Getting high on campus
Assuming all goes well in October 2012, the University of Manitoba will expand its facilities to include the lower reaches of Earth’s atmosphere. Both graduate…
Martin Turczynowicz
How to drive forever
What if eight grams of fuel could power your car for a lifetime? What if that fuel was a radioactive element? Would you still be…
Smart, observant, fighty
For things we can’t see, we go to PAMELA (or Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics), a module attached to a Russian satellite…
RNA reactors
Modern scientists have determined that life originated from single celled organisms. They also believe that over millions of years these cells grew in complexity, eventually…
Summer battery blowout
There’s been an incredible amount of progress in electrical charge storage over the summer with two huge innovations on a nano-sized scale. Both findings are…
NASA schedules final shuttle mission
One of the things that define humanity as species is our fascination with the heavens. As children, how many of us gazed up at the…
Laser robots!
When you think of wireless power, your thoughts probably drift to giant Soviet-era towers — maybe the name Tesla comes up. Wirelessly transmitted power has…
A new domain?
The tree of life, the ingenious device used to visualize the evolution of the various taxa, is constantly undergoing changes and revisions. With new improvements…
Failure
just last week i questioned the strict preference for wood used in building longboards. I thought I could cheat the system and make a board…
Space robots!
Androids have long been the holy grail of sci-fi, and it seems like we’re one step closer to achieving our space race era dreams. NASA…