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Professor Jeff Brook (Dalla Lana School of Public Health, ChemE). (Photo: Marit Mitchell)

‘Look after each other’: Professor Jeff Brook on the threat posed to cities by extreme heat – and how to respond

Wireless routers and ethernet among the many ways to connect to the Internet. (Photo: twenty20photos, via Envato)

Internet connectivity, explained

Left: Fish such as tilapia can disperse and collect pigment granules in their skin to change their colour and shading. Right: An optofluidic cell created by U of T Engineering researchers achieves the same effect by mixing two immiscible fluids, one of which contains a dye. (Image credits: left, Richard Wheeler (licensed under Creative Commons); right, Raphael Kay.)

Dynamic building facades inspired by marine organisms could reduce heating, cooling and lighting costs

U of T Engineering's Professor Mark Fox (MIE) leads the initiative to create a Canadian catalogue of urban data sets. (Photo: Laura Pedersen)

U of T’s Urban Data Centre to help ‘wrangle’ the data needed to build smarter cities