By Nathaniel Moher All right readers, as most of you know, I want nothing more than to get off this God-forsaken Earth. I mean, the Earth is dying, and I think we all know who’s to blame. That’s right — Mother Earth.Now, I know what you’re all thinking: “But, Natty, isn’t it our fault for […]
For a moment, Chris Hadfield made us cool again
By Montreal Simon Sometimes, especially on a cold spring day like today, I can’t help feeling depressed about living in a country like Harperland. I can’t help thinking about how great we might have been, and what the Cons have made of us. How once we were admired by the rest of the world, as a cool young country with decent, […]
Warp speed is possible . . . if we don’t fry first
By David@Sixthestate.net You may remember, as I do, how quickly even the most fervent anti-science hyper-skeptics went into fits of excitement over the announced discovery of the Higgs boson earlier this summer. I doubt any of them could tell you what a Higgs boson is, beyond the fact that some wag once called it “the […]
Antimatter contained for 17 minutes; hello Vulcans
by Eric Pettifor Canadian researchers (and others, but we’ll focus on lauding our countrypersons) at CERN near North Battleford, Saskatchewan (ok, CERN is really in Switzerland, but it should be in Saskatchewan) have managed to capture and contain antimatter for a whopping 17 minutes (layperson friendly description here). You realize, of course, that this means […]
Life on Mars?
Some time ago I posted about the arrival of NASA’s Phoenix Lander on Mars. I noted that the initial images were essentially a postcard letting us know that it had arrived on the red planet and was getting ready to do some work. One of the primary objectives of the mission was to explore the […]
The Phoenix has landed
The really interesting tech news at the moment is that the Phoenix lander has landed on Mars. They aimed the thing at the planet, it travelled through space, entered the Martian atmosphere, deployed a parachute to slow its descent, and landed where they wanted it to land. All that is in itself amazing, since so […]
