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Critical Prebiotic Molecules Discovered in Interstellar Space

Using new technology at the telescope and in laboratories, researchers have discovered an important pair of prebiotic molecules in interstellar space. The discoveries indicate that some basic chemicals that are key steps on the way to life may have formed on dusty ice grains floating between the stars.

1 Mar 2013

Quantum Properties Become Invisible When Ultra Cold Bose-Einstein Condensates Tend Towards Equilibrium State

Order tends towards disorder. This is also true for quantum states. Measurements at the Vienna University of Technology show that in quantum mechanics this transition can be quite different from what we experience in our daily lives.

1 Mar 2013

UCLA Sponsors Workshop on the Higgs Boson

David Cline, a distinguished professor in the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Xiaoping Ding, an assistant researcher at UCLA, have conducted research at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York and have established that an electron beam can be accelerated by a laser in free space.

1 Mar 2013

Pulsar’s LAT Data Transformed into a Mesmerizing Movie

NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-eyed Large Area Telescope (LAT) sweeps across the entire sky every three hours, capturing the highest-energy form of light -- gamma rays -- from sources across the universe.

1 Mar 2013

NSERC Awards E.W.R Steacie Fellowship to IQC Quantum Researcher

Professor Kevin Resch is an experimental physicist working in quantum information science, in particular the development of quantum sources of light and interferometric sensors.

28 Feb 2013

Robotic Telescope Helps Spot White Dwarf Supernovae

Light from two massive stars that exploded hundreds of millions of years ago recently reached Earth, and each event was identified as a supernova.

28 Feb 2013

U of T Quantum Researchers Win NSERC Awards

University of Toronto researchers won or shared honours in six of eight prize categories in this year’s awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), presented today in Ottawa.

28 Feb 2013

Astronomers Measure Super-Fast Spin of Supermassive Black Hole

Imagine a sphere more than 2 million miles across - eight times the distance from Earth to the Moon - spinning so fast that its surface is traveling at nearly the speed of light. Such an object exists: the supermassive black hole at the center of the spiral galaxy NGC 1365.

28 Feb 2013

APS Names CQT Quantum Researcher as ‘Outstanding Referee’

CQT Research Fellow Martin Kiffner has been named an "Outstanding Referee" by the American Physical Society (APS). Starting in 2008, the society has given the award to scientists who have been "exceptionally helpful in assessing manuscripts for publication".

27 Feb 2013

Planets with Life May be Detected near Dying White Dwarf Stars

Even dying stars could host planets with life - and if such life exists, we might be able to detect it within the next decade. This encouraging result comes from a new theoretical study of Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarf stars. Researchers found that we could detect oxygen in the atmosphere of a white dwarf's planet much more easily than for an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star.

26 Feb 2013