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Photo from Catalonia
October 12, 2017

With Spain and Catalonia at a standoff following an Oct. 1st referendum, pressure is mounting on the separatist government of the autonomous…

Photo of ROSS Intelligence co-founders
October 12, 2017

Jimoh Ovbiagele says the story of ROSS Intelligence began in the hallways of the University of Toronto’s department of computer science. This week,…

Picture of spider
October 12, 2017

A new citizen science project co-founded by a University of Toronto researcher is harnessing the power of social media to dispel some common…

Photo of sea lions
October 12, 2017

Getting caught in fishing nets remains a major cause of death for the increasingly endangered New Zealand sea lion even after the addition of “sea…

October 12, 2017

With a prized view overlooking Queen’s Park, a trio of tiny bioreactors are quietly creating millions of stem cells – the building blocks of life…

October 12, 2017

1. From the sample of the Open Questions podcast,  in an episode about what constitutes an achievement:    Young woman’s voice:“…

Photo of giant gap in the sea ice
October 11, 2017

Scientists – including a team from the University of Toronto – have discovered a mysterious hole the size of Lake Superior opening up in…

October 11, 2017

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains was in Toronto Wednesday to officially announce two more shortlisted candidates for the federal government’s…

photo of football players taking a knee
October 11, 2017

With race at the centre of the Take the Knee controversy, protests over police misconduct and the emboldening of white supremacists, U of T…

Photo of Patrick Gunning
October 11, 2017

Professor Patrick Gunning, a medicinal chemist whose lab at the University of Toronto is revolutionizing how cancer-killing drugs are produced, has…