglasses and certainly not with binoculars or with a…
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The University of Toronto has notified organizers of the Toronto Nationalist Rally, in writing, that they are not permitted to use space on its…
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James Bateman had already made an improbable leap from home construction to quantum mechanics when life threw up a detour sign. The…
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Laura Newburgh was inspired by Star Trek to boldly go where few men, or women, have gone before. In high school, she read The Physics of Star…
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When it comes to figuring out what’s going on in distant solar systems, astrophysicists rely on a powerful set of mathematical tools called numerical…
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A new study from U of T Mississauga is shining a light on genetic changes happening in the darkest of places – bat caves. First discovered in…
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U of T alumna Cathleen Synge Morawetz, a professor emeritus of mathematics at New York University, died last week. She was…
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It’s every high school student’s dream: playing video games instead of doing homework. Steve Engels, an associate professor of computer science,…
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Fresh water, salt water, wastewater, industrial water, drinking water: all water on Earth is part of the same cycle – and every drop matters. Yet…