SCIENCE
The failures of academic categorization
Gifted programs are a common feature in public grade schools and foster accelerated learning for “high-ability” children, who are classified as such based on their intelligence quotient (IQ). Since the rise in popularity of gifted programs in the 1950s, there has been minimal change to the gifted categorization process, which ...
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women in STEM
Findings highlighted from Canada-wide survey of graduate studies by the Toronto Science Policy Network at UofT
How UofT students are hacking, engineering, and running competitions during COVID-19
The resilience of student organizations in finding online solutions during a pandemic
The mitochondrial gene therapy that could redefine parenthood
How three-way IVF raises questions about heredity, ethics, and reproductive rights
The viruses within our bodies may contain clues to fighting cancer
Retroviruses are locked within host genomes, like insects in amber
Zoom fatigue
The psychology behind online schooling
How immigrant nurses answered the call to respond to Canada’s COVID-19 pandemic
The overlooked story of foreign-trained nurses on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic
The biotechnological evolution
The implications of Neuralink and other BCIs
Science has a plastic pollution problem
…but we can all do something about it
A particular pandemic
How basic science has driven the COVID-19 response