Tag: Technology & Science

  • EarthSky: Rosetta’s comet fuels debate on origin of Earth’s oceans

    EarthSky: Rosetta’s comet fuels debate on origin of Earth’s oceans

    There’s three times the concentration of deuterium-enriched water (heavy water) in the vapor from Rosetta’s comet as in the water on Earth. In one of most fascinating announcements yet from 2014’s most exciting space mission – ESA’s Rosetta mission to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko – researchers this week (December 10) said that water vapor from Rosetta’s comet…

  • CBC: Cellphone Privacy at issue in Supreme Court ruling

    CBC: Cellphone Privacy at issue in Supreme Court ruling

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  • EarthSky News: Everything you need to know about the Geminid meteor shower

    EarthSky News: Everything you need to know about the Geminid meteor shower

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  • Global Privacy Guardians urge App Marketplaces to make Links to Privacy Policies Mandatory

    Global Privacy Guardians urge App Marketplaces to make Links to Privacy Policies Mandatory

    The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) of Alberta in partnership with 23 privacy enforcement authorities from around the world are calling on app marketplaces to make it mandatory for mobile app developers to post links to privacy policies prior to download if they’re going to collect personal information. Privacy authorities have raised…

  • Congratulations! Newly appointed Directors of the Alberta Council of Technologies Society

    Congratulations! Newly appointed Directors of the Alberta Council of Technologies Society

    Steven Zink has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Alberta Council of Technologies Society as Treasurer and Director of Finance.  Steve is Vice President for ATB Financial for the Growth and Productivity Strategies team for Business & Agriculture.  He is also a member of the Certified Management Accountants Society of BC and…

  • A Thermostat That Knows When You’re Home — Or Asleep

    A Thermostat That Knows When You’re Home — Or Asleep

    By Brian Feldt, Reporter – St. Louis Business Journal Emerson asked teams participating in last weekend’s GlobalHack hackathon to do something no one in the company had ever done. The innovators were Sensi Sensibility — a team that included Bill MacMillan, Christine Stavridis, Martin McGreal, and Tara Pham — which built an app called Sensibility.…

  • CBC: E-cigarette technology may make them harder to regulate

    CBC: E-cigarette technology may make them harder to regulate

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  • NASA’s New Orion Spacecraft Completes First Spaceflight Test

    NASA’s New Orion Spacecraft Completes First Spaceflight Test

    Major Milestone on Agency’s Journey to Mars NASA marked a major milestone Friday on its journey to Mars as the Orion spacecraft completed its first voyage to space, traveling farther than any spacecraft designed for astronauts has been in more than 40 years. “Today’s flight test of Orion is a huge step for NASA and…

  • $10-million gift establishes DNA Science Centre

    $10-million gift establishes DNA Science Centre

    All cancers have one thing in common — a mistake in the DNA The University of Calgary will study how cells detect and repair DNA damage, using this research to reduce cancer rates and improve treatments for cancer patients. The research will take place in the newly created Robson DNA Science Centre. The centre was…

  • NASA’s Van Allen Probes Spot an Impenetrable Barrier in Space

    NASA’s Van Allen Probes Spot an Impenetrable Barrier in Space

    Two donuts of seething radiation that surround Earth, called the Van Allen radiation belts, have been found to contain a nearly impenetrable barrier that prevents the fastest, most energetic electrons from reaching Earth. The Van Allen belts are a collection of charged particles, gathered in place by Earth’s magnetic field. They can wax and wane…

  • Facebook Games May Actually Do Some Good in Your Life

    Facebook Games May Actually Do Some Good in Your Life

    Families that play [online] together, stay together, Concordia University research shows Montreal, November 18, 2014 — The next time you berate yourself for wasting an evening playing Farmville on Facebook, think again. If you were playing with Mom, Dad or Aunt Carmen, you were actually helping to strengthen family bonds. New research published in Information,…

  • 102nd Grey Cup to be the most social #GreyCup ever

    102nd Grey Cup to be the most social #GreyCup ever

    CFL.ca Staff #GreyCup TORONTO — The Canadian Football League has plans to make the 102nd Grey Cup in Vancouver the most social Grey Cup in its storied history. “For decades, the Grey Cup has been one of the most social events in Canada every year,” said CFL Commissioner Mark Cohon. “But this year, we plan to…

  • Floods, fishermen combine for southern Alberta dino find

    Floods, fishermen combine for southern Alberta dino find

    It was the catch of the day as two fishermen landed a potentially new dinosaur species uncovered by the 2013 floods. A block containing a partial dinosaur skull, neck and chest has been safely extracted from the Castle River after the fishermen reported their find to staff at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. Scientists…

  • What is the Rosetta Mission?

    What is the Rosetta Mission?

    This week on November 12, 2014, the Philae lander made a soft landing on a comet and history was made. But did you know this mission started 10 years ago? On 6 August 2014, the Rosetta mission achieved a significant milestone by becoming the first mission to rendezvous with a comet. During the coming months,…

  • Dark Night Star Light Open House at Rothney Astrophysical Observatory

    Dark Night Star Light Open House at Rothney Astrophysical Observatory

    Saturday, November 15th 8pm to 11pm Entrance fee: $20 per car or $10 per person* Preserving the wilderness of the night sky is an important mission of astronomers. This is the easiest form of pollution to mitigate, yet light abatement is the one of the most misunderstood. Join us to learn more about the dark…