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CVST map of the Greater Toronto area. The red, yellow and blue circles represent the number of data points in a specific location.
July 18, 2016

Mapping the City is an ongoing series on the stories we can tell about people and places in Toronto through maps created by University of Toronto…

Aaron Perstad
July 18, 2016

An astronaut holds a glass jar half-full of water in the near-zero gravity of space. How does the water look inside the jar? Does it form a single…

Seagull flies beside bench that bears flower tributes to victims of Nice attack
July 18, 2016

On July 14, Bastille Day, 84 people were killed and hundreds injured when a man drove a truck down the crowded Promenade des Anglais in Nice…

a very large crowd marching in the Pride Parade in Mexico City
July 15, 2016

A report from the University of Toronto’s international human rights program (IHRP) investigates abuses of human rights faced by people affected by…

July 14, 2016

Researchers at U of T Scarborough are teaming up with Parks Canada and the Toronto Zoo to help a threatened species rebound in the Rouge National…

An artist’s portrayal of a Warm Jupiter gas-giant planet in orbit around its parent star, along with smaller companion planets
July 14, 2016

After analyzing four years of Kepler space telescope observations, astronomers from the University of Toronto have given the clearest…

Marshall McLuhan outside the Coach House Institute in 1973
July 14, 2016

U of T’s Coach House Institute has long been associated with Marshall McLuhan, one of the university’s most famous professors. And now, the…

July 13, 2016

Trying to think green when buying a car? Whether your new fuel-efficient engine helps or hurts the warming planet depends on where you live and what…

photo of library
July 13, 2016

Technology and creativity collided this past weekend at Toronto’s Maker Festival, a celebration of the city’s entrepreneurs, engineers, artists and…

July 13, 2016

As a child, Diane Scott struggled with reading – until a trip to the Etobicoke Bookmobile revealed that she had been reading the wrong…

Two people playing Pokémon GO outside the Nintendo flagship store in New York
July 13, 2016

It's not even available in Canada yet, but Pokémon GO, the new augmented reality (AR) app from Niantic Labs, is dominating watercooler…

July 12, 2016

Mapping the City is an ongoing series on the stories we can tell about people and places in Toronto through maps created by University of Toronto…