Greg Wells is at the forefront of a relatively new field called exercise medicine, which means he looks at how disease affects a person's ability to exercise—and at how exercise can be used to treat that person.

How do children come to realize that they themselves might be targets of prejudice? It may depend on their age.

From the development of the light bulb over a century ago to today's LED technology, lighting has come a long way.

A wooden statue of a king, a private offering chapel, a monumental building and remains of over 80 animal mummies found by a University of Toronto -led team in Abydos, Egypt reveal intriguing information about ritual activity associated with the great gods.

Countries that more strictly uphold their cultural norms are less likely to promote women as leaders, unless those norms support equal opportunity for both sexes, shows a new paper from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.

The groundbreaking research of two University of Toronto professors has been recognized with the 2011 NSERC John C. Polanyi Award, which honours an individual or team whose Canadian-based research has led to a recent outstanding advance in the natural sciences or engineering.

When US President Barack Obama declared his official support for same-sex marriage on May 9, the Twitterverse went into overdrive.

A group of the world's leading environmental scholars are sounding the alarm that human societies need to transform their national and international environmental institutions into a more coherent and robust planetary stewardship model to steer away from rapid and irreversible changes to the Earth's subsystems.

How much power does your computer use? If you unplugged it, you probably wouldn't notice a difference in your hydro bills.

It has been a year since a 9.0 magnitude earthquake rocked the northeast coast of Japan on March 11, 2011, generating a tsunami that caused tremendous devastation.

Since James Till and Ernest McCulloch first made their stem cell discovery 50 years ago, Toronto has steadily become a world renowned centre for stem cell research.

Five U of'T researchers and students have been awarded prizes from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council (NSERC) in recognition of their scholarly achievements.