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An international team led by University of Toronto physicists has developed a simple new technique to induce high-temperature superconductivity in a semiconductor for the first time - using Scotch Tape.

The method paves the way for new devices that could be used in quantum computing and to improve energy efficiency.

“Who would have thought simply sticking things together can generate entirely new effects?” said team leader and U of T physicist Ken Burch.

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Researchers at the University of Toronto have demonstrated that theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg was too pessimistic in 1927 when formulating his famous uncertainty principle.

The Heisenberg uncertainty principle is one of the cornerstones of quantum mechanics.  In its most familiar form, it says that it is impossible to measure anything without disturbing it. For instance, any attempt to measure a particle's position must randomly change its speed.

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They scrawled on each other’s shirts for Graffiti Night, cheered on the Varsity Blues football team, braved late-night “ghost tours” of the downtown campus, took part in a charity busker festival and visited Hart House Farm.  

Welcome to Orientation Week 2012 – the culmination of months of hard work by students and staff at the University of Toronto.

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With the opening of its expansion, the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management begins a new era this month which will enable it to continue to expand its programs and faculty and increase its international profile.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s magazine, Technology Review, has named Assistant Professor Joyce Poon one of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35.

The electrical and computing engineering professor is one of this year’s “TR35”. Selected by a panel of expert judges and the editorial staff of Technology Review, the TR35 recognizes young researchers who are tackling important problems in transformative ways and opening up new possibilities in technology.