science

The imagery and messages of large activist groups like Greenpeace can be problematic. It’s easy to see why. Hume observed, and this is now a well-established phenomenon in social psychology and the social sciences, that...

For thousands of years humans have taken for granted that we would have winter and summer, a planting season and harvest season. Suddenly we’re finding climatic variations are changing that conception of seasonality. Winnipeg’s 2011/2012...

Two weeks ago, the Center for Inquiry of Fort Lauderdale in Florida celebrated the fourth annual Carl Sagan day. Since 2009, they have hosted educational events on Nov. 9 including a science fair for local...

In the sky with diamonds It’s like something out of a science fiction movie. Forty light years away in the constellation of Cancer, orbiting a sun-like star, exists a planet that does not consist of...

Controversy continues to rage over a geoengineering project intended to boost salmon populations around the islands of Haida Gwaii, BC, by fertilizing the water with iron. In July, the project, backed by controversial American businessman...

Research published in the journal Science has helped to explain the climate conditions behind Genghis Khan’s rise to power. Through examining the inside of old trees from lava fields in Mongolia, researchers were able...

Three years after the earthquake in the town of L’Aquila, Italy, that killed 309 people, a group of Italian scientists and government officials have been sentenced to six years in prison for manslaughter for...