Children in a school that uses corporal punishment performed significantly worse in tasks involving "executive functioning" – psychological processes such as planning, abstract thinking, and delaying gratification – ...
Jul 26, 2011
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With the final launch of the Atlantis, NASA retires its space shuttle program. We spoke to Professor Chris Damaren of the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies about the end of an era in manned ...
Jul 11, 2011
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University of Toronto researchers have derived inspiration from the photosynthetic apparatus in plants to engineer a new generation of nanomaterials that control and direct the energy absorbed from light.
Jul 10, 2011
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When NASA's final space shuttle mission launches today it will carry four astronauts and some unusual passengers – yeast cell growth experiments developed by Canadian researchers at the University of Toronto's Donnelly ...
Jul 08, 2011
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A Q&A with physicist William Trischuk about the Large Hadron Collider.
Jun 28, 2011
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In a paper published in Nature Photonics, U of T Engineering researchers report a new solar cell that may pave the way to inexpensive coatings that efficiently convert the sun's rays to electricity.
Jun 26, 2011
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University of Toronto Mississauga researchers have developed a "molecular glue" that sticks cancer-promoting proteins to a cell's membrane -- shutting off a cancer cell's growth.
Jun 22, 2011
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The secret to preventing or reversing premature aging may be found in a DNA “off switch” that humans share with common yeast, according to new research from the University of Toronto.
Jun 15, 2011
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A researcher from the University of Toronto Faculty Of Medicine’s Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research is part of an international team which has discovered a new metabolic pathway for the production ...
Jun 13, 2011
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Quantum mechanics is famous for saying that a tree falling in a forest when there's no one there doesn't make a sound. Quantum mechanics also says that if anyone is listening, it interferes with and changes the tree. And ...
Jun 02, 2011
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Not allowed to advertise your booze or smokes on a billboard? That's okay. Research shows online advertising works especially well in places with government ad bans.
May 31, 2011
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If you’re in the lower latitudes of Canada right now, take a look outside. Most trees are in the process of sprouting their 2011 crop of leaves. Only a few weeks ago, they appeared barren ...
May 17, 2011
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Why isn't knowledge transfer happening more often in companies spending money on it?
May 16, 2011
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Graduate students from the University of Toronto's Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry’s food engineering laboratory helped to set the Guinness Book of World Record May 10 for largest ...
May 12, 2011
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