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Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss
I was just a baby scientist when I discovered the hormone that made Ozempic possible. I had no idea how life-changing—and world-changing—that breakthrough would be
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“I like to think someone’s out there waiting for us”: Meet the astrophysicist looking for alien life in the clouds of Venus
After a groundbreaking discovery that found possible evidence of life in Venus’s acidic skies, Toronto-born Sara Seager is leading a robot mission to the planet
City News
“Just because you can doesn’t mean you should”: Why this Toronto Zoo wildlife scientist isn’t celebrating “de-extinct” dire wolves
Reproductive scientist Gabriela Mastromonaco on the impossibility of truly reviving extinct species, the dangerous implications of this science for conservation efforts and whether tech bros with deep pockets are playing God
Geek out about space with Bill Nye the Science Guy
For anyone who has spent any time in an elementary school since the early 1990s, there’s really only one person who outranks...
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Weird Mayoral-Campaign Idea Evaluator: artificially intelligent traffic lights
As the 2014 mayoral campaign continues, the candidates are going to advance plenty of policy ideas. Some of those ideas are bound...
City News
The eight coolest things Chris Hadfield did from space
As if being the first Canadian to walk in space wasn’t enough, astronaut Chris Hadfield has become a social media...
Food & Drink
Weekend food read: the New York Times exposé on the extraordinary science of junk food
The fascinating cover story of this week’s New York Times Magazine provides a insider look at the disturbing and deeply...
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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 18, because we’re stem cell pioneers
Toronto is home to some of the top stem cell research institutes in the world, including the McEwen Centre, the Centre for...
Food & Drink
The world’s first lab-grown burger could be ready by October
According to Mark Post, the head of physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, all that stands between you and a...
Food & Drink
Is drinking coffee simply too taxing? There’s an inhaler for that
After marvelling (and despairing a little) at breathable chocolate and bacon inhalers, only the latter of which turned out to be...
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Today in Toronto: Gryphon Trio, National Geographic Live and more
Caroline, or Change It was only a matter of time before the adventurous Acting Up put on this show by big-issues playwright...
Food & Drink
Meat grown in a lab could grace our plates by year’s end (but it probably won’t)
In vitro meat is one of those futuristic products that feels like it belongs to a future full of hovercraft, silver jumpsuits and...
City News
Memoir: How a 59-year-old neuroscientist and university professor fell prey to opiates—again
My family and I moved to the Netherlands from Toronto in the summer of 2010. I’d been a psychology professor at the University...
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The Weekender: Don Giovanni, Literary Death Match and six other events on our to-do list
1. LITERARY DEATH MATCH TORONTO In this singularly silly lit event, four authors ( Grace O’Connell, Carolyn Black, Rebecca...
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Australian scientists developing “stay sober” pill to combat excessive drunkenness
The Adelaide Herald is reporting that Australian scientists are developing a pill that helps over-indulgers in alcoholic bevvies...
City News
Jan Wong: how the rise of horticultural training at Toronto schools is bad for students
While we’re busy teaching our kids to tend school gardens, they’re failing provincial tests in reading, writing and math. The...
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Attention food science nerds: Foodpairing.com’s Bernard Lahousse brings taste into the lab in two talks this week
Chefs often speak of perfect pairings, particularly in food and wine. While most accept that certain flavour combinations just...
City News
Hogweed hits Hogtown: plant oozing blindness-causing goo spreads through Toronto
The G20 summit may be over, but now Toronto faces a new calamity in the form of hogweed, a gigantic poisonous plant that’s...
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Cellphones may be killing bees, disrupting food supply
In addition to making humans dumber , cellphones might be contributing to an ecological and culinary disaster known as...
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Culture
Splice: the drinking game
The latest entry in the Canadian horror genre, Splice, creeps into theatres Friday. In his cautionary tale about two renegade...
City News
Torontonian super-nerds bust cyber-crime ring that stole NATO plans, Dalai Lama’s e-mail
In what may be the least surprising news to make the front pages of newspapers this year, a team of University of Toronto–led...
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Beer binges barely alter test-taking ability
Pity the poor college students who, in the name of science, had to get wasted as part of a recent study to determine the effects...
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Junk food and cocaine pretty much the same thing: study
Science is perfecting the art of proving the patently obvious. A new study published in Nature Neuroscience recounts how lab rats...
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Fumes from gas stoves carcinogenic, says study
A new Norwegian study is giving new meaning to the cliché "cooking with gas." Apparently, many of us have been cooking too close...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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