SCIENCE
Why do we sleep?
Felicia Ceban
January 19, 2021
From rats to dolphins: the search to understand why we spend a third of our lives unconscious
Why are social media companies under so much scrutiny?
Adam Lam
January 19, 2021
Reset by Professor Ronald Deibert explores social media’s amplification of social media
Learning online, losing sleep
Kellie Weisse
January 19, 2021
Online classes worsen student sleep schedules
The failures of academic categorization
Maya Merchant
January 19, 2021
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
Adam Lam
December 23, 2020
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
Adam Lam
November 24, 2020
The resilience of student organizations in finding online solutions during a pandemic
The mitochondrial gene therapy that could redefine parenthood
Jess Nash
November 24, 2020
How three-way IVF raises questions about heredity, ethics, and reproductive rights
The viruses within our bodies may contain clues to fighting cancer
Joe Walton
November 24, 2020
Retroviruses are locked within host genomes, like insects in amber