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No commentsZoo’s new pandas a unique opportunity for Scarborough students
Joint UTSC-Zoo seminar spotlights giant panda conservation efforts, university-zoo connection
On March 25, 2013, Toronto’s fuzziest celebrities arrived. Er Shun and Da Mao are the Toronto Zoo’s first giant pandas since 1985. The pandas, which represent improving international ties between China and Canada, inspired a seminar on panda conservation efforts
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Calling out the stigma of mental health
Campus initiatives aim to change youth attitudes on mental health
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Staying connected, even in space
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield beams the cosmos to Earth via social media
No commentsU of T hosts first tri-campus TEDx event
Speakers included Nobel Laureate, Dinosaur Comics creator
A “neuroscience arms race”
The increasingly lucrative field of brain research and the politics behind it
Seals, sleep, and serotonin
The mysteries of sleep onset and maintenance in unilateral sleeping seals
Electrodes against anorexia
Treating anorexia nervosa with Deep Brain Stimulation
Next-gen circuits able to survive laser attacks
A team of engineers at Caltech has created a self-healing, integrated chip that could one day lead to our beloved [...]
Visualizing the activity of individual neurons across the entire brain
What looks like a time-lapse video of city lights at night turns out to be active neurons within the brain [...]
Surprising method of survival observed in extremophilic algae
An extremophilic type of algae has the ability to survive in extreme environments such as the high temperatures of pristine [...]
Amplified greenhouse effect causes the north to appear more like the south
An international team of scientists has found that amplified greenhouse effects in the Arctic have resulted in northern seasons and [...]
