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After the many years of commuting on Christmas Eve, jolly old St. Nicholas is reconsidering his home at the North Pole. Given his job description, extreme isolation has lost its appeal. In true Christmas spirit, the University of Toronto's Martin Prosperity Insititute is offering Santa a top 10 list of places that would best suit him and his needs.

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Researchers from the University of Toronto's Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics are taking the search for other worlds to a new frontier: the Canadian Arctic. Beginning in January, astronomers for the first time will use the long, dark winter in the country’s Far North to search for planets circling other stars and unravel the mysteries of such fleeting cosmic phenomena as supernovas.

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The international team of researchers that has been smashing high-energy protons together inside the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to re-create the conditions at the time of the Big Bang announced new evidence today pointing to an observation of the Higgs boson.

New research by two University of Toronto professors and a post-doctoral fellow, in collaboration with a colleague at the Ontario Cancer Institute, explains the molecular basis for cherubism, a bone development disorder, and may lead to the development of new drugs to treat cancer.

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A species of ancient predator with saw-like teeth, sleek bodies and a voracious appetite for meat survived a major extinction at a time when the distant relatives of mammals ruled the earth.