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In 2025, Dr. Mahumm Ghaffar and Dr. Maryam Bibi, both originally from Pakistan, became the first students to earn PhDs in subatomic physics from Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN). They were also the first doctoral graduates in this field in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Researchers at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing have created a new material that can capture light and control the location of its absorption with unprecedented precision.
University of Toronto — Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics
Renée Hložek, at the University of Toronto, is deepening our understanding of the universe by exploring the fundamental nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Université de Montréal — Department of Physics
Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, at Université de Montréal, is transforming our understanding of black holes and their role in shaping the cosmos.
University of Ottawa — Department of Physics
At the University of Ottawa, Xiaoyi Bao is turning tiny threads of glass into guardians of public safety.
Can your brain attune itself to a foreign language before you’re even born?
McGill University — Department of Astronomy
Sophia Waddell is a Canadian Astrophysics student studying black holes at Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and St-Mary’s University. Waddell…
McGill University — Department of Physics
Daryl Haggard, a professor at McGill University’s Department of Physics and Trottier Space Institute, delves into the darkest depths of the cosmos, focusing on…
During Jess Speedie’s first year at university, someone told her, “We owe everything on Earth to the rotating disk of gas and dust that existed around our sun…
Stretching out a balloon is a common hack to make it easier to inflate. When the balloon stretches, the width crosswise shrinks to the size of a string. Noah…