Tiny bubbles that make icicles hazy are filled with water, not air
Like tree rings, layers of water pockets also preserve a record of an icicle’s growth

Strange Quantum Fluids Feel the Strain

Solving the Mystery of Dark Matter
Professors Diamond and Hong's Dark Matter Group Featured in Compute Ontario's Annual Report

Professor Hoi-Kwong Lo has been awarded the 2022 CAP-INO Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Applied Photonics
This medal recognizes Hoi-Kwong's outstanding impact on the field of Quantum communication in terms of practical implementations, laying the groundwork for commercial products for the Quantum internet. Dr Lo is a researcher of truly international caliber, with large impact at the forefront of quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution (QKD) physics.

NASA launches mission to measure Earth’s surface water – with help from Canada
Professor Kaley Walker of Physics explains an upcoming research effort she and Professor Nicolas Grisouard help lead.

Prof. Kaley Walker is among the recipients of the new Dean’s Research Excellence Award
The Faculty of Arts & Science has created a new award to recognize mid-career faculty members whose research achievements have been cited as especially noteworthy.

A more profound appreciation for the complexity of natural ice formations’: Researchers unlock cause of ripples on icicles
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.

Tracking carbon dioxide emissions from space could help support climate agreements
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.

Connaught Fund McLean Award-winner David Curtin’s research spans the subatomic to the cosmic

National climate science satellite mission co-led by U of T secures more than $200 million
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.

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

Researchers identify mechanism responsible for temperature and salinity 'staircases' in Arctic Ocean
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.

Quantum information conference brings together experts on technologies shaping the future
For a week in August, the University of Toronto became the quantum research capital of the world.

Professor Kimberly Strong receives the Royal Society of Canada’s Willet G. Miller Medal
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.

The ‘sonification’ of structures in the universe
Matthew Russo of Physics explains his work on a NASA project to CBC's As it Happens.

Summer Abroad students probe the subatomic universe at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics lab
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.

Professor Yong-Baek Kim among Arts & Science scholars named Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
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).

Dark matter hunt and ocean monitoring top list for Ottawa’s $628-million science funding boost
Professor Miriam Diamond quoted in the Globe and Mail

SuperCDMS (Cryogenic Dark Matter Search) Experiment Meeting
August 3-5, 2022

Up a creek without a paddle?
Try gunwale bobbing: U of T study

UCL & University of Toronto: Joint workshop on Physics of Biological Assemblies
August 2-4, 2022
2:00 pm–6:00 pm

Science Straight Up featuring Prof. Anton Zilman
Tiny Gatekeepers of the Nano Universe: How Nuclear Pores in our Cells Separate Friend From Foe

INSPIRE Scholars Drug Discovery Program Celebrates Summer Launch
A new interdisciplinary program is inspiring the next generation of researchers and entrepreneurs.

27th International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP 2022)

The Hunt is on for New Breakthroughs in Physics
Professor Pierre Savard discusses the ATLAS detector in the Globe and Mail
