Tag: Technology & Science

  • Record Number of Americans Apply to #BeAnAstronaut at NASA

    Record Number of Americans Apply to #BeAnAstronaut at NASA

      More than 18,300 people applied to join NASA’s 2017 astronaut class, almost three times the number of applications received in 2012 for the most recent astronaut class, and far surpassing the previous record of 8,000 in 1978. “It’s not at all surprising to me that so many Americans from diverse backgrounds want to personally…

  • Zika Virus Researchers Join Forces to Develop Handheld Detection Device

    Zika Virus Researchers Join Forces to Develop Handheld Detection Device

    Virologists tap interdisciplinary expertise to fast-track diagnostic test. By Michael Brown, University of Alberta The University of Alberta’s first Zika virus researcher has joined forces with an interdisciplinary team to help with the rapid development of a much-needed handheld, inexpensive device that can detect the virus. The team of U of A virologists led by…

  • TELUS launches Skype for Business

    TELUS launches Skype for Business

    Skype for Business, powered by TELUS, helps Canadian businesses transform how they connect, collaborate and communicate – internally and externally Toronto – TELUS has teamed up with Microsoft and Avanade to offer Skype for Business, powered by TELUS, an enterprise-grade unified communications and collaboration (UCC) solution that enables new ways for employees to connect with…

  • Science Fiction to Science Fact

    Science Fiction to Science Fact

      Super-skyscrapers which will dwarf the Shard, under water bubble cities and origami furniture are all likely to be reality in 100 years’ time. That’s the verdict of a new study which paints a vivid picture of our future lives; suggesting the way we live, work and play will change beyond all recognition over the…

  • AlbertaSat Students Taking their Place Among Space Industry Leaders

    AlbertaSat Students Taking their Place Among Space Industry Leaders

    The team building Alberta’s first satellite are mixing with the big names in space exploration. By News Staff, University of Alberta A team of University of Alberta students designing and building Alberta’s first satellite are playing a big role in a space industry symposium this week, rubbing shoulders with government, corporate and academic leaders. Six…

  • Foothills MP elected as vice-chair of Natural Resources Committee

    Foothills MP elected as vice-chair of Natural Resources Committee

    OTTAWA – Today, John Barlow, Member of Parliament for Foothills and Official Opposition Deputy Critic of Employment, Workforce and Labour was elected as vice-chair of the Natural Resources Committee. The Standing Committee on Natural Resources may examine issues related to the four industrial sectors that constitute the mandate of the Department of Natural Resources (NRCan): the energy…

  • Rare Salamander Lays Eggs in Slovenia Cave

    Rare Salamander Lays Eggs in Slovenia Cave

    Slovenian folklore speaks of baby dragons flushed from parents’ subterranean lairs. Today, we know these rare creatures as the olm, and one of them has laid eggs. In the subterranean caves of central and southeastern Europe dwells a rare and unusual aquatic salamander species known as the olm. Its females lay their eggs just once…

  • Ancient Pyramid Discovered in the Caribbean

    Ancient Pyramid Discovered in the Caribbean

    TORONTO /CNW/ – Amateur archaeologist Raymond Julien finds an Egyptian-style pyramid sticking out of the ocean. The island pyramid is covered in tropical trees and lava. The trees covering the island reveal the shape of something hidden underneath, resembling the outline of a pyramid with 40 degree angles on each side. Having visited the island last March,…

  • Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years after Einstein’s Prediction

    Gravitational Waves Detected 100 Years after Einstein’s Prediction

    LIGO Opens New Window on the Universe with Observation of Gravitational Waves from Colliding Black Holes Syracuse University integral to detection of gravitational waves by LIGO For the first time, scientists have observed ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, arriving at the earth from a cataclysmic event in the distant universe. This…

  • Four New Deep-Sea Xenoturbella Species Discovered

    Four New Deep-Sea Xenoturbella Species Discovered

    Four new species of Xenoturbella have been discovered living in the deep waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean by a team of scientists from the Western Australian Museum, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium & Research Institute in the United States. Looking a little like empty socks that crawl along the ocean…

  • University of Alberta Scientists Calculate Dinosaurs’ Need for Speed

    University of Alberta Scientists Calculate Dinosaurs’ Need for Speed

    Paleontologists link leg length to running ability in bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs. By University of Alberta A new study in leg length among carnivorous dinosaurs has yielded a formula to identify adaptations for speed. The theory is simple: to run faster, dinosaurs evolved longer legs. “How fast a predator can run is obviously important,” says University of…

  • Leading Space Research Draws New Canadian Space Agency Funding

    Leading Space Research Draws New Canadian Space Agency Funding

    Research at Schulich and Science, into how aurora borealis interferes with GPS signals, among four university projects awarded Space research is deepening our understanding of atmospheric phenomena like the space weather dynamics that create aurora borealis. This breathtaking light show belies the epic forces at the heart of space storms that send radiation, solar winds,…

  • Evidence Points to Big, Undiscovered Planet

    Evidence Points to Big, Undiscovered Planet

    By David Rosen & Eric Francis Coppolino It’s not every day that a new planet announces its existence, but that depends on what you mean by planet. Moons, asteroids, centaurs, comets and dwarf planets are discovered relentlessly. Nearly a million are known and catalogued, all objects orbiting our Sun. The great majority have been spotted…

  • Alberta Boosts Support for High-Tech Innovation and Research

    Alberta Boosts Support for High-Tech Innovation and Research

      The Government of Alberta is providing additional funding for Alberta’s high-tech businesses to create a more diversified and resilient economy. The Enhanced Innovation Voucher and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Support program will receive $5 million in additional funding to help small innovative and technology-based businesses gain access to services and expertise they need to…

  • Flower Blooms in Space

    Flower Blooms in Space

    Here it is! A flower grown on the International Space station blooms. On Saturday (January 16, 2016), International Space Station (ISS) astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted out an image of what he described as the first flower grown in space. The orange zinnia – a plant related to the sunflower – is from a small garden…