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Vitamin-powered batteries: how ‘self-driving’ labs are using AI to develop remarkable new materials

It can take many years for a new substance to get from a successful lab experiment to a solution ready to roll out across the world. But AI can be used to sidestep this bottleneck

The Guardian - UK

Enrollment in Korean classes has shot up. Thank K-pop

College student enrollment in language classes has plateaued in recent years, but enrollment in Korean language classes rose 78% from 2009 to 2016.

WEKU

Biden intelligence adviser previously vetted deals for Israeli NSO Group

Jeremy Bash served on committee advising on sales of company’s Pegasus spyware to foreign agencies

The Guardian - UK

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Electricity gap: the Nigerian solar battery taking clean energy off grid

Tens of millions of people across the globe still lack basic access to electricity, affecting lives and livelihoods on a vast scale – but University of Toronto graduate Olugbenga Olubanjo is on a mission to change that

The Guardian - UK

Could self-driving trucks solve the supply chain crisis? Meet the AI trailblazer who thinks so

Prof Raquel Urtasun is the founder of a startup at the cutting edge of driverless technology – and the University of Toronto has been the perfect incubator for her research

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re using the Earth as a battery’: how the University of Toronto is decarbonising its historic main campus

An ambitious infrastructure project at the university hopes to show other heritage sites around the world how to balance energy transformation with architectural preservation

The Guardian - UK

Women who become diabetic at young age likely to begin menopause early, study shows

MPs have called on government to invite all women aged 45 for an NHS health check

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Astronomers discover oldest known star clusters in Webb's first image

Astronomers say they've found the most distant globular clusters ever discovered in a 9 billion year old galaxy pictured in Webb's First Deep Field.

Inverse

Avicanna Expands Its Cannabinoid Based Drug For Epilepsy Research Program In Partnership With The University Of Toronto

Avicanna Inc. (OTCQX: AVCNF) (TSX:AVCN) (FSE:0NN), a commercial stage, international biopharmaceutical company focused on the commercialization of evidence-based, cannabinoid-based products, has expanded its research collaboration in field of epilepsy with a new collaboration with the

Benzinga

Canadian student uses hundreds of pieces of tape in Queen tribute

Matt Palandra, 19, a computer engineering student at the University of Toronto, spent seven hours creating an A4 image of the Queen using tape.

The Independent UK

TikTok beauty queen dies in freak skydiving accident after 'opening parachute too late'

University of Toronto student and budding beauty queen Tanya Pardazi died during a skydiving trip which her friends said was supposed to be another of her "adventures" in Ontario on August 27

Daily Mirror

The Tarnished Legacy of Duncan Campbell Scott

How educators are teaching the poetry of the man who oversaw residential schools

The Walrus

Students returning to campus want the 'university experience' missed during COVID-19

Universities are implementing COVID-19 safety plans to maintain safe and healthy environments — through protocols like enhanced cleaning or a focus on ventilation and air quality — for the imminent return of students to in-person learning on campuses.

The Conversation

Buildings can take inspiration from nature to become efficient — and beautiful

A team of researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada have designed “active” building walls that directly take inspiration from marine biology.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Scientists Uncover Oldest Groundwaters in South Africa

An international team led by the University of Toronto researchers have discovered 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater in South Africa, shedding more light on how life is sustained below the Earth’s surface and how it may thrive on other planets. The same team previously discovered one-billion-year-old groundwaters in a mine, in Ontario, Canada,…

The Conversation

How Commonwealth universities profited from Indigenous dispossession through land grants

Animated by social movements such as #RhodesMustFall and #BlackLivesMatter, universities today have entered a period of critical self-reflection on their histories.

Asharq Al-Awsat

It's (not) Alive! Google Row Exposes AI Troubles

An internal fight over whether Google built technology with human-like consciousness has spilled into the open, exposing the ambitions and risks inherent in artificial intelligence that can feel all too real. The Silicon Valley giant suspended one of its engineers last week who argued the firm's AI system LaMDA seemed…

Daily Mirror

Kids who grow up with dogs less likely to develop Crohn's disease, study finds

Scientists at the University of Toronto have found that children who grow up with pet dogs are less likely to get Crohn's disease later in life - but the same can't be said for families with cats

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The Guardian - US

Private equity executive sought to undermine NSO critics, data suggests

Information released under data protection laws sheds light on apparent effort to undermine Canadian research group Citizen Lab

The Conversation

Children across Canada deserve a professional early childhood education workforce

A report released April 13 by University of Toronto researchers highlights what many in the early learning and child-care sector have long known: Canada’s early childhood educators (ECEs) are undervalued, underpaid and under-resourced. Unless governments get serious about addressing their working conditions, a Canada-wide child-care plan will be derailed.

The Times of India

Adults exposed to chronic parental domestic violence have an elevated prevalence of depression: Study

Toronto [Canada], April 20 (ANI): According to a new study by the University of Toronto, adults exposed to chronic parental domestic violence have an elevated prevalence of depression, anxiety and substance abuse disorders, and lower levels of social support than their peers who do not experience childhood adversity.

Dynamite News

Research: Parental domestic violence may effect their children mental health in adulthood

According to a new study by the University of Toronto, adults exposed to chronic parental domestic violence have an elevated prevalence of depression, anxiety and substance abuse disorders, and lower levels of social support than their peers who do not experience childhood adversity. More on Dynamite News:

The Conversation

Libraries around the world are helping safeguard Ukrainian books and culture

My mother was born in Sambir, Ukraine, and my father in Przemyśl, Poland. They both spent their childhoods as refugees.

The Guardian - US

Victim’s iPhone hacked by Pegasus spyware weeks after Apple sued NSO

Quartet targeted by clients – thought to be Jordanian government agencies – of Israeli company even after Apple sued in November

Asharq Al-Awsat

Chemicals in Nails Salons More Harmful than E-waste, New Study Finds

A recent University of Toronto study, in collaboration with the Occupational Cancer Research Center, Center for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease, and the Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre, shows that nail technicians in salons are exposed to several chemicals widely used as plasticizers and flame retardants. The study, published…

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