The nuclear option
Why we should choose uranium-fueled energy (even over solar and wind power)
Sci + Tech
Beautiful, reusable…stuck?
The cradle to cradle concept
On the origin of life
Freaky Friday at the Redpath Museum
Full-time novelist
Cowboys, guns, engineering, and Hickam’s “The Dinosaur Hunter”
Digging for dinosaurs
Utahceratops, Kosmoceratops, and other fossils
Earthly exo-planets
The implications of Gliese 581 g
Minus pretentious jargon
Paul Dawkins and his online math notes
Events
Earth’s earliest life – where did it come from? October 8, 5 p.m. Redpath Museum Part of the Freaky Fridays series, Boswell Wing of McGill… Read More »Events
Rats, monkeys, and the human brain
Despite rapid advancements in the field of neurocognitive science, many complexities of the human brain, the “last frontier” of the human body, remain elusive. Executing… Read More »Rats, monkeys, and the human brain
Fourteen billion years ago…
Cosmic Microwave Background radiation sheds light on big questions
Sinfully science
Soup and science goes into the next round
Out with the New?
McGill math profs weigh in on shelling out for the latest edition of a textbook
Online communities: orcs to hand-knit scarves
National Science Foundation gives grant to study creativity on the Internet
Painting, writing, and surviving
Why did humans evolve the capacity to make art?
For the good of bacterial kind
Researchers study survival strategies of antibiotic-resistant E. coli