Engineers Design and Test a New Class of Solar-Sensitive Nanoparticles
University of Toronto researchers have designed and tested a new form of solid, stable light-sensitive nanoparticles that could lead to cheaper and more flexible solar…
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Physicists Measure Photons in an Entangled NOON State
Physicists from the University of Toronto have successfully measured multiple photons in an entangled NOON state, overcoming a major challenge in the science of measurement…
Quantum Simulator Reveals Clues about How Ultracold Atoms Interact
Using a vacuum system that isolates ultracold atoms from room temperature and pressure, scientists reveal new clues about how ultracold atoms interact. Assembling the puzzles…
Engineers Demonstrate Active Electromagnetic Cloaking
By surrounding an object with small antennas that collectively radiate an electromagnetic field, engineers demonstrate active electromagnetic cloaking. Invisibility cloaking is no longer the stuff…
Scientists Develop a New Way to Kill Cancer Cells
By targeting mitochondria with the anticancer drug cisplatin, chemists have developed a new way to kill cancer cells that have shown resistance to cisplatin. Cisplatin…
Billion Year Old Water Could Hold Clues to Life
Researchers from the universities of Manchester, Lancaster, Toronto and McMaster have discovered ancient pockets of water rich in dissolved gases like hydrogen and methane pouring…
World’s Oldest Dinosaur Bonebed Reveals How Dinosaur Embryos Grew and Developed
An international team of scientists excavated and analyzed over 200 bones from dinosaurs at different stages of embryonic development from a 190-million-year-old dinosaur bonebed, revealing…
Herschel Data Reveals Clues About High-Mass Star Formation
In a new study, scientists use Herschel data to view a giant cloud of gas and dust called Westerhout 3 and to study the early…
Researchers Observed the Atmosphere of a Jupiter-Like Planet Beyond Our Solar System
Using a high resolution imaging spectrograph, researchers have observed the atmosphere of a Jupiter like planet beyond our Solar System in unprecedented detail, uncovering the…
Oldest Dinosaur Nesting Site Discovered
Clutches of eggs and tiny dinosaur footprints found at a recently unearthed excavation site reveal that dinosaurs may have remained at their nesting site for…
500 Million Year Old Tulip-Shaped Creature Discovered
Fossils found in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies reveal a strange creature with a tulip shape. This ocean animal, officially named Siphusauctum…
