Girls in Physics Day

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 09:30to16:30

Do you ever wonder how cutting edge research is being carried out?  Or what the daily life of a physicists is like? Or maybe you just find science really cool and fascinating....

March Break: Particle Physics Masterclass

Wednesday, March 6, 2019 10:00to17:00

Looking for something different to do this March Break?3600 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T8, CA/scienceCategory: Dept. of Physics Faculty of Science

Latest gravitational-wave detection opens new era for astronomy

Published: 16 October 2017

The discovery of a gravitational wave caused by the merger of two neutron stars, reported today by a collaboration of scientists from around the world, opens a new era in astronomy. It marks the...

Nobel Prize in Physics goes to gravitational wave scientists

Published: 3 October 2017

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 was divided, one half awarded to Rainer Weiss, the other half jointly to Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne "for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the...

Is 'Back to the Future' scientifically possible?

Published: 21 October 2015

It’s 'Back to the Future' day: “In Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly travels to October 21, 2015, to save his children, yet to be born in Back to the Future's 1985.” (Source: CNN)...

Study reveals challenge for chip designers of future

Published: 6 November 2012

To build the computer chips of the future, designers will need to understand how an electrical charge behaves when it is confined to metal wires only a few atom-widths in diameter.

Clerk, Pai named to RSC’s College of New Scholars

Published: 16 September 2014

McGill University physicist Aashish Clerk and epidemiologist Madhukar Pai are among the inaugural members named today to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

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