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Hollywood physics

Grading movies on scientific accuracy

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Travelling innovation tour delivers – and discovers – inspiration across Canada

The Power of Ideas tour is winding its way across Canada to inspire the next generation of hackers, makers, doers,…
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About time: metronomes at Perimeter

The tick-tocking of 100 metronomes provided a fitting musical interlude to a conference examining the nature of time in the…
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The universe from a hologram?

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A quantum case of mind over matter?

New research proposes a way to test whether quantum entanglement is affected by consciousness.
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The Truth is in the Stars: a panel on science and creativity Wednesday, June 14, 2017 In-house movie screening (limited…
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Hollywood physics: grading movies on scientific accuracy

In space, no one can hear you nitpicking.
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Musicians turn Trappist-1 system into orbital jazz

When Canadian astrophysicists wrote a paper showing how the orbits of the newly discovered Trappist planets could be stable, a…
/May 11, 2017
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Hearing the universe’s briefest notes

CHIME, a radio telescope under construction in British Columbia, expects to find hundreds of “fast radio bursts” and generate a…
/May 10, 2017
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Do cause and effect work differently in the quantum world?

Researchers at Perimeter Institute and the Institute for Quantum Computing find quantum causality is “much richer than in the classical world.”
/May 09, 2017
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10 common misconceptions in physics

The true power of science is that it perpetually refines our understanding based on new evidence.
/Apr 26, 2017
Cosmology, Strong Gravity

The universe from a hologram?

New research proposes that the universe may have been two-dimensional at the time of the big bang.
/Apr 12, 2017
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Physics, finance, and the value of evidence

When physicist and philosopher James Weatherall came to Waterloo to present his Perimeter Public Lecture, we jumped at the chance…
/Apr 11, 2017
Cosmology, Astrophysics

Earth-sized telescope seeks “monsters in the night”

The globe-spanning Event Horizon Telescope is focussed with extreme precision at the black hole in the centre of our galaxy.
/Apr 08, 2017
Quantum Fields and Strings

String theory solution is tailor-made

Researchers cut a vexing problem into manageable shapes, and come up with a solution that could apply to all string…
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Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space: Janna Levin Public Lecture

Wednesday May 3, 2017 at 7 PM ET The live webcast will appear on this page More than a billion years…
/Apr 06, 2017
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WGSI releases new Blueprint for global energy access

The Waterloo Global Science Initiative has released the OpenAccess Energy Blueprint, which charts a course toward a future with universal…
/Apr 03, 2017
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Researchers suggest “mind-blowing” new approach to finding dark matter

New research from Perimeter suggests using black holes and gravitational waves to solve the mystery of dark matter.
/Mar 29, 2017
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Driven by curiosity: Percy Paul on the power of exploration

Physicist Percy Paul traces his scientific path from a grassy field in northern Saskatchewan to studying higher-dimensional string theory at…
/Mar 29, 2017
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Young women encouraged to follow curiosity to success in STEM

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