Press Releases  View archived Perimeter Institute press
releases.   Friday Feb 15, 2013  A quasicrystal is an exotic
state of matter with symmetries once thought to be impossible
for matter. The concept was first introduced and the first
examples were synthesized in the laboratory thirty years ago,
but could Nature have beaten us to the punch?  Wednesday Jan 16,
2013  How is a worldwide community of scientists using 16
kilometres of wide vacuum tubes to catch “ripples of space-
time”? In an entirely new means of cosmic exploration,
researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave
Observatory (LIGO) Scientific Collaboration are trying to detect
gravitational waves – a phenomenon theorized by Einstein almost
a century ago. But what will this new window to the universe
mean?  Monday Nov 19, 2012  Curiosity is often said to drive
science, but until the seventeenth century – the age of the so-
called Scientific Revolution – it was regarded with suspicion
and condemnation. What happened to liberate curiosit