Could AI Help You Quit an Addiction?
U of T researchers are developing a chatbot to help people stop smoking. One day, it might offer therapy, too
U of T researchers are developing a chatbot to help people stop smoking. One day, it might offer therapy, too
By Kurt Kleiner
Eliminating gas-powered cars and trucks may help avert a climate catastrophe. But they are only part of the solution
By Kurt Kleiner
Electricity from renewable sources is getting cheaper, but how do we make it available to all Canadians?
By Kurt Kleiner
U of T wants to drastically cut carbon emissions by 2050. It’s enlisting on-campus ingenuity for help
By Kurt Kleiner
U of T scientists are pursuing a made-in-Canada solution to end the pandemic
By Kurt Kleiner
Technology gave rise to the current problems, but technology alone won’t solve them
By Kurt Kleiner
These 3-D printers create perfect models of life-sized human hearts, spines and other body parts
By Kurt Kleiner
Prof. Leah Cowen’s lab aims to understand how C. auris works and how to stop it
By Kurt Kleiner
They may have reverse effect of what they intend, U of T Scarborough psychologists find
By Kurt Kleiner
Students in U of T Scarborough’s City Studies program learn first-hand how local immigrants are adapting to life in Canada
By Kurt Kleiner
Physics undergrad Aysha Abdel-Aziz is making her own unique contribution to a massive international research project
By Kurt Kleiner
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
By Kurt Kleiner
Doctors have been trying for decades to classify mental illnesses. So why do precise definitions still elude us?
By Kurt Kleiner
Advances in technology are bringing us robots that can interact naturally with humans
By Kurt Kleiner
Women often look after their older relatives – for no pay. As populations age, this may have to change
By Kurt Kleiner
Do some cultures have better “gaydar” than others?
By Kurt Kleiner
Why not use exercise bikes to supply electricity back to the grid?
By Kurt Kleiner
It seems young men fight primarily to gain the approval of … other men
By Kurt Kleiner
Instead of fighting bureaucratic inefficiency, why not go around it?
By Kurt Kleiner
Engineers are using the idea of "urban metabolism" to design more sustainable neighbourhoods
By Kurt Kleiner
Immigrants who are overqualified for their Canadian jobs might not just be bored. Their mental health might be suffering as well
By Kurt Kleiner
Scientists discover unusual die-off in sugar-maple leaves due to high spring temperatures
By Kurt Kleiner
A behavioural scientist offers new criteria for defining how much is too much
By Kurt Kleiner
The culture and language you are raised with can affect your ability to judge the age of people's faces
By Kurt Kleiner
We run our lives as we wish. Why can’t we have a say in our own death?
By Kurt Kleiner
Psychology research finds that conservatives are more concerned with order, liberals are more compassionate
By Kurt Kleiner
Women more likely than men to experience physical arousal without thinking that they're aroused, study finds
By Kurt Kleiner
Workers paid hourly are generally happier, dollar for dollar, than those on salary, study finds
By Kurt Kleiner
A new measure of national wealth would include health, education and other things Canadians consider important
By Kurt Kleiner
For some people, dating right after a break-up may be a good idea
By Kurt Kleiner
Even parents who consider honesty extremely important frequently lie to their kids
By Kurt Kleiner
Ancient peoples may have viewed the Dead Sea scrolls much as we see the web – fluid, social and open to change
By Kurt Kleiner
Intelligence by itself doesn’t make you rational. Thinking rationally demands mental skills that some of us don’t have and many of us don’t use
By Kurt Kleiner
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