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From Problems To Possibilities – Canadian Innovation Week 2021

Canadian Innovation Week recognizes Canadian achievements and inspires the next generation of innovators. The...

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Artificial intelligence teaches itself to solve quantum challenges

Rather than battle it out to obsolescence, new research shows how quantum and classical...

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The Promise, and Pitfalls, of Virtual Reality

Perimeter talks with virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier about “fashionable” science, the problems with...

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Unveiling the Turbulent Times of a Dying Star

Running sophisticated simulations on a powerful supercomputer, an international research team has glimpsed the...

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The Black Hole at the Birth of the Universe

Our universe may have emerged from a black hole in a higher-dimensional universe, proposed...

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Perimeter cosmologists propose new form of “dynamical” crystals

Latham Boyle wanted to enhance a proposed gravitational wave detector. Instead, he and Kendrick...

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Could Black Holes Have Hair?

Perimeter researchers try to find out how far one can tweak general relativity and...

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Big Bang – Or Big Bounce?

A new model of quantum cosmology shows how this universe might have been born...

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In Search of a Common Language

How physics is breaking down communication barriers between specialties, and hoping to make big...

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