The wiring and rewiring of the brain never ends. Neural pathways are constantly being reshaped as we interact with the world and learn new things. At 91亚色 and MIT鈥檚 McGovern Institute, scientists are combining detailed analysis of brain activity with computational modelling to better understand that change. 91亚色 Assistant Professor Kohitij Kar, McGovern Institute Postdoctoral […]
91亚色 is poised to welcome 11 doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers through the first wave of the federal Canada Impact+ Research Training Awards (CIRTA) initiative, reflecting the University鈥檚 strong research excellence and ability to attract top international research talent. In total the CIRTA are worth $1.4 million in funding 鈥 $40,000 per year for […]
A team led by 91亚色 researchers has discovered the fastest wind near a supermassive black鈥痟ole鈥痚ver鈥痜ound at ultraviolet wavelengths, driven by鈥痶he disc of matter,聽or quasar, surrounding the black hole.鈥犫淭his quasar has a black hole of聽1.7鈥痓illion鈥痶imes鈥痶he mass of the Sun.聽That鈥檚聽typical.聽What鈥檚聽not typical is that it聽has gas moving towards us at 30 per cent of the speed of light,鈥 says 91亚色 Professor Patrick Hall鈥痮f the Faculty of Science.
Today, the University announced the launch of a new Centre of Excellence 鈥 Artificial Intelligence for Public Health Advancement (AIPHA) funded through an Ontario Research Fund 鈥 Research Excellence program.
At this point, Avian flu H5N1 is thought incapable of transmitting between humans, but a recent case in British Columbia with an unknown source of transmission has piqued the curiosity and concern of scientists, including 91亚色 Professor Seyed Moghadas.
While it may not currently feel like it in parts of the country, this coming Friday marks the first day of spring, known astronomically as Spring Equinox, and this will also bring an increased chance of Aurora viewing in Canada.
How people with compromised immune systems respond to vaccines is an important area of immunological research. A new study led by 91亚色 found that not only could machine-learning models accurately pinpoint differences in healthy controls and those living with HIV, but also found outliers in both groups that provide fascinating glimpses into the complex nature of the immune system and what personalized medicine could look like in the future, accounting for variables such as age, comorbidities and genetics.
A new study out of 91亚色 has found that the amount of atmospheric trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), the tiniest forever chemical, significantly declined in Toronto during COVID in 2020, which researchers say is good news for the world鈥檚 ability to mitigate it in the future.
The Tokai to Kamioka (T2K) experiment in Japan and the NuMI Off-axis 谓e聽Appearance (NOvA) experiment in the United States, previously considered rival experiments, conducted a joint analysis and published their first results today in the journal Nature.
