Frugal Fortification
A U of T nutritional scientist has developed a low-cost product to fight vitamin and mineral deficiency in developing countries
Research & Ideas
The Sage of Bay Street
David Rosenberg warned of a financial crisis few others saw coming. So why, amid ongoing global turmoil, is Bay Street’s most noted pessimist ready to change his tune?
A Shift in Perception
Discoveries in brain science are prompting new theories about how our senses work – and how they affect our understanding of the world
Selling to the Senses
Companies appeal to hearing, taste and sight to affect consumer perception
Digging Deep
How many new dinosaur species can one person help find? Professor David Evans is up to eight
Do the Locomotion
U of T’s Knowledge Media Design Institute challenges its students to use media to raise awareness
Ingenious Medicine
Genetic testing may soon reveal what pharmaceutical drugs work best for you, with fewest side-effects
The Single Life
Is ‘one’ really the loneliest number?
Cash Mob
It's like a flash mob, but motivated to buy
Watchful Eyes
Security cameras are everywhere. A new app invites Torontonians to help map them
Clash of the Britons
Was the War of 1812 actually a civil war?
Rotary Club
How does one build a human-powered helicopter?
Personalized Medication
Genetic testing may reveal what pharmaceutical drugs work best for you, with the fewest side effects
Subway to Mecca
The Saudi Arabian city is wrestling with a transit problem of Koranic proportions
Escaping Gridlock
What’s the solution to Toronto’s traffic problems?
Perfect Harmony
A new U of T research centre will investigate the curative power of music
How Music Gets Inside
At its simplest, music is just sound. And sound is just vibration. So how does it get inside us, and influence us?
Revolutionary Road
Forty years ago, an intrepid group of professors and students sparked progress for women across U of T
The Joe College-Betty Coed Consciousness-Raising Blues
Myrna Kostash reflects upon the new women's studies course at the University of Toronto in a 1972 Miss Chatelaine article
A Cut Above
U of T researchers have devised a way to refurbish donor lungs before they’re transplanted
Debugging
A forestry prof believes a local parasite could help protect Ontario’s ash trees from a deadly invader
Words, by the Numbers
What can a computer reveal about a work of fiction? Plenty, it seems
The $100 Artificial Leg
The simple, inexpensive device matches the function of far more costly technology
Faster, Higher, Stronger
You don’t need an Olympic training regimen to get healthy through exercise
Labour Days
Chinese propaganda posters from the 1960s celebrate work as an act of nation-building
Computer Says No
The challenge to improve online dating
Clear and Present Danger
ABC correspondent Muhammad Lila reports from Pakistan and Afghanistan
Seeing Disease
Researchers are developing better ways to detect serious illnesses before they become life-threatening – and while they’re still treatable
Milestones of Medical Imaging
From X-rays to MRI
Planet Hunters
With the discovery of hundreds of worlds around other stars, will we find that Earth is not alone in bearing life?
Strange New Worlds
A few intriguing oddities from the hunt for exoplanets
How India Innovates
A new institute will study the country’s successes
Scholarship Honours Toronto Developer
Friends and family of the late Paul Oberman have created an award for architecture and urban design
Flood Control
As New Orleans rebuilds, U of T students are helping the city rethink its approach to water management
Safer Births
Equipping health workers in Kenya with smartphones could bring better care to pregnant women and their infants
Elderburbia
A term for Canada's growing population of senior citizens
Power Plants
A blueprint for an “artificial leaf” could lead to solar cells that generate a lot more power
A Computer Screen You Can Fold
Thinner, more flexible displays could radically change how we use and experience computers
Politics and the One Per Cent
What effect will unlimited corporate spending have on the U.S. election?
Roadside Harvest
Toxic elements in most city-grown vegetables are at acceptable levels, according to a new study. But be careful of the eggplant!
An Apple for the Students
Autistic children develop better communications skills when using iPads, researcher finds
Solar-Powered Flight
A new kind of aircraft could fly 1,000 km powered only by the sunlight that shines on its back
Peer Pressure
A nursing prof is using social networks to help reduce the spread of HIV-AIDS in Ghana
Rob Ford, the Opera
In which God may or may not be Margaret Atwood
Anti-Prejudice Campaigns Can Backfire
They may have reverse effect of what they intend, U of T Scarborough psychologists find
Saving Lives, One Death at a Time
What one of the world’s largest mortality studies is teaching us about public health
The Health of Nations
Why improving the well-being of people in other countries should concern Canadians
Technologies for Aging Gracefully
A University of Toronto lab is harnessing computers to make life better as we age
Breath of Life
Bev Bradley is developing technology to give hospitals in low-income countries a more reliable supply of medical oxygen
Scanning the Arctic Skies
Clear and dark during the winter, Canada’s North is the perfect place for a new U of T astronomy project
Business Boot Camp
U of T’s “technopreneur” program gives scientists such as Mallika Das a crash course in running their own company
Protecting the Jobless
How should employment insurance be reformed?
Is That Mozart, or a Machine?
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
Lakeside Views
What principles should guide how a city develops its waterfront?
I’ll Rassle You for a Dozen Up!
Small-town Ontario English preserves older terms that have fallen out of use in the province’s larger cities
The 2,000-Year Info Revolution
“Computers” have assisted humans through history
Bad Drivers?
U of T study shatters myth that recent immigrants cause more car accidents than other Canadians
Marshall’s Laws
Fifty years after the publication of his most famous works, we’re still making sense of all Marshall McLuhan had to say
Mind Games
Doctors have been trying for decades to classify mental illnesses. So why do precise definitions still elude us?
Timing is Everything
Modern life is 24-7, but there may be negative consequences to defying our body's internal clock