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Two UCalgary professors named as Fellows of the American Geophysical Union

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Funding helps students explore ongoing mysteries of STEVE

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AuroraMAX camera launches for dramatic season of northern lights

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In the News: Physics World

Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs of the year for 2023 (ALPHA Collaboration: Tim Friesen, Chukman So, Rob Thompson et al)

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PhD student maps Milky Way’s magnetic field for first time

quantum communication

UCalgary to provide hands-on quantum computing opportunities with Xanadu, a global leader in quantum computing

Depiction of gravity

In the News: The Independent

One of world’s greatest physics mysteries finally decoded (Robert Thompson, Timothy Friesen)

TRIUMF physicist makes an adjustment to the Radial Time Projection Chamber, a position-sensitive particle detector surrounding the antihydrogen trap.

Does antimatter fall up or down? UCalgary physicists observe 1st gravitational free-fall of antimatter

Timothy Friesen and UCalgary PhD student Adam Powell install a charged particle trap for making antihydrogen atoms into the ALPHA-g apparatus at CERN.

How one UCalgary physicist is trying to solve the universe’s great quantum mystery

Cillian Murphy as Oppenheimer

‘Oppenheimer’ beautiful in its ambiguity