I wrote this for the Lifestyles 55+ magazine I contribute to each month in Winnipeg for their August edition, but I hope it will be of some interest to readers in our catchment area. I don’t usually … [+3662 chars]
Scotty the world’s largest T.rex at the T. rex Discovery Centre (TRDC) is getting a new friend a Tylosaur. Located in Eastend, Sask. the centre is putting finishing touches on the new Tylosaur exhib… [+2269 chars]
Coral reefs are home to a spectacular variety of fish. A new study by biologists at the University of California, Davis shows that much of this diversity is driven by a relatively recent innovation a… [+3446 chars]
When a daring team of engineers put a lander and the first rover on the Red Planet a quarter century ago, they changed how the world explores. On a July evening in 1997, Jennifer Trosper drove home … [+6161 chars]
Extreme rainfall as a driver of volcanic hazards. (a) Pleistocene volcanic sector collapses of Volcán de Colima, Nevado de Toluca, Citlaltépetl and Cofre de Perote (Mexico), reproduced after Capra et… [+4144 chars]
Any movement beneath our feetfrom barely perceptible subsidence to the sudden appearance of a sinkhole or a crashing landslidespells big trouble. Even relatively modest subsidence can weaken building… [+5404 chars]
A team of scientists will soon head to the Aleutian Islands aboard the research vessel Sikuliaq on a voyage to reconstruct the region's ancient history of powerful storms. Little is known about the … [+4302 chars]
A Chinese cargo spacecraft that serviced the country's permanent orbiting space station has largely burned up on reentering the atmosphere, amid separate concerns over China's decision to allow a mas… [+2893 chars]
The manipulation and use of gas in water have broad applications in energy utilization, chemical manufacturing, environmental protection, agricultural breeding, microfluidic chips, and health care. T… [+7929 chars]
Noctilucent clouds are rare high-altitude clouds that can only be seen under specific conditions. They appear during the summer months, after sunset, as thin wispy blue/silver streaks 'dancing' acros… [+10841 chars]
For palaeontologists this is a discovery far better than striking gold: miners working in The Yukon in northwestern Canada have uncovered a frozen baby mammoth while excavating permafrost. The anima… [+1840 chars]
By combining atomic force probes with microfluidics, this research proposes a method of "localized electrodeposition micro-additive manufacturing of atomic force servo pulse microjets". Following wit… [+5292 chars]
