Experimental physicists growing icicles at the University of Toronto are closer to understanding why some form with ripples up and down their outsides, while others form with smooth, slick, even surfaces.

Adjunct Professor and ECCC Research Scientist Ray Nassar has written an article for “The Conversation” in which he provides insights about how tracking carbon dioxide emissions from space can support climate agreements.

Scientists across Canada will be able to better predict and mitigate extreme weather events in the face of climate change thanks to a new satellite mission that’s received more than $200 million in federal funding.

Students from the Department of Physics participated in the Pueblo Science Hackathon for Science Education on September 23-25, 2022.

Researchers at the University of Toronto have identified the mechanism responsible for the formation of temperature and salinity “staircases” in the Arctic Ocean, resolving a mystery that has confounded oceanographers and climatologists alike for more than half a century. Understanding how these vertical structures work promises to shed more light on the causes and consequences of rapid Arctic sea ice loss amid climate change.

For a week in August, the University of Toronto became the quantum research capital of the world.

Kimberly Strong, chair of the Faculty of Arts & Science’s Department of Physics and a leading authority in global atmospheric research, has received the prestigious 2022 Willet G. Miller Medal from the Royal Society of Canada.

Matthew Russo of Physics explains his work on a NASA project to CBC's As it Happens.

In 2012, physicists made headline news around the world with the discovery of the Higgs boson, a lynchpin in the standard model of particle physics, the theory describing all matter and forces in the universe. The breakthrough was long-sought confirmation of the theory explaining why some particles have mass and others do not.

For their achievements in disciplines reflecting the depth and diversity of the Faculty of Arts & Science, five researchers and scholars have been named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).

Professor Miriam Diamond quoted in the Globe and Mail

August 3-5, 2022

Try gunwale bobbing: U of T study

Tiny Gatekeepers of the Nano Universe: How Nuclear Pores in our Cells Separate Friend From Foe

August 2-4, 2022 2:00 pm–6:00 pm

A new interdisciplinary program is inspiring the next generation of researchers and entrepreneurs.

Professor Pierre Savard discusses the ATLAS detector in the Globe and Mail

Kimberly Strong, chair of the Department of Physics and a leading authority in global atmospheric research, has been awarded the 2021 Patterson Distinguished Service Medal by the Meteorological Service of Canada.

On Saturday, June 4, 2022 a symposium was held in memory of Professor David J. Rowe who passed away in May 2020.

How Geology and Urbanization Affect Water Quality in Southern Ontario

A group of undergraduate students worked on a research project to look at the effects of COVID-19 on UofT’s physics community.