On Dec. 21, 2020, Jupiter and Saturn will cross paths in the night’s sky and for a brief moment, they will appear to shine together as...
We can learn a lot about climate change from Venus, our sister planet. Venus currently has a surface temperature of 450 C (the temperature of an...
Science fiction is shifting into reality. With humanity’s plans to return to the moon this decade and further ambitions to travel to Mars in the next,...
I traveled to a marine research station on a picturesque Swedish fjord many times over the four years I worked on my Ph.D. What brought me...
According to one expert, “The risk of air pollution on the brain is a much broader risk factor than we’ve given it credit for.” November 23,...
The periodic table of the elements, principally created by the Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated its 150th anniversary last year. It would be hard to...
The importance of commercially raised animals in the COVID-19 pandemic has received much attention in the past few weeks, when a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 was...
I walk outside my rural Saskatchewan house before dawn and look up, expecting to have my breath taken away by the sheer number of stars overhead....
Neuroscientists use EEG as a novel technique to map activity in the reward system of the brain in people who experience pleasurable “chills” from listening to...
Public trust in science is crucial to the good functioning of contemporary societies. When used by elected officials and policy-makers, science supports and helps justify difficult...