Science

From spreading misinformation to automated science

A beginner’s guide to cooking up an anticancer plate

The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors?  Samuel Dumas: I’m in my third year, and my major is mathematics. What is your research? My research focuses primarily on invertebrate biodiversity. It’s a project in urban ecology and I’m working with the stormwater ponds in Brampton. What’s really cool about them is

How dating apps are changing our relationships

The Strand: What year are you and what are your majors?  Jackson Leslie: I’m in my fourth year. I specialize in Neuroscience, and I do a major in Fundamental Genetics. What is your research? Right now, I am doing research in Dr. McLaurin’s lab at Sunnybrook. My project looks at combinatorial therapies for Alzheimer’s disease—we

Upper-year students talk program selection, experiences, and advice.

Highlights include penis fencing and long-distance friendships

The Strand: What year are you, and what are your majors?  Emilie Nero: My name is Emilie Nero. I am in fourth year now, and I’m doing a double major in Biology and Health and Disease. What is your research? We’ve all heard of microplastics and how they’re getting into very weird matrices. We’ve heard

“Don’t stop at five senses when you can install a sixth one,”—a DIY cyborg (probably)

Neuralink’s controversial implantable brain-computer interface is commencing its clinical trials