Tag: Technology & Science

  • Marsville and Bio Dome Projects Take Place in Foothills Schools

    Marsville and Bio Dome Projects Take Place in Foothills Schools

    Ecole Senator Riley Middle School On February 26, teacher Cliona Curran’s Grade 6 students hosted the first ever “Marsville” event at École Senator Riley Middle School. Students have been learning about objects in our universe, specifically looking at planets and moons in our solar system. A research project that had students examine the potential for…

  • Twitter Turns 10

    Twitter Turns 10

    Thank you! Love, Twitter By Twitter (@twitter) [21:01 UTC] Tweet On March 21, ten years ago, it began with a single Tweet. Since then, every moment of every day, people connect about the things they care about most — all over the world. As we mark this milestone, it’s you we want to celebrate. As March…

  • Town Working to Bring High-Speed Fibre Optic Internet to High River

    Town Working to Bring High-Speed Fibre Optic Internet to High River

      HIGH RIVER, AB: The Town of High River is currently working with several different companies to bring high-speed fibre optic internet connections to residential and commercial properties throughout town. “Being able to offer our residents and businesses fast and reliable high speed fibre optic internet is a high priority for the Town,” said Kent…

  • Apple vs. FBI and the Ethics of Encryption

    Apple vs. FBI and the Ethics of Encryption

    Tech giant’s appeal to public more about protecting market share than privacy, says UAlberta ethics professor. By Michael Brown Last week, Apple made news when the tech giant simultaneously began a legal and public relations defence of its refusal to comply with a court order requiring it to help the FBI break into an iPhone…

  • NASA Global Hawk Flies Pacific Storm Mission

    NASA Global Hawk Flies Pacific Storm Mission

    Extreme weather predictions on the West Coast could become more accurate with help from NASA’s remotely piloted Global Hawk. Flights to look at Pacific storms as they develop began Feb. 12. The mission will show how Global Hawk could augment satellites and routinely fly vast areas of the ocean, said Robbie Hood, director of the…

  • Return of the Roar: Animatronic dinosaurs invade the Calgary Zoo again

    Return of the Roar: Animatronic dinosaurs invade the Calgary Zoo again

    Calgary, AB – They’re back! Contrary to popular belief, not all dinosaurs are extinct as the Calgary Zoo’s animatronic dinosaurs have returned to once again take over Prehistoric Park. Recently bestowed a Gold Award from Interpretation Canada, this award-winning experience reopens March 18, 2016. Dinosaurs Alive features new additions for 2016 such as water cannons…

  • A Social Campus Life Starts up with Chitter

    A Social Campus Life Starts up with Chitter

    eHUB startup creates a campus-life app that captures the attention of Silicon Valley. By Michael Brown A University of Alberta-born smartphone app created to bring students closer together has caught the attention of one of Silicon Valley’s most successful startup incubators. The free sharing app, called Chitter, was designed to connect college and university students…

  • Why do Chimpanzees Throw Stones at Trees?

    Why do Chimpanzees Throw Stones at Trees?

      Newly discovered stone tool-use behavior and accumulation sites in wild chimpanzees reminiscent to human cairns Chimpanzees often use tools to extract or consume food. Which tools they choose for which purpose, however, can differ depending on the region where they live. Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have…

  • Catalyzing a New Generation of Natural Gas Engines

    Catalyzing a New Generation of Natural Gas Engines

    Chemical engineering professor one of six UAlberta researchers receiving NSERC Strategic Partnership Grants for promising collaborations. By Michael Brown The alchemist of catalysis: chemical engineering professor Robert Hayes in the lab Up until about 15 years ago, catalysis—the process of using a material to both speed up a reaction and determine what products are formed—required…

  • Calgary Transit and Shaw Communications expand public Wi-Fi to CTrain stations in the downtown corridor

    Calgary Transit and Shaw Communications expand public Wi-Fi to CTrain stations in the downtown corridor

    Calgary Transit, with Shaw Communications Inc., has announced six new locations for public Wi-Fi servicing CTrain stations within the downtown corridor. These locations include: 3 Street 4 Street 6 Street 7 Street 8 Street Downtown West – Kerby “The success of public Wi-Fi at our stations at Chinook, Shaganappi Point, City Hall, Centre Street and…

  • 20 Amazing Pictures from Astronaut Scott Kelly’s Year in Space

    20 Amazing Pictures from Astronaut Scott Kelly’s Year in Space

    Canada Space Agency  During his one-year mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Scott Kelly has mastered the art of space photography. He has shared hundreds of photos with the world on his Twitter account to show us his life aboard the ISSand the breathtaking beauty of our planet. To commemorate the end…

  • Are the Terms “Global Warming” and “Climate Change” Interchangeable?

    Are the Terms “Global Warming” and “Climate Change” Interchangeable?

    Research on what “global warming” and “climate change” mean, and when to use the terms By Leighton Walter Kille The growing threat of rising levels of greenhouse gases has been in the news for a good 30 years now, and a range of terms have been used to describe the consequences of inaction: “climate change,” “global…

  • Alberta Wildflower Helps Scientists Plan for Climate Change

    Alberta Wildflower Helps Scientists Plan for Climate Change

      By Helen Metella, UofA A pretty wildflower that grows sparsely in east-central Alberta is helping ALES researchers develop strategies for coping with climate change. Transplanting the plant species to southern Alberta, where temperatures are as hot as those projected for its current habitat later this century, researchers found poor germination and establishment. But when…

  • Canadian Tire Ushers in New Era of Digital Collaboration with Facebook at Work

    Canadian Tire Ushers in New Era of Digital Collaboration with Facebook at Work

      Canadian Tire becomes first Canadian retailer and largest Canadian employer to use Facebook at Work; Company harnesses power of social media to connect employees at all levels TORONTO, February, 2016 /CNW/ – Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (TSX:CTC, TSX:CTC.a) announced today the adoption of Facebook at Work, an innovative platform designed to fundamentally change the way…

  • RCAF Participates in International Search and Rescue Training in Iceland

    RCAF Participates in International Search and Rescue Training in Iceland

    From 1 Canadian Air Division, Winnipeg RCAF personnel enhance skills with Icelandic authorities Members of 103 Search and Rescue Squadron from 9 Wing Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador, are returning home after training with the Icelandic Coast Guard and local search and rescue teams from February 9 to 12, 2016. The nine Royal Canadian Air Force…