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 and undergraduate students from a diverse set of the...

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 excited? If you’re not, don’t worry. This time it...

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 launched in 2006. Among a host of other duties,...

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 giving rise to the biological diversity that colours our...

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 set to revolutionize the battery market and may even...

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 stars and longed to travel among them? For a...

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 long been the domain of quack science, but recent...