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Learn moreThe Falcon 9 successfully completed a static test fire at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, where SpaceX is preparing for the rocket's debut flight next month.
Reflectors placed on the moon during Apollo missions practically stop working during a full moon. Now we may know why.
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 1 day ago
Url movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK9hRgbPsmM *I selected this version* for the picture. Behind the veil is a beautiful human being, as beautiful as this love song (habibi (arab) means: darling) a...
The SOHO observatory catches a comet crashing into the sun.
It's a question people are probably more likely to ask themselves this time of year when we go to bed and then lose an hour. It can feel wildly unfair for the clock to say 7:00 a.m. when it actually ...
On CBC radio's The House this morning, Laurie Hawn, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Defence and the lead government MP on the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan, s...
The alleged "world's strongest chicken" is appearing at a Green Bay rodeo where he will pull trainer and rodeo clown Rory Meeks in a specially designed chicken chariot.
In 1.5 million years time a star called Gliese 710 has a high chance of colliding with the Oort Cloud, potentially causing mayhem on Earth.
The Pacific Seahorse would seem to be a movie natural. This fish is dramatic yellow in color, with sparkling eyes and a hairdo-looking tuft on its head that would be at home on a Dr. Seuss character. But f...
Environmental activist Tzeporah Berman of Forest Ethics presents BC Premier Gordon Campbell with a "green award" at the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009. The previous month Campbell hired B...
Naturalist Mark Fraser is back with a look this time at the Virginia creeper clearwing moth. According to Mark, the insect "has evolved to be a mimic of a wasp and looks similar to a paper wasp. They even ...
posted by address-withheld@my.opera.com.invalid (Dr. John v. Kampen) at - 2 days ago
*Do we live in a world of deception?* I asked myself this question after viewing the phenomenal material from the Paris multimedia company "BUF". It occurred to me 'easy' to distort or even simulate reali...
It's easy to imagine the Arctic ice cap as it looks on a globe -- pinned firmly to one spot. However, that's not the case. Sea ice is free to roam when it breaks up, bobbing out of the Arctic ...
This is a fun little Friday post. Something lite. Two students from the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås has developed a textile that works like a musical instruments. Sort of. Jeannine Han and Dan Rile...
Scientific tests have shown that 51 decapitated bodies found in southern England were executed Viking raiders.
The pill reduced women's risk of dying from bowel cancer and other diseases.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault now houses the world's most diverse collection of seeds.
Nearly 65 years after the conclusion of World War 2, victims of Nazi atrocities are still being discovered.
Dog growls may all sound the same to human ears, but they hold more specific meanings for dog listeners, according to a new study.
The European settlement of Greenland may sound like a minor folly by some ancient Vikings irrelevant to modern times. But a generation of anthropologists and climate scientists has put a different face on ...
This is Yamaha's RMAX unmanned aerial vehicle, which according to the company's website is "to be used in agriculture for the purpose of crop dusting, and also to serve...for observation/monitoring." Now, ...
In this final part of our three-part series, we examine sea ice extent, extraterrestrial warming, IPCC errors, and hacked e-mails. The topics we've covered this week just scratch the surface, of course; th...
An underwater fly that builds a covering of pebbles and sand by gluing them together could point the way for developing a glue that works while wet.
George Mallory's camera may contain evidence of whether he and Andrew Irvine were the first to summit Everest.
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*TV-advertisements can be quite annoying* and they can be an Art that one really enjoys. Making TV-commercials isn't everybody's piece of cake. Then it requires many more skills than just putting a text o...
As PMO spokesthingey Dimitri Soudas pitches it somewhat awkwardly on YouTube : *Ask Your Questions to Prime Minister Harper* Submit your questions for Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in his resp...
HM Cancri has been confirmed as a binary system of two white dwarfs orbiting one other so close, they complete one orbit every 5.4 minutes. With a year this short, it's little wonder HM Cancri is a record ...
The Hoover Dam Bypass bridge is almost 2,000 feet long, carries four lanes of traffic and a sidewalk, so tourists can get a good view of the dam.
Where's the real conspiracy, and what does climate denialism say about the state of American democracy?
I use Google Maps all of the time. Not just to get directions to drive somewhere, but also to find out how far it is to walk somewhere. And there's also a public transit feature, which I don't use because ...
New insights into brain activity could explain how memories are formed and how they change over time.
Zookeepers thought that "Mr. Shuffles" had died during labor, but the calf pulled through.
The genetic code of an entire family reveals mutations aren't passed on to children as commonly as thought.
Birds that appear to be half-hen, half-rooster aren't quite as mixed up on the cellular level.
If this is your first exposure to the Friday News Feedbag...we're glad to have you in the club. Welcome to Feedbag Nation, which stems from our weekly science news podcast that you can subscribe to here on...
The science of geology may be considerably older than once thought.
A new infrared telescope has found 16 previously unknown asteroids that swing close to Earth.
Given that the Cons blocked the Military Police Complaints Commission from receiving documents on the Afghan detainees : "Canada's former top military police officer, retired navy captain Steve Moore, adv...
Given the inherent complexity of English, reading to young children is critical to developing their language skills.
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Environmental activist Tzeporah Berman of Forest Ethics presents BC Premier Gordon Campbell with a "green award" at the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009. The previous month Campbell hired B...
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