TORONTO, Tuesday, October 10, 2017 – York University scientists will share secrets of the universe, a vast and mysterious place that pushes the boundaries of imagination, at the Faculty of Science and Toronto Public Library speaker series. The series will run from Oct. 11 to Nov. 14 with speakers talking about everything from quasars […]
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Major gift for new telescope opens Universe to York U students, wider community
TORONTO, September 14, 2017 – Ever wanted to take a closer peek at the Great Red Spot on Jupiter, Saturn’s magnificent rings or brilliant newborn stars in the Orion Nebula? A donation today of $500,000 from the Carswell Family Foundation, matched by York University and its Faculty of Science, for $1 million toward a new, […]
Media Advisory: Gift to reveal night skies to students, community
TORONTO, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 – Build it and they will come. Expected to be the largest telescope situated on any Canadian university campus, once in place, it will open the night skies for students, faculty and the wider community. Media are invited to learn more about the future new telescope, the generous gift that […]
York U expert, only Canadian on massive new international neutrino experiment, available for comment
TORONTO, Wednesday, July 19, 2017 – York University physics Professor Scott Menary is the only Canadian on an experiment, involving 30 countries and the excavation of 800,000 tons of rocks, to find out what role neutrinos played in the evolution of the Universe. The groundbreaking to build the particle detectors for the experiment will take […]
Milky Way could be home to 100 billion 'failed stars'
TORONTO, July 6, 2017 – Our galaxy could harbour some 100 billion brown dwarfs, often described as “failed stars,” reveals new research by an international team of astronomers, including York University’s Ray Jayawardhana in the Faculty of Science. Brown dwarfs are objects intermediate in mass between stars and planets, with masses too low to sustain […]
A total eclipse of the Sun – Astronomers excited for upcoming celestial spectacle
TORONTO, Monday, June 19, 2017 – The upcoming total eclipse of the Sun, on Aug. 21, is already generating excitement with York University astronomers. To witness it as a total eclipse, Canadians will have to head south to the United States, though it will be visible as a 70 per cent partial eclipse from Toronto. […]
Media Advisory: Internal time clocks more important to human health than previously thought
TORONTO, Monday, May 15, 2017 – Out of whack internal biological clocks can have dire effects on human health and have links to cardiovascular disease, cancer, metabolic disorders and mental health. Scientists will present their latest research into biological timekeeping (chronobiology) at the Canadian Society for Chronobiology conference this week at York University. The University’s […]
