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New invisibility cloaks that make objects disappear at various frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum, are continuously coming to light. The new achievement is the creation of Greek researcher, George Eleftheriades, professor at the University of Toronto.  Eleftheriades designed and...

The first electronic ID identifying the owner or user of a device by measuring their heartbeats via fingertips is not a sci-fi technology of the future but rather the product of the joint work of Dr. Foteini Agrafioti and...

The largest-ever analysis of genetic data related to type 1 diabetes has uncovered new genes associated with the common metabolic disease, which affects 200 million people worldwide. The findings of the genome-wide association study (GWAS), conducted by Hakon Hakonarson collaborated...

Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have published evidence that the orphan generic drug Dichloroacetate (DCA) might be a potential therapy for perhaps the deadliest of all human cancers: a form of brain cancer called glioblastoma. The report was...

It may sound unbelievable but a Greek-Canadian scientist is stating that the Ancient Greeks may have reached America years before the Spanish Seafarer Columbus did. Researcher of Aegean Scripts, Dr. Minas Tsikritsis, in the text by Plutarch “On the Apparent Face...

Juan de Fuca, or Ioannis Phokas, was an intrepid, and much underappreciated, Greek explorer and navigator who lived during the sixteenth century. De Fuca is best known for being the first to describe the Strait of Anian, which is...

The rich history of the Greeks in Canada is being cataloged and digitized at York University by the Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF). The HHF Greek Canadian Archives (HHF GCA) announced recently a series of significant milestones in its ongoing mission...

Dr. Peter Metrakos is a Greek doctor working on improving survival rates of cancer patients by using breakthrough artificial intelligence (AI) technology. 

Hundreds of rare photographs and documents relating to the Greek immigrant experience in Canada have been collected by a small group of researchers at the University of York in Toronto. The Greek-Canadian History Project (GCHP), led by Dr. Sakis Gekas...

The Hellenic Heritage Foundation (HHF) held their member's networking event and lecture at the historic Papermill Theatre at Todmorden Mills of Toronto, Ontario. Over 100 people attended last week's lecture, which also launched an inaugural conference on Greek Canadian Studies. Together...

  Greek explorer Ioannis Phokas (Greek: Ἰωάννης Φωκᾶς) better known by his Spanish name, Juan de Fuca, is to be honored with a statue in Vancouver -- despite previous claims he never existed at all. Born in 1536 on the Greek Ionian...

The Greek America Foundation has opened nominations for their Class of 2018 Forty Under 40, the leading recognition for North Americans of Greek descent, 40 years old and under. Previous winners have included leading medical researchers, professors, Emmy-Award winning directors...

Greek professor in Canada's Alberta medical university, Dr. Evangelos Michelakis is co-leading a study introducing a novel drug which shows promising results targeting mitochondria to fight Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH), a debilitating disease of the lung blood vessels that...

Greek physicist Asimina Arvanitaki, who is considered as one of the top up-and-coming researchers in the world, specifically in the field of Theoretical Physics, was named the inaugural Stavros Niarchos Foundation Aristarchus Chair in Theoretical Physics at the Waterloo, Ontario based...

The Greek Canadian History Project (GCHP) is an initiative designed and committed to identifying, acquiring, digitizing, preserving, and providing access to primary source materials which reflect the experiences of Canada’s Greek immigrants and their descendants. The collected sources, currently...