They’re baaa-ackk. NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken returned safely to Earth after a two-month stay on the space station. The SpaceX Dragon Capsule splashed down just south of Pensacola on Florida’s Gulf coast at 2:48 PM ET, marking a successful end to the first successful journey into space...
The St. Patrick Bay ice caps on the Hazen Plateau of northeastern Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, have disappeared, according to NASA satellite imagery. National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) scientists and colleagues predicted via a 2017 paper in The Cryosphere that the ice caps would melt out...
Aaron Fairweather has 27 colonies of ants to keep happy in the living room by getting the temperature, humidity and light just right although the environment at home may not feel quite as comfortable as in a lab. The PhD entomology student from the University of Guelph said it was...
During lockdowns and other measures to control the spread of the novel coronavirus there was as much as a 50% drop globally in the seismic vibrations humans normally generate, according to new study. They've dubbed it the "anthropause" – a quiet interlude when Covid-19-induced lockdowns around the planet hushed the...
Blue holes are underwater sinkholes, similar to sink holes on land. Underwater sink holes, springs, and caverns are karst (calcium carbonate rock) features that are scattered across Florida’s Gulf continental shelf. They vary in size, shape and depth, but most are ecological hot spots with a high diversity of...
Researchers may be closer to slowing down the aging process, according to a new study. Health experts said the findings will provide mankind with the ability to delay aging and the illnesses that come along with it. A team of scientists from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) used...
PhD Student Basti Stockmaier published his last empirical dissertation chapter entitled “Immune-challenged vampire bats produce fewer contact calls” in Biology Letters. He also presented a poster today at a virtual conference entitled “How do pathogens and parasites affect behaviour?“. I’ve posted a copy of the poster below. For obvious reasons,...
The day that Grade 10 classes ended for ECS (Miss Edgar’s & Miss Cramp’s School) student Vanessa Vassalos, she was already setting up her Parc Avenue pop-up shop called Essentiels COVID19, carrying PPEs and other stay-safe essentials. She vowed to donate a large portion of her sales to the Montreal...
The UAE has successfully launched its Mars probe, named Hope, making history as the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission. “We have lift-off. H2A, the rocket carrying the Hope Probe to space, has launched from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Japan,” the official account Hope Mars Mission tweeted early Monday...
A team of researchers have manufactured a non-cuttable material that could be used in bike locks. This new material, which could be used in the security and health and safety industries, can turn back the force of a cutting tool upon itself. The lightweight material — named Proteus after the shape-changing...