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Today's episode of Innovations with Ed Begley, Jr., on the Discovery Channel featured the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC).

The episode focused on research happening at IQC; explaining how it harnesses the quantum laws of nature in order to develop powerful new technologies and drive future economies. To help audiences understand how quantum mechanics will lead to a new set of technologies that will become an economic driver for the 21st century, the segment shows researchers exploring the deepest questions about quantum.

For the first time, a researcher at the University of Waterloo has theoretically demonstrated that it is possible to detect a single nuclear spin at room temperature, which could pave the way for new approaches to medical diagnostics.

A $1.6-million gift to the University of Waterloo and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology by The Gerald Schwartz & Heather Reisman Foundation is enabling world-changing research in a range of disciplines, including lung diseases and quantum computing.

WATERLOO, Ont. (Friday, April 24, 2015) —The falling apples of Newtonian physics to the amazing and counterintuitive phenomena of the quantum realm will take centre stage when the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (KWS) and the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) present their innovative musical experiment next month.

Research in the field of Relativistic Quantum Information (RQI) brings together the two pillars of modern physics: quantum theory and general relativity. RQI research is yielding results ranging from new insights into the laws of nature to concrete applications in quantum computing and quantum communications.

Contrary to the statistician's slogan, in the quantum world, certain kinds of correlations do imply causation.

The National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced its support this morning for the expansion and proposal of scientific outreach programs at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC).

IQC Research Assistant Professor Eduardo Martin-Martinez, in collaboration with PhD student Robert Jonsson and Professor Achim Kempf, both of the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo, have found a possible communication channel that does not require energy transmission from the sender to the receiver, but instead requires only the receiver to spend energy to run its detector, similar to a collect call.

The Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony is proud to confirm that the orchestra will be taking part in the Ontario Scene Festival in Ottawa this spring to perform the critically acclaimed Quantum: Music at the Frontier of Science. Led by KWS Music Director Edwin Outwater, this exploration of the connection between music and science will be performed in Ottawa on May 3, 2015.

Senior representatives from the CSA and industrial partners witnessed a successful laboratory demonstration.

On January 29, 2015, a team led by Professor Thomas Jennewein at the University of Waterloo’s Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) completed a successful laboratory demonstration of a form, fit and function prototype of a Quantum Key Distribution Receiver (QKDR) suitable for airborne experiments and ultimately Earth orbiting satellite missions. The team designed and built the QKDR under a $600,000 contract from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).