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McGill University researchers announced yesterday that a Canadian-led team of scientists has found a second repeating fast radio burst (FRB).
Read More »The Chime Telescope Does it Again
Perimeter Institute – Jocelyn Bell Burnell: The Discovery of Pulsars
Jocelyn Bell Burnell is the winner of the 2018 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics and recently spoke at a special talk at the Perimeter Institute about her 1967 discovery of pulsars and her career.
Read More »Perimeter Institute – Artificial Intelligence and the Complexity Frontier
In this lecture at the Perimeter Institute, Roger Melko, Associate Faculty, Perimeter Institute and University of Waterloo, “explored how computers have helped humanity solve increasingly complex puzzles, and ask which challenges, if any, only human intuition is equipped to tackle in the age of artificial intelligence.”
Read More »Perimeter Institute – Neil Turok Lecture: We Are Innovators
In this lecture at the Perimeter Institute, Director Neil Turok “explores a universe of ideas and shares his optimism about the positive power of human ingenuity.”
Read More »Perimeter Institute – Emily Levesque Lecture: The Weirdest Stars in the Universe
Emily Levesque is an astronomer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington. She is known for her work on massive stars and using these stars to investigate galaxy formation.
Read More »TRAPPIST-1 Is Another Exciting Star System as We Hunt for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds
Today NASA announced another exciting find in its quest to find exoplanets and habitable worlds. TRAPPIST-1 is an ultracool dwarf star 40 light-years from space and today astronomers announced the discovery of seven Earth-sized planets, three of which are in the star’s habitable zone and could host oceans of surface water.
Read More »Short Cuts: exactEarth First Year Results in, UrtheCast Takes the Next Step in Bid to Build Satellite Constellation and More
In this weeks Short Cuts, Canada funds an instrument which will be key in conducting first-ever global survey of Earth’s surface water, exactEarth announces the results of its first year of operations as a public company, UrtheCast signs binding agreement with a government customer to buy two satellites in its OptiSAR constellation and more.
Read More »A Research Team led by the Perimeter Institute Has Demonstrated a New Method to Test General Relativity Using Black Holes
The Perimeter Institute published today that a team led by the Institute’s Tim Johannsen along with the University of Waterloo have demonstrated a new method for testing the theory of general relativity using black holes.
Read More »Natalie Panek – Inspiring Future Women in Science
On Friday, April 15, 2016 the Perimeter Institute hosted a half day conference on with the theme Inspiring Future Women in Science. One of those speakers was Natalie Panek, a Mission Systems Engineer from MDA Robotics.
Read More »Nobel Prize Physics Winner Art MacDonald Public Lecture
On April 13th, Dr. Art McDonald of Queens University was the guest public lecturer at the Perimeter Institute.
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