Life-threatening bacterial infections cause tens of thousands of deaths every year in North America. Increasingly, many infections are resistant to first-line antibiotics. Unfortunately, current methods of culturing bacteria ...

Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry

Jun 12, 2013 not rated yet 1 |

If policy-makers want to do something about falling birth rates, they may want to take a look at improving how people are treated at work when they step outside of traditional family roles at home.

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

Jun 11, 2013 4 / 5 (4) 3

Many plants are self-fertilizing, meaning they act as both mother and father to their own seeds. This strategy – known as selfing – guarantees reproduction but, over time, leads to reduced diversity and ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jun 10, 2013 not rated yet 0 |

By some measures the over-the-counter derivatives business is the largest business in the world with over $600 trillion in transactions outstanding. This business plays a significant role in the profitability of global banking ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Jun 05, 2013 not rated yet 0

If you're a small charity looking for some corporate largesse, pegging your ask to a big morale-boosting event planned for your community may help seal the deal, suggests a new study on corporate giving.

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

May 22, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 1

University of Toronto engineering researchers, working with colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University, have published new insights into how materials transfer heat, which could lead eventually to smaller, more powerful electronic ...

Physics - Condensed Matter

May 16, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

To reach Canada's goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 17 per cent below the 2005 level by the year 2020, federal and provincial governments, led by the Prime Minister and provincial premiers, must reach agreement ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 15, 2013 4 / 5 (4) 1

Environments containing species that are distantly related to one another are more productive than those containing closely related species, according to new research from the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC).

Biology - Evolution

May 13, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 2 |

The best investment portfolios are selected from the widest array of choices, right? Not so, says a new study authored by researchers at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and the Bank of Canada. It says ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Apr 30, 2013 4 / 5 (1) 0

A group of 50 researchers from around the globe, including biology professors Daniel Warren, Ph.D., from Saint Louis University and Leslie Buck, Ph.D., from the University of Toronto, have spent the last ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Apr 23, 2013 not rated yet 0

Call it the ultimate nature documentary. Scientists at the University of Toronto have recorded atomic motions in real time, offering a glimpse into the very essence of chemistry and biology at the atomic level. Their recording ...

Physics - General Physics

Apr 17, 2013 4.1 / 5 (14) 6 |

The great age of the embryos is unusual because almost all known dinosaur embryos are from the Cretaceous Period. The Cretaceous ended some 125 million years after the bones at the Lufeng site were buried ...

Other Sciences - Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 10, 2013 4.9 / 5 (17) 2 |

Chemical Engineering Professor Tim Bender and Post-Doctoral Fellow Benoit Lessard's discovery of an unexpected side product of polymer synthesis could have implications for the manufacture of commercial polymers used in sealants, ...

Chemistry - Polymers

Apr 05, 2013 3.7 / 5 (7) 0 |

Pigments found in plants and purple bacteria employed to provide protection from sun damage do more than just that. Researchers from the University of Toronto and University of Glasgow have found that they ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 04, 2013 4.3 / 5 (7) 0 |

A new guide from a team of behaviour economists at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management aims to help practitioners develop effective "nudges".

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Apr 04, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0