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Why More Women Aren’t Becoming Engineers

The number of women getting into engineering in Canada has been on the decline, despite a decade of efforts to encourage more girls to think of technical careers. Even though women currently make up more than half of the undergraduate…

Behind GO Transit’s Passenger Charter

After thousands of Ontario riders petitioned GO Transit for better service more than two years ago, the regional transportation service set to work on a passenger charter to deliver customer satisfaction for its thousands of daily riders. A five-point plan…

Strides Made in Optical Invisibility

If young Harry and friends had not cruised around Hogwarts unseen, hidden by an “invisibility cloak,” much of the hype surrounding metamaterials might itself never have seen the light of day. But when, half a decade ago, researchers made tentative…

Halloween Science: The Bleeding Edge of Forensics

In fictional television shows such as Dexter and CSI, patterns in blood splatters at the scene of the crime can be counted on to lead investigators to the killer. In real life, they’re a useful tool, but an imperfect one. Scientists who have…

Astronaut Touches Down On Campus

Astronaut Robert Thirsk, the first Canadian to live on the International Space Station (ISS), visited the University of Toronto on October 27th. His visit was an opportunity to review the results of an experiment Thirsk conducted while aboard the ISS,…
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