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ºÚÁÏappexperts in the news: What does the switch to Daylight Saving Time do to your body and health?

March Madness in Toronto Skies: Lunar Eclipse and Saturn's Rings appear to disappear

This month, the Allan I Carswell Observatory at ºÚÁÏapp is looking forward to not one but two special celestial events. Director Elaina Hyde is available to speak to media on the significance of these events, best times and places for viewing and public viewing opportunities. The observatory also invites members of the public to join them for their Wednesday night viewing sessions.

ºÚÁÏapp grad students take the measure of Toronto’s winter urban air

Several students are participating in SWAPIT, a large winter air quality study, run by Environment and Climate Change Canada Who would imagine a bright, sunny winter day could have higher concentrations of some air pollutants than a hazy summer day? Not only is it uncommon for people to consider air quality during the coldest months […]

Lake ice becoming increasingly unsafe at start and end of winter, raising risk of drowning

Sports and recreational activities on frozen lakes across the Northern Hemisphere are a popular pastime for millions, but according to new research out of ºÚÁÏapp, the safety of that ice is becoming more precarious and shorter in duration.

Small-town American chooses ºÚÁÏappfor spirit and program offerings

York’s rising in world rankings in his favourite subjects and the campus’s positive vibe got Heath Leone to pack residence-living essentials, laptop, external drive and all, to move to the Great North  

We should all ditch the clocks, or, at the very least, Daylight Saving: ºÚÁÏappexpert

This Sunday our bodies will get a long-needed pause from the detrimental effects of Daylight Saving Time. With a vast body of research showing the various health risks associated with the springtime switch, a ºÚÁÏappexpert on biological clocks says the time is long overdue to make that pause permanent.

ºÚÁÏappU researchers develop new technique to measure previously undetected airborne PFAS

A large percentage of PFAS are not being accounted for in the air, while PFAAs have accumulated in sometimes surprising amounts over 50 years in the high Arctic.

Lake ice quality degrading as planet warms – skaters, hockey players, ice truckers on thin ice

Several studies have looked at lake ice quantity and its duration, but there is little research on the quality of the ice which directly corresponds to how safe it is to venture out on. TORONTO, Sept. 19, 2024 – Ice may look safe for a game of pick-up hockey on the lake, but as a […]

ºÚÁÏappU physicist, Newton apple-tree guardian, available for comment ahead of Gravity Day

ºÚÁÏapp’s Newton apple tree has had a storied existence, with lineage that is thought to go back to Sir Isaac Newton’s original discovery of gravity in the 1600s and the apple tree that infamously played muse to the physicist — even if the story about the apple falling on his head isn’t exactly how it really went down. 

ºÚÁÏappprofs to advance health research with more than $3.5M in federal CIHR funding

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) recently granted ºÚÁÏapp professors more than $3.5 million dollars combined, money that will go towards research that aims to help parents and neonatal infants, addresses equity and political barriers to global public health concerns and helps further our understanding the role of an important hormone in heart health.