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Breaking the Ice: New study on triboelectric nanogenerators could help avoid costly flight delays

Rahul Goel stands next to a rocket at NordSpace's facility.

Company founded by U of T Engineering’s Rahul Goel prepares for Canada’s first-ever commercial rocket launch 

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CREATE grant puts sensing, data and analytics in the service of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

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A grey box is seen attached to a pillar on the platform of the Toronto Transit Commission's St. George subway station.

New trains and reduced friction braking improve air quality in Toronto’s subways

In this photomicrograph, points of patterned laser light (blue) are being projected on computationally selected positions to activate the muscles of a genetically modified, one-millimetre-long C. elegans worm. The technique could offer a new way of developing organism-based microrobots for a variety of different applications. (Image: Xianke Dong, Zhaoyi Xu)

RoboWorm: Light-controlled organism offers a new strategy for micro-scale robotics

Professors Lisa Austin (Faculty of Law) and David Lie (ECE) — photographed before the COVID-19 pandemic — are part of a multidisciplinary team behind a new global study that explores the privacy expectations and behaviour of smartphone users. (Photo: Jessica MacInnis)

Privacy study sheds light on why we grant or deny app requests

Lucia Stafford (Year 4 CivE) will compete against her older sister Gabriela DeBues-Stafford in the 1,500-metre race at the Tokyo Olympics. Both athletes studied at U of T and ran track with the Varsity Blues (Photo: Johnny Guatto)

Friends and family: U of T’s Lucia Stafford to share track with big sister in Olympic debut