Science - University of Toronto Magazine

Julie Claycomb. Illustration by Adam Cruft

Go Argonautes!

Julie Claycomb is researching a group of proteins that may yield new treatments for a variety of genetic and viral diseases Read More

Raluca Ellis and Nigel Morton. Photo by Jason Lee

What Do the Adrenal Glands Do?

U of T team's video wins Scientific American challenge Read More

What Causes Altitude Sickness?

New U of T research upends theories about how the body adapts to less oxygen Read More

Is Air Quality Affecting Your Health?

A U of T prof is looking at the relationship between traffic emissions, health and how close people live to major roads Read More

How Stars Die

Some blow out, others just fade away Read More

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Hairball

There's nothing fluffy about this Read More

Students Alyssa Molinaro (right) and Emmanuelle Frechette at the Koffler Scientific Reserve. Photo by Koffler Scientific Reserve

Future Forest

Will higher air temperatures affect Canada's evergreen forests? Read More

Digging Deep

How many new dinosaur species can one person help find? Professor David Evans is up to eight Read More

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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? Read More

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Debugging

A forestry prof believes a local parasite could help protect Ontario’s ash trees from a deadly invader Read More

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Planet Hunters

With the discovery of hundreds of worlds around other stars, will we find that Earth is not alone in bearing life? Read More

Strange New Worlds

A few intriguing oddities from the hunt for exoplanets Read More

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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 Read More

Timing is Everything

Modern life is 24-7, but there may be negative consequences to defying our body's internal clock Read More

Seeing Into the “Soul” of Cells

A technology developed at U of T to analyze cells could lead to earlier disease diagnoses and more targeted treatments Read More

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Overcoming Resistance

Professor Leah Cowen is researching a way to lower drug resistance in fungi Read More

Seeing Red

Colours affect our emotional state, and maybe our motor control as well, new research has found Read More

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Unlocking Our Potential

U of T researchers suggest life’s early years might be even more important than we thought Read More

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The Next Big Idea

Ten concepts that could shape the future: from digital credentials to safer drugs to DNA-tailored diets and more Read More

Life on Mars?

Scientists are trying to determine if methane in the Martian atmosphere came from living organisms Read More

Iciclology 101

Most icicles have the same carrot shape. But differences in temperature, wind conditions and water composition affect their final form Read More

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Easing Depression

Studies find that electrical stimulation to one side of the brain helps improve depression Read More

Can Our Forests Stand the Heat?

Scientists discover unusual die-off in sugar-maple leaves due to high spring temperatures Read More

Planetary Mysteries

Discoveries of new planets outside our solar system are forcing astronomers to rethink theories of how planets form Read More

The Shapes of Bones

New technique using X-rays could help forensic scientists identify the dead Read More

Smashing!

Now that the Large Hadron Collider is working, U of T physicists are preparing to sift through mountains of data in search of the elusive Higgs boson Read More

The True Nature of Time

A century after Einstein proposed his theory of relativity, scientists are still debating how time works Read More

We Are Star Stuff

A large asteroid could destroy all life on earth. But a "rain" of extraterrestrial debris long ago may have led to the conditions that started it, says a U of T geologist Read More

The Rules of Attraction

Tinkering with pheromones turns fruit flies into indiscriminate lovers Read More

The World’s Largest Telescope

As scientists prepare the next-generation space telescope, University of Toronto astronomers are pushing for an even larger ground-based scope Read More

A Healing Spark

A tiny electrode implanted in the brain may help patients with Alzheimer’s disease, depression and other disorders Read More

Ms. Universe

Astronaut Julie Payette prepares for her second journey into space Read More

Environmental Toxins

Q&A with Miriam Diamond, co-chair of Ontario's Toxics Reduction Scientific Expert Panel Read More

Climate Detectives

A northern lake may offer clues about the future of global warming Read More

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Wiki Science

Faster and more open collaboration among scientists could yield a wealth of discoveries Read More

The Lives of Otters

High levels of mercury and lead in fish may not be good for them - or us Read More

Master of the Miniature

Postdoctoral fellow Naomi Matsuura wins the 2007 Polanyi Prize Read More

This spring, an international team of physicists, including several from U of T, will launch the most ambitious science experiment ever devised. Their goal: to unlock the secrets of the universe Read More