Coast Guard’s New Tech Protects Whales
Radar and real-time vessel tracking technology are proving useful tools in an intensified effort to protect British Columbia’s southern resident killer whales from the dangers of vessel strikes, entanglements and marine traffic. The...Read More
Hyperloop May Prove Too Big A Deal For Canada
2020 witnessed high-speed ground level transportation history in the making when humans for the first time ever travelled at airline speeds in a hyperloop pod across a half-kilometre stretch of Nevada terrain. Success meant that the Virgi...Read More
Glider May Be The Key To Right Whale Survival
An underwater acoustic glider has proven to be successful at detecting the presence of North Atlantic right whales migrating to and from Canadian waters. The technology, which was developed by the University of New Brunswick in associatio...Read More
Light Source Synchrotron To Upgrade To 2.0
More than 3,000 experiments have been completed at the Canadian Light Source synchrotron in Saskatoon – experiments that are helping scientists develop everything from cancer treatments to new processes in geology and biochemistry. ...Read More
Vegas Dave Offloads Sports Card For Millions
Controversial sports handicapper Dave Oancea, aka Vegas Dave, has just sold the most valuable baseball card ever offloaded. For nearly $4 million. The often-criticized handicapper managed to pull off the incredible stunt during a recent ...Read More
Bill Nye Uses Science To Disqualify Racism
Bill Nye says since colour is a thing only skin-deep, we had better start treating one another as equals. And yes, it’s the same Bill Nye you’re thinking of. The only Bill Nye. The Bill Nye who knows everything there is to kno...Read More
MLBPA Proposes Extended Season Finish
The Players Association (MLBPA) on Sunday rejected the league’s proposal involving players taking additional pay cuts necessitated by an extended period of inactivity that resulted from worldwide public health concerns. Instead, th...Read More
Bettman Reveals NHL Season Finale Format
The NHL’s Gary Bettman has reached an agreement with the Players’ Association (NHLPA) regarding the way forward for a possible season finale. The format will involve a 24-team playoff specifically designed so as to lead up to...Read More
MLB Considering A Spring Training Return
is feverishly trying to suss out ways in which the 2020 season can take place given bans on air travel and large gatherings. One idea that seems to be sticking somewhat more effectively than most others is the idea of playing in spring t...Read More
CFL Talks About Season, Grey Cup Changes
The (CFL), not unlike the majority of leagues the world over, is eager to the point of desperate to salvage as much of the remainder of the current season as possible. CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie in an official statement sent to seas...Read More
Jay Bouwmeester On The Mend Says Blues Cap
When St. Louis Blues defenseman Jay Bouwmeester collapsed on the bench early in February during a game against the Anaheim Ducks, many feared for the worst. But according to Blues captain Alex Pietrangelo, Bouwmeester appears to be out of...Read More
Woodbine Makes Changes Following Covid-19
Some 37 cases of the have now been reported and confirmed in Ontario, with at least one of those cases in Sudbury. And so, following growing concerns about the spread and impact of the virus on the province and its people, Woodbine Entert...Read More
BC Telescope Provides Insight Into FRBs
Trying to figure out the exact nature of what they are and where they originate from is not all that different to a celestial game of Clue. Astrophysicists all around the world have been playing a cosmic game of cat and mouse ever since f...Read More
Malindi Elmore May Be Headed For Tokyo
B.C. native Malindi Elmore made her Olympic debut some 16 years ago. The year was 2004 and Elmore had qualified to run the 1,500 at the Olympic Games that was hosted by the city of Athens that year. But Elmore missed qualifying for the se...Read More
4 Rovers Set for 2020 Mars Missions
For many of us, the imminent arrival of 2020 meant one thing and one thing only: getting to fly around in inner city space in our very own flying car. Complete with UFO-style sunroof of course. This was what had been p...Read More
Music Bringing Coral Reefs Back to Life
Underwater speakers are being used to nurse the Great Barrier Reef back to healthy life. As marine biologist Tim Gordon explained, the bustling noise of a functional reef is essential to attract more life. In turn, thi...Read More
New App Leverages Indigenous Inuit Knowledge
As apps become more commonplace it is time, in the words of Nunavut elder and former MLA Peter Kattuk, for “the harpoon and the computer to work together”. The late hunter, who also previously served as Sanikiluaq...Read More
Indigenous Tribe Turns Solar Into Success
The members of a small BC First Nations community are “doing it for themselves”. Members of the Yunesit’in community just to the west of Williams Lake in the region of Chilcotin, BC, have set in motion the making...Read More
Canadian Football League Faces Off-Season Challenges
It’s that time of the year again: the Canadian Football League off-season. A time when nothing and everything of significance happens all at once. The current off-season poses a number of interesting challenges and s...Read More
Communities Are Choosing Greener Energy
There’s nothing quite like those icy Canadian winter months to cultivate anew a precious appreciation for any conceivable device able to generate heat. Heaters and furnaces and boilers become our new best friends, eq...Read More
Kombucha’s Health Benefits Applauded
What’s in a name really? A whole lot of confusion apparently, especially when that name is kombucha. The problem with the fermented tea beverage and the cause of all the confusion is that the name of the tea, when tr...Read More
Science On Music Being A Universal Language
You don’t have to speak German to enjoy a composition by Schumann. This seems reasonable. But to claim that music is indeed a universal language understood across divisions by culture and race and creed is a weighted...Read More
Blue Light Paranoia May Be Exactly That
The eye-experts have spoken and its official: there’s no actual science-based evidence suggesting that the blue light radiated by digital screens is actually harmful to our eyes. In fact, according to ophthalmology e...Read More
Canadian Pharmacist Wins Prestigious Award
Canada has long been one of the nations at the forefront of the world’s scientific discoveries and advancements. Most recently, a local pharmacist has been honoured with a prestigious international award for his effo...Read More
Project Understood Improves Google Accessibility
By 2020, 50% of all Internet searches are expected to be undertaken with voice commands alone. To date an estimated 52 million Google Home devices have been sold but just 4 years from now, in 2023, it’s expected that...Read More
Sabre-Toothed Cat May Have Trudged Canadian Soil
A recent find by young scientists associated with the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum indicates the existence of a very special pre-historic cat in the region residents of Alberta now call home. The ...Read More
NASA And ESA Want To Nudge An Asteroid
A “planetary defence” mission is no longer a thing of Star Trek fiction. Planet Earth last year only just barely escaped a disastrous encounter with an asteroid the size of a football field. Had an actual near miss...Read More
Mattress Mack MLB Bet May Be Biggest Ever
So convinced is Houston businessman and owner of the Gallery Furniture chain Jim McIngvale that the Houston Astros will this year perform a repeat stunt of their 2017 MLB World Series Win, that he has wagered what may ...Read More
War On Climate Change Is A Losing Battle
The war on climate change is in many ways a war on self. Instead of fighting some external enemy, combatting climate change requires a change of lifestyle; a challenge that has proved itself to be exponentially more da...Read More
Edmonton’s TELUS World Of Science To Expand
Edmonton’s TELUS World of Science will soon be in a position to offer even more to its visitors thanks to funding allocated to the centre by Canada’s federal government. The funding is earmarked for expansion and a...Read More
CA Pledges $15M To Amazon Fire Fight
Raging fires are ripping through South America’s Amazon forests and, says Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, it would be completely unrealistic of anyone to assume that this particular occurrence is exclusively ...Read More
Playtech Breaks Wimbledon Bets Record
Fansof tennis the world over weren’t the only ones revelling in the theatre of sports that was the epic Wimbledon finale between the legend that is Roger Federer and the 2019 men’s final winner, namely Novak Djokov...Read More
DeBues-Stafford Shatters 34-Year Record
Canadian track and field champion Gabriela DeBues-Stafford isn’t only super fast out of the staring blocks, but she also has what it takes to keep up the pace, and for all of 1,500 metres to boot. The athlete recentl...Read More
Interactive eSports Experience A First
The worlds of gaming and music are connected by an entire sub-sector of mutual fans. And its this passionately shared interest that has sparked a brand new interactive cross-activity collaboration that is being driven by a partnership bet...Read More
Local Tech-Corp May Win The Hyperloop Race
Hyperloop technology has been a hot but also very controversial topic of debate for quite some time. Tech-companies have been running the race with vigour, hoping to be the first to come up with the technology needed t...Read More
MLS Gets Approval For NS Rocket-Launch Site
Nova Scotia may be Canada’s second-smallest province, but it’s also the planned location for the construction of a new rocket-launching facility near Canso. Now that Maritime Launch Services (MLS) has obtained the ...Read More
Science Says Beware The Neuro-Wearable
Use with caution. Such is the nature of the message preached by neuroscientists following a broad-based overview of some of the wildly fantastic claims made by the manufacturers of wearable “neuro-devices”. Neuro...Read More
Blue Jays Unhappy About Victoria Day
To say that Blue Jays fans took a benched Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on Victoria Day in their stride would be a complete lie. In fact, quite the opposite had ended up playing itself out. A scheduled rest day certainly wasn...Read More
Canada Spends $1.14M On Garbage Shipment
69 containers of rotting garbage, some of them more than 5 years old, will be brought back to Canada from the Philippines at a cost of no less than $1.14 million – and Canada is paying for it. The trash has been a co...Read More
Raptor Kawhi Leonard Beats The Game 7 Buzzer
Wise old folk often say that too much of a good thing is no longer any good. We’re taking the liberty of adding: unless your name is Kawhi Leonard. The Toronto Raptors forward recently proved that the legacy of the f...Read More
Toronto’s Travis Dermott Out For 6 Months
Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Travis Dermott is headed towards a 6-months no-play break as a result of his having had to undergo surgery to his shoulder. What this means is that the defenseman will not be available to play until at least...Read More
Toronto’s Travis Dermott Out For 6 Months
Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Travis Dermott is headed towards a 6-months no-play break as a result of his having had to undergo surgery to his shoulder. What this means is that the defenseman will not be available to...Read More
TOR Scientist Wins Gerhard Herzberg Award
The discovery and study of what is referred to as ancient Earth water may seem perplexing to some, but the world of science knows full well that understanding our own planet’s oldest resources is only way to unlockin...Read More
Trump Puts A Damper On Canadian Space Dream
When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on 28 February that Canada was about to go to the moon thanks to its involvement with NASA’s Lunar Gateway Project, many people celebrated what they deemed to be ...Read More
Minister Outraged By Caster Semenya’s CAS Ruling
Canada’s Minister of Sport and Science has lashed out at a controversial decision made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport regarding South African runner and athlete Caster Semenya. The court has denied an appeal l...Read More
Big Bang Molecule Finally Proven To Exist
Ever since the theory of the natural existence of the molecule thought to have been formed in the immediate aftermath of the Big Bang was formulated in the early 70’s, scientists have been searching for signs of a na...Read More
Canada’s Role In The Event Horizon Telescope
The world is abuzz with electric excitement after science finally managed to capture the very first image of an actual black hole. Due to the nature of the gravitational force contained by a black hole, literally anyth...Read More
Runners plunged into darkness
For professional track athletes, a successful career is all about utilising every ounce of ability. That in turn means staying alive to the latest training developments. So how might any runner feel about training thei...Read More
The Truth About Bioplastics
A Vancouver-based expert on plastics is vying for greater public education about the different kinds of plastics on the market following Ottawa’s recently revealed plans to eliminate all single-use plastic in its governmental operations. ...Read More
Study Reveals Brain’s Risk-Taking Center
Experiments performed on two monkeys have helped scientists to pinpoint a small part of the brain that plays a crucial role in decision-making processes. The area could also be responsible for the control of risk-ta...Read More
