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Media invited to see the next generation of STEM researchers compete for top prize

Improving the quality of life of Alzheimer’s patients, how artificial intelligence can battle wildfires and dual defense systems to tackle auto theft are some of the STEM projects young scientists will show off at the 91��ɫ Region Science and Technology Fair (YRSTF) this Saturday, April 6. Top projects will receive gold, silver and bronze medals and secure the honour of representing 91��ɫ Region at the Canada Wide Science Fair in Ottawa this year.

91��ɫ Prof Michael Rotondi named as Applied Public Health Chair for research with urban Indigenous communities

Astronauts have surprising ability to know how far they ‘fly’ in space

New research led by 91��ɫ Faculty of Health researcher Laurence Harris finds astronauts have a surprising ability to orient themselves and gauge distance travelled while free from the pull of gravity.

Women with high-risk HPV and metabolic syndrome have almost three times risk for mortality, 91��ɫ researchers find

Using large-scale U.S. data following patients for more than a decade, 91��ɫ Faculty of Health researchers found that women with both metabolic syndrome and high-risk strains of human papillomavirus (HPV) are at a 2.6 times higher risk for mortality than women without either condition, suggesting a need to look at chronic disease comorbidity when it comes to HPV-related cancers.

Five myths about love and desire

My love language is peer-reviewed research

From the Five Love Languages to the concept of “Happy Wife, Happy Life,” popular culture is riddled with ideas of how sex and relationships are supposed to work, but does the science back these ideas up? According to Faculty of Health Assistant Professor and Research Chair in Relationships and Sexuality Amy Muise, the answer is frequently no. Ahead of Valentine’s Day, Muise, also director of the Sexual Health and Relationship (SHaRe) Lab, can offer alternative theories that are supported by her research and other literature in the field. 

Researchers highlight data gaps in cyclist, pedestrian incidents on Toronto streets

Pedestrian and cyclist injuries in Toronto underreported: 91��ɫ study

91��ɫ prof leads new study finding Toronto police data underreports cyclist and pedestrian injuries

Cycling and pedestrian injuries are severely underrepresented by police data, particularly those not involving a motor vehicle, according to new research believed to be the first of its kind in Canada and led by 91��ɫ Professor Alison Macpherson.

War on bugs can’t be won, 91��ɫ U researchers declare

From a wartime spread of antimicrobial resistant disease in Ukraine, to superbugs in China causing “white lung” pneumonia in children, 2023 brought no shortage of new evidence that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) continues to be a pressing problem globally, and this pattern shows no sign of abating in 2024 unless a radical shift occurs.