GMO food needlessly demonized, says scientist By Alan McHughen Just mention GMO (genetically modified organism) and some people run scared – why? GMOs are products of technologies developed during the 1970s and 1980s that allow researchers to take DNA (i.e., genetic information) from any plant, animal or microbe and combine it with the DNA [...]
Canada Space Agency NEOSSat is world’s first space telescope to detect asteroids and satellites Earth, and the satellites that orbit it, will be a little safer today after the Canada Space Agency launched the first space telescope designed to track asteroids, satellites and space junk. An 80-kg NEOSSat (the Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite) of Canada Space [...]
Some KHL teammates on way to practice saw Russian meteor explode Michael Garnett had hit the snooze button on his alarm clock, hoping to catch a few more minutes of sleep before heading to hockey practice Friday morning, when a tremendous blast jolted him out of bed. The walls of his apartment in Chelyabinsk – [...]
Meteor strikes are relatively common, but meteors of this size are rare By Jim Heintz And Vladimir Isachenkov A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia’s Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring nearly 1,000 people. The spectacle deeply frightened many [...]
Mission aimed at searching for exotic life beneath Lake Ellsworth Beacon Staff Reporter Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey had to abandon their $11 million project seeking exotic life beneath the subglacial Lake Ellsworth in Antarctica. A statement posted to the survey’s website said that the operation had been canceled and it was not clear [...]
Chris Hadfield first Canadian to command International Space Station Beacon Staff Reporter Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield embarked on a five month space mission on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:12 a.m. EST today. The crew, comprised of Canadian Chris Hadfield, NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut [...]
Two spacecraft hit moon on Monday, site named to honour Sally Ride Beacon Staff Reporter NASA has named the site where two spacecraft hit the Moon in honor of the late astronaut Sally K. Ride, who was America’s first woman in space and a member of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission team. [...]
GRAIL probe crashes unlikely to disturb any historic lunar landing sites Beacon Staff Reporter In a grand finale to the $496 million gravity mapping mission, the NASA’s twin Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) probes will hit the lunar surface on Dec. 17. The cosmic collision has become inevitable as they have run out of [...]
Policy-based science of climate change winning the day at IPCC By Stephen Murgatroyd, PhD FRSA When we seek to understand the science of climate change, we need to understand that there are at least three kinds of science in use. The first we will call “conventional science” in which observable data either leads [...]