Voyage to Pandora: First Interstellar Space Flight April 19, 2012 Found this interesting video on YouTube. If you like science, space and our possible future, please enjoy! Pandora is the idyllic blue world featured…
Canadian Aviation and Space Museum, no more… September 21, 2011 TORONTO – Second World War pilot Philip Gray says it is “immoral” that Downsview Park is evicting the Canadian Air and Space Museum. “This is a…
Super 8 and awesome I hope? May 12, 2011 I have been patiently anticipating the release of Super 8. I still have absolutely no idea what the movie is actually about. Is it…
The deadly asbestos trade October 27, 2008 Asbestos is a mineral with long, thin fibrous crystals. The word asbestos (῾ἀσβεστος) is derived from a Greek adjective meaning inextinguishable. The Greeks termed…
Revolutionary plastic e-paper set to hit the high street October 19, 2008 By Chris Laker Last updated at 4:43 PM on 15th October 2008 The era of the traditional newspaper could soon be over as scientists…
Alberta oilsands refineries could cause irreversible damage October 9, 2008 The development of a pipeline network and refineries around the Great Lakes to process Alberta bitumen “could cause irreversible” environmental damage to the…
LHC ready for trial collisions September 18, 2008 Let’s smash some atoms! The Large Hadron Collider is back on track for trial collisions this week, after a glitch with the cooling system,…
Melamine September 18, 2008 Melamine is an organic base with the chemical formulaC3H6N6, with the IUPAC name1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-triamine. It is only slightly soluble in water.Melamine is a trimer ofcyanamide. Like cyanamide, it is 66% nitrogen (by mass)…
Secret of red wine revealed September 12, 2008 It’s an enzyme called Aldehyde dehydrogenase. Specifically it’s a version of this enzyme designated as ALDH-2. Used to burn off alcohol in the liver,…
World’s largest particle collider conducts successful test September 10, 2008 GENEVA – The world’s largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons all the way around a…