Europe swelters under heatwave, prompting crisis talks in France
A punishing heatwave sweeping across much of Europe has prompted emergency meetings in France, nationwide warnings in Germany…
SpaceX Starfall Demo Flies Tuesday: Disk Capsule Bets on Orbital Manufacturing Scale
SpaceX is preparing to fly its first Starfall prototype on Tuesday, June 23, in a low-profile demo that…
Making Sense Of Mars’ Tiny Moon Of Phobos
Mars’ innermost moon of Phobos has long puzzled planetary scientists who have continually debated whether it’s a captured…
Science North exhibit uses art to spotlight single-use plastic impacts
Toronto-based artist Benjamin Von Wong is known for his large-scale installations with an environmental message Benjamin Von Wong,…
Sunday is the longest day of the year for half the planet. A guide to the summer solstice
This is the sun’s time to shine: Sunday is the longest day of the year in the Northern…
ICYMI: Hidden in the Prairies: Alberta’s Alien-Looking Red Rock Coulee Is Unreal
By Nerissa McNaughton on June 20, 2026. Summer is the perfect time to make memories, and what better…
Wind turbines in Norway were spinning so fast they became invisible to eagles until engineers painted one blade black and began saving dozens of birds
Wind energy is reaching new heights across the world. Millions of homes are now powered by wind. Yet,…
Supermassive black holes may be surrounded by dark matter clusters, new ‘echo map’ technique suggests
Astronomers have used a technique called echo mapping to detect hints that supermassive black holes, such as the…
Seal pups and seabird chicks are suffering in extreme weather. How can we protect them?
Extreme weather is becoming the new normal, disrupting human communities across the globe. It is also affecting wildlife…
The first primates may have evolved in the cold, not the tropics
Most people imagine our early primate ancestors swinging through lush tropical forests. But recent research shows that they…
Libman: Fréchette’s olive branch to anglos more like a poke in the eye
Poudre aux yeux is a common French idiom that translates literally to “powder in the eyes.” It refers…
The longest continuous spaceflight in history — 437 days aboard the Russian Mir space station, completed by cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov in 1995 — was specifically conducted to prove that a human being could survive a round-trip mission to Mars, in a piece of human endurance that has been waiting unused on a shelf for three decades
The record sits at the top of every list of human spaceflight endurance achievements, has been there since…