Research & Ideas

Cages of Contradiction

Women's prisons fail to offer resources for those with addictions or in abusive relationships, study finds Read More

Is Oscar Good for Your Health?

A study has found that Academy Award winners live an average of four years longer than their less well known peers Read More

Why People Turn to Euthanasia

Loss of social connections plays a major role, researchers find Read More

Crystal-clear Photonics

New optical material could revolutionize the telecommunications industry Read More

A Financial First

New long-term debentures will help finance new residences for the double cohort Read More

Natural Reactions

Herbs and other natural remedies can have negative side effects or harmful interactions with drugs Read More

What Was I Thinking?

Ecstasy use can lead to memory impairment, study finds Read More

Private Practice and the Public Purse

"We need to rethink the scope of out public health-care system," says law prof Read More

The Travel Bug Can Kill You

Malaria is becoming a serious health threat for international travellers Read More

Abuse Is Not Just Physical

National study reveals that most child welfare investigations are due to neglect and emotional abuse Read More

Divining the Message

Manuscripts shed new light on life in mediaeval Italy Read More

A Fly on the Wall, Literally

Parasitic flies may hold secret to better hearing-aid technology Read More

Something Rotten In the State of the Arts?

Purists claim the arts should not be sullied by business. Pragmatists devalue the BA for failing to impart job skills. A pox on them, for they are all wrong. A defence of the liberal arts degree Read More

Lodes of Culture

U of T researchers are unearthing the A-Æ-B-Cs of cultural history from medieval times to the present Read More

Don’t Pressure Me!

Study finds that unhappy marriages increase blood pressure Read More

Seeking a Single E-male?

Digital dating is becoming a convenient alternative in the single scene Read More

Breast Milk a Baby-Booster

Breast milk protein jump-starts the immune system in newborns Read More

Show and Tell

Instruction manual to "how to" film Read More

Healthy Diets Go Straight to the Brain

Lowering fat intake is good for your brain Read More

Rocks of Ages

Discovering the path of granite magma Read More

Freedom 60?

Seniors benefit from public programs when retiring between the ages 60 and 61 Read More

Speedy Little Old Fossil

Oldest known fossil of a two-footed, running creature Read More

Resourceful Device

Risk and expense of extensive drilling not required with new energy sourcing device Read More

Alzheimer’s Vaccine?

Study by researchers in the Faculty of Medicine Read More

C-sections Safest For Breech Births

New study comparing planned c-sections with planned vaginal births Read More

Superconductor?

In addition to his administrative duties, the new president will continue his research on high-temperature superconductors. To do all that, he may have to be one himself Read More

Light Heavyweights

A team of U of T scientists has won an international fight to control light and make it dance like electrons. A new era in telecommunications and computing is about to enter the ring Read More

Ethnic Isolation

Ethnic communities risk being at a disadvantage Read More

The Skinny on Smoking Less

New research in nicotine addiction Read More

Fast, Safe Fibroid Removal

New treatment for fibroids Read More

Urban Grime Rate

Study finds hazardous pollutants Read More

A Protein Worth Probing

New research in colorectal cancer Read More

Of Murder and Magic

The inspiration for the fanciful novels of Guy Gavriel Kay and Caroline Roe sprang from the U of T campus Read More

A Huge Presence

Through the lens of Lee Miller Read More

The True North?

J.E.H. MacDonald's view of the Algoma region Read More

Zeal

William Holman Hunt's portrait of Henry Wentworth Monk Read More

Cross-Reference

Italo-Byzantine crosses part of the Lillian Malcove Collection Read More

More Than Meets the Eye

Glaucoma affects major vision centres in the brain, as well as eyes Read More

A Taxing Question

Income near equal for one-earner and two-earner families with children Read More

Painful Truth

Study shows women with severe arthritis are half as likely to undergo surgery than men Read More

Support for Aches and Pains

U of T's Centre for the Study of Pain Read More

Discovering Canada’s Past

Excavating sites of ancient settlements Read More

The Benefits of Fast Food

Low-grade or even recycled food grease can be turned into a usable diesel fuel substitute Read More

Why Drinkers Smoke

Nicotine in cigarettes can promote alcohol consumption Read More

Pressure on the Womb

Blood pressure medication during pregnancy lowers child's birth weight Read More

The Thousand-Year Itch

How do you get 10 scholars to wax anything but bored about the millennium? Scratch the surface of the Y2K hype and ask them to predict the future of their fields Read More

Green Power

A 1969 article in The Varsity ignited students to start the Canadian environmental movement Read More

Stay the Course

Researchers test perceptions of highway traffic speed Read More

Salt-water solution

Isolation of a gene could improve farming productivity in areas of the world where crops are compromised by saline irrigation water Read More

Did Humans Evolve by the Sea?

Evidence points to coastal diets rich in fatty acids as key to early brain development Read More