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From Toronto to St. Louis on a Litre of Fuel

U of T engineering students place second in international competition to create most fuel-efficient car

A new device promises to ease a major health concern for people with mobility problems

A PhD candidate’s low-cost sensors could be deployed across cities to gather highly local air-quality data

As devices get smaller, a U of T company has created a keyboard that makes typing easier while using less screen space

Understand and speak Mandarin? If not, a computer may soon do it for you

Machine-made skin being developed at U of T may be safer, faster and cheaper than traditional grafts

Security cameras are everywhere. A new app invites Torontonians to help map them

The simple, inexpensive device matches the function of far more costly technology

Thinner, more flexible displays could radically change how we use and experience computers

Software developed at U of T can compose music in classical, pop or jazz styles – and as a solo or an ensemble of different instruments

Advances in technology are bringing us robots that can interact naturally with humans

Why not use exercise bikes to supply electricity back to the grid?

A new technique using light and metal nanoparticles could help save lives

Jennifer Hsu is studying how people walk in icy conditions in the hope of designing “smarter” footwear

Surveillance and surgery could both get a boost from a new kind of video camera that can focus on near and distant objects at the same time

Ambitious 10-year project will create a detailed electronic atlas of the brain

Physicist John Rowlands has invented a way to deliver high-quality X-rays at a fraction of the regular cost

A U of T computer scientist is developing a program to help predict – and ultimately reduce – buildings’ energy use

New device provides better "masking" for tinnitus sufferers

Want to know where an unidentified picture was taken? A computer program being developed at U of T can help

An infrared ray may help caregivers decode the wishes of people with severe paralysis

Chemical engineer Ramin Farnood is developing “smart” packaging that could warn consumers if a food product is tainted

With BlogScope, a U of T computer science group is taking on the search titan in the realm of public opinion

Portable device would offer hospitals a quicker way to test patients for infectious diseases