Science

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) announced on Tuesday the 2014 Award recipients for three Award categories and the Ken Chilton Prize.

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.