Department of Physics - University of Toronto Magazine

One of Canada’s Mightiest Computers Tackles a Very Complex Question

A U of T professor is using serious processing power to understand what role the world’s oceans play in climate change Read More

A scene of a night sky with a church and a person with a telescope

How Did the Universe Begin?

Prof. Barth Netterfield’s lifelong journey into faith, physics and astronomy Read More

Photo of Colin Arrowsmith biking along Huron Street, pulling a device.

How Much Methane?

A U of T study aims to create the most accurate estimate yet of Toronto’s greenhouse gas emissions Read More

Albert Prebus (left) and James Hillier working with the electron microscope in 1938

Seeing New Worlds

How two U of T graduate students built North America’s first working electron microscope Read More

This “Bomber” Actually Saved Countless Lives

U of T alumnus Harold Johns pioneered a new kind of cancer treatment dubbed the “cobalt bomb” Read More

Jason Harlow and Physics Practicals students.

Physics That’s Practically Fun

Students give high marks to a new kind of science lab Read More

The Universe in a Lab

Physics undergrad Aysha Abdel-Aziz is making her own unique contribution to a massive international research project Read More

Life on Mars?

Scientists are trying to determine if methane in the Martian atmosphere came from living organisms Read More

Iciclology 101

Most icicles have the same carrot shape. But differences in temperature, wind conditions and water composition affect their final form Read More

Smashing!

Now that the Large Hadron Collider is working, U of T physicists are preparing to sift through mountains of data in search of the elusive Higgs boson Read More

The True Nature of Time

A century after Einstein proposed his theory of relativity, scientists are still debating how time works Read More

Cool Computing

A new kind of optical switch could allow computers to run 100 times faster - without overheating Read More

Big Blue

U of T and IBM are assembling Canada's most powerful supercomputer Read More

This spring, an international team of physicists, including several from U of T, will launch the most ambitious science experiment ever devised. Their goal: to unlock the secrets of the universe Read More

Something in the Air

An international research team has found traces of phosgene in the atmosphere Read More

Oceans on Mars

Ridges on the red planet might have been shorelines Read More

Foiled Again

Prof develops quantum cryptography method that could improve Internet security Read More

The Iceberg Cometh

Ocean tides dislodged huge Arctic icebergs, contributing to climate cooling thousands of years ago Read More