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Category: Science
Canadian Space Agency invests in the next big space exploration idea
The Canadian Space Agency has awarded six contracts to four organizations to develop concept studies in areas related to future space exploration ventures, including the University of Alberta’s Canadian Sweeping Energetic Particle Telescope project.
Combatting climate change with geoengineering has public support, according to University of Calgary-led study
Research on geoengineering – manipulating Earth’s climate to counter global warming and climate change – appears to have broad public support, a University of Calgary-led international study has found.
Update from Canadian team competing in 2011 Solar Decathalon
Canada’s Solar Decathlon team got a chance to utilize their energy-efficient cooking appliances and entertain for the first time on September 26 as they hosted one of the required dinner parties as part of the competition.
Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques to participate in NASA undersea mission
Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint- Jacques will embark on his first mission and join American astronauts in Neemo 15, also known as NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations.
The benefits, and risks, of banking’s reliance on technology
Troy Meddia – By Will Van’t Veld Few industries have been transformed by advances in information and communications technology (ICT) like banking. For many centuries banking was a relatively low tech and deeply personal industry, then in the span of roughly 30 years, everything from ATMs to internet banking and securitized loans became integral to [...]
New app has potential to find missing children
Parents all over Canada whose children go missing will now be able to send a global alert and ask for help from fellow mobile users through an app on BlackBerry smartphones, iPhone and Android devices.
New technology aims to enhance oil sands production with less environmental impact
By Christopher Walsh, editor New technology aimed at extracting heavy oil from the Alberta oil sands is being heralded as an environmental breakthrough that uses no water to extract oil previously too deep to open-mine and too shallow for high pressure steam injection.
