A team of researchers at the Ocean University of China has developed and tested a mobile lidar (light detection and ranging) station that can accurately measure wind speed and direction over large are... more »
In the morning of 10 July 2008 an operation to tag three peregrine falcon chicks happened in Toronto. The event is particularly special because this is the first known peregrine falcon nest at a... more »
On 5 July 2008 Saturn, Mars, Regulus and a crescent Moon aligned in a straight line in the western twilight sky after sunset. Mars is the orange dot in between Saturn, the highest of the three d... more »
A new analysis of the setting for last month's devastating earthquake in China by a team of geoscientists at MIT shows that the quake resulted from faults with little seismic activity, and that simila... more »
Canada is building the world's first space telescope designed to detect and track asteroids as well as satellites. Called NEOSSat (Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite), this spacecraft will provi... more »
At around 7:17 on the morning of June 30, 1908, a man based at the trading post at Vanavara in Siberia is sitting on his front porch. In a moment, 40 miles [64 km] from the center of an immense blast ... more »
In a provocative article in the 7 March 2008 issue of Science Magazine, the University of Maryland's Ben Shneiderman, one of the world's leading researchers and innovators in human-computer interactio... more »
A team led by MIT students successfully tested a prototype of what may be the most cost-efficient solar power system in the world -- one that team members believe has the potential to revolutionize gl... more »
Ask any scientist to name Earth's most abundant source of energy, and the answer comes quickly: sunlight. In one hour, the Sun strikes Earth with enough energy to power the entire planet for a year.Th... more »
Information gleaned from a Greenland ice core by an international science team shows that two huge Northern Hemisphere temperature spikes prior to the close of the last ice age some 11,500 years ago w... more »
Courtesy: Andrew YeeLeaders from science centres and museums around the world met in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from June 14-19, 2008 for the Fifth Science Centre World Congress. At the closing ceremony... more »
Scientists have confirmed for the first time that an important component of early genetic material which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin.The finding suggests that p... more »
Scientists working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., have concocted an innovative recipe for giant telescope mirrors on the Moon. To make a mirror that dwarfs anything on Earth,... more »
The International Astronomical Union has decided on the term plutoid as a name for dwarf planets like Pluto at a meeting of its Executive Committee in Oslo.Almost two years after the International Ast... more »
New research suggests that how often Old Faithful and other Yellowstone geysers erupt may depend on annual rainfall patterns.Geysers are rare hot springs that periodically erupt bursts of steam and ho... more »
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Geochronology Center have pinpointed the date of the dinosaurs' extinction more precisely than ever thanks to refinements to a co... more »
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) successfully captured a movie of the "Full Earth-rise" using the onboard High Definition Television (HD... more »
The mechanism behind different types of lightning may now be understood, thanks to a combination of direct observation and computer modeling reported by a team of researchers from New Mexico Tech and ... more »
A new study challenges the common practice in many classrooms of teaching mathematical concepts by using "real-world," concrete examples.Researchers led by Jennifer Kaminski, researcher scie... more »
A mathematical model produced by a scientist from the University of East Anglia in U.K. suggests that the odds of finding new life on other Earth-like planets are low, given the time it has taken for ... more »
Physicist Art McDonald, director of the Queen's-led Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) is one of 30 Canadians promoted to Officer of the Order of Canada in Ottawa.Dr. McDonald first received the desig... more »
On March 29 between 8 and 9 pm local time the 2008 Earth Hour global campaign took place, with an aim of raising the awareness of energy conservation. Many residents and businesses in Toronto tu... more »
A group of researchers has succeeded in playing a sound recording of a human voice made in 1860 -- seventeen years before Thomas Edison invented the phonograph.Roughly ten seconds in length, the recor... more »
Computers, long used as tools to design and manipulate three-dimensional objects, may soon provide people with a way to sense the texture of those objects or feel how they fit together, thanks to a ha... more »
In late 2004 satellite image mosaic shows the mega-iceberg A53a in the process of breaking off from the Larsen Ice Shelf.Courtesy: NASA GSFCOn 15 January 2008 astronauts of Expedition 16 mission on th... more »
A NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars has taken the first ever image of active avalanches near the Red Planet's north pole. The image shows tan clouds billowing away from the foot of a towering slope... more »
After a picture-perfect night launch on March 11 and three spacewalks to assemble it, Dextre was activated today. Canada's advanced, two-armed robot is now successfully installed on the International ... more »
Robots are fluent in their native language of 1 and 0 absolutes but struggle to grasp the nuances and imprecise nature of human language. While scientists are making slow, incremental progress in thei... more »
An email has been in circulation claiming that the Easter of 2008 happens unusually early, on March 23.While the email correctly identifies the date of the early arrival of Easter in 2008, the Urban L... more »
Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Nokia tested technology that could soon transform the way drivers navigate through congested highways and obtain information about road con... more »
The kilogram is losing weight and many international scientists agree that it's time to redefine it.Scientists are hoping to redefine the kilogram by basing it on standards of universal constants rath... more »
The World At Night (TWAN) is a new programme founded in 2007 with the goal of creating a collection of stunning photographs of the world's most beautiful and historic sites against the night-time back... more »
New calculations by University of Sussex astronomers predict that the Earth will be swallowed up by the Sun in about 7.6 billion years unless the Earth's orbit can be altered.Previous calculations sug... more »
While the nighttime view of Toronto is a spectacle for visitors and residents, the amount of light that spills upward has brightened the night sky so much that unaided eyes can easily see only bright ... more »
Once considered just your average single asteroid, 2001 SN263 has now been revealed as the first near-Earth triple asteroid ever found. The asteroid -- with three bodies orbiting each other -- was dis... more »
When a swimsuit manufacturer wanted to create a better fabric for competitive swimmers, it sought out some unlikely experts -- aerospace engineers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virgini... more »
Starting February 15 a nationwide initiative enables volunteers to track climate change by observing the timing of flowers and foliage. Project BudBurst, operated by the University Corporation for Atm... more »
NASA is using a new treadmill that allows people to run while suspended horizontally to help astronauts prepare for long-duration missions to the moon and beyond. A team of engineers at NASA's Glenn R... more »
The recent flyby of Mercury by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has given scientists an entirely new look at a planet once thought to have characteristics similar to those of Earth's moon. Researchers are ... more »
For the first time ever, NASA beamed a song -- The Beatles' "Across the Universe" -- directly into deep space at 7 p.m. EST on Feb. 4 [0000 UTC Feb. 5].Courtesy: NASAThe transmission over NA... more »
Using a tabletop laser, University of Rochester optical scientists have turned pure aluminum, gold.And blue. And gray. And many other colors. And it works for every metal tested, including platinum, t... more »
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Rice University have created the darkest material ever made by man.The material, a thin coating comprised of low-density arrays of loosely verticall... more »
German student Nicole Schmiedel has come up with a design for a trendy-looking wristwatch that contains an innovative ultra-light insulin pump to help people with type 1 diabetes. The watch produces i... more »
Albert Folch is a scientist who also happens to appreciate art. And many of the photos he's taken through his microscope would look equally at home on the walls of a modern-art gallery. Crimson geomet... more »
Since its discovery, the annual migration of eastern North American monarch butterfly has captivated the human imagination and spirit. That millions of butterflies annually fly up to 2000 miles to rea... more »
New work by astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows that if Earth had been slightly smaller and less massive, it would not have plate tectonics -- the forces that move con... more »
New data have led to a significant reduction in the position uncertainties during the asteroid's close approach to Mars on Jan. 30, 2008. As a result, the impact probability has dropped dramatically, ... more »
Shine a white light on the Hope Diamond and it will dazzle you with the brilliance of an amazing blue diamond. Shine an ultraviolet light on the Hope Diamond and the gem will glow red-orange for about... more »
Plate tectonics, the geologic process responsible for creating the Earth's continents, mountain ranges, and ocean basins, may be an on-again, off-again affair.Scientists have assumed that the shifting... more »
The longest-running search for radio signals from alien civilizations is getting a burst of new data from an upgraded Arecibo telescope, which means the SETI@home project needs more desktop computers ... more »
A new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity, bringing with it increased risks for power grids, critical military, civilian and airline communications, GPS signals and even cell phones and ATM tra... more »
NOAA will lead an international effort to pinpoint the locations of more than 40 global positioning satellites in Earth orbit, which is vital to ensuring the accuracy of GPS data that millions worldwi... more »
The stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia National Laborator... more »
Organic compounds contain carbon and hydrogen and form the building blocks of all life on Earth. By analyzing organic material and minerals in the Martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001, scientists at th... more »
Like geological ninjas, earthquakes can strike without warning. But there may be a way to detect the footfalls of large earthquakes before they strike, alerting their potential victims a week or more ... more »
The infamous Indian Ocean tsunami that struck on December 26, 2004, caused tragically high mortality -- from 10 to 90 percent of the population at various locations. Yet in 1930 a tsunami of similar s... more »
NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin, Voyager 1, into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas be... more »
Life may have begun in the protected spaces inside of layers of the mineral mica, in ancient oceans, according to a new hypothesis.The hypothesis was developed by Helen Hansma, a research scientist wi... more »
Wildlife photos from a motion-triggered camera used in wildlife research in Orange County between Los Angeles and San Diego managed to survive the fire intact, along with some astonishing photos.
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South Hampton, UK — Perhaps the first science festival could be said to be the 1851 World's Fair in London. Over a quarter of the population of Britain went to marvel at the latest inventions am... more »
When the Japanese space agency launched its SELENE / KAGUYA lunar spacecraft on the morning of September 14, 2007 (Japanese time, evening of Sept. 13 in North America), it carried a HDTV camera that w... more »
Consumer and corporate Internet usage could outstrip network capacity both in North America and worldwide in a little more than two years ... This study — the first-ever to assess internet infra... more »
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