This week the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics in Waterloo is holding its first-ever alumni reunion with a new kind of physics conference providing a “big picture” overview of fundamental physics and its future. They’re calling it Convergence.
Read More »The Canadian Space Agency is Requesting Information for a new Space Station Life Science Research System
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) in interested in broadening Canada’s contribution to the International Space Station by potentially building a new Life Science Research System capability.
Read More »Canadian Astronauts Hansen and Saint-Jacques Celebrate National Science and Technology Week 2014
Canadian Space Agency astronauts Jeremy Hansen and David Saint-Jacques invite you to celebrate National Science and Technology Week from October 17-26, 2014.
Read More »Is the Universe a Bubble?
Never mind the big bang; in the beginning was the vacuum. The vacuum simmered with energy (variously called dark energy, vacuum energy, the inflation field, or the Higgs field). Like water in a pot, this high energy began to evaporate – bubbles formed.
Read More »MDA to Begin Building LIDAR for OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission
Today at press conference at the Royal Ontario Museum Treasury Board President Tony Clement announced that MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) will begin building the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) for the 2016 mission.
Read More »AuroraMax Observatory Captures Lunar Eclipse and Aurora Borealis
On April 15, 2014, many early morning skywatchers were treated to total eclipse of the Moon as it passed through Earth’s shadow. But few were lucky enough to see both the red Moon and the Red Planet awash in a sky full of green aurora.
Read More »Ted Talk: Chris Hadfield – What I Learned From Going Blind in Space
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield delivered a Ted Talk in Vancouver on March 17th, 2014 discussing his experiences.
Read More »The Hunt Begins for Unusual Meteorite Near St. Thomas, Ontario
Researchers from Western University are excited at the possibility of finding an unusual meteorite or meteorites, as there could be more than one, that streaked over Southern Ontario Tuesday evening and landed somewhere between 5-7 kilometers north to northwest of St. Thomas, Ontario.
Read More »The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Announces 2014 Award Recipients
The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) announced on Tuesday the 2014 Award recipients for three Award categories and the Ken Chilton Prize.
Read More »Western University Investigator Leads Team in New Brown Dwarfs Finding
Western University’s Stanimir Metchev is the principal investigator of new findings on brown dwarfs which were presented at a news conference today at the 223rd annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington.
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