For the second time in a row, Vancouver’s (Canada) Café Scientifique is at Yagger’s Downtown (433 W. Pender), which is hosting the upcoming August 2016 Café Scientifique talk. From the August 24, 2016 ...

Grrl Scientist’s Punctuated Equilibrium blog (one of the Guardian newspaper’s science blogs) has posted about the launch of Google’s first global online science fair. From the Jan. 11, 2011 posting, ...

The Space Centre is also introducing two brand new programs with the digital system launch: The Searcher and IBEX: The Search of the Edge of the Solar System. A third program, an immersive music show ...

As noted in a previous post, I’m not super impressed with the ‘War on Science’ branding favoured by a distinct portion of the Canadian science community as I find it reductionist. After all, Canada’s ...

Eighteen percent of participants belonged to a group labeled the “new technology rejecters,” which would not by GM or nanotech foods under any circumstances. Nineteen percent of participants belonged ...

While I didn’t mention neuromorphic engineering in my April 16, 2014 posting which focused on the more general aspect of nanotechnology in Transcendence, a movie starring Johnny Depp and opening on ...

Cyanuric acid is commonly used to stabilize chlorine in backyard pools; it binds to free chlorine and releases it slowly in the water. But researchers at McGill University have now discovered that ...

Came across an item about a 3-D graphic novel that features nanotechnology. The author, Gina Miller aka nanogirl, was interviewed by Gavin Sheehan for City Weekly (Salt Lake City, Utah, that is). From ...

A Dec. 24, 2013 news item on Azonano announced a radio interview with Eugene Seymour, Chief Executive Officer of NanoViricdes, The Company today announced that Michael Yorba of Clear Channel’s ...

The idea for this technology came from the IBS chemist HWANG Ilha: “I was watching a TV news report on the usage of illegal drugs, and I thought to check what the chemical structure of methamphetamine ...

The Council Canadian of Academies (CCA) released a report on subnational science policy that started life as a workshop on the province of Alberta’s science policy (see my Nov. 10, 2016 posting).

There’s not much time left if you want to participate in this Kickstarter project (20 hours and counting when I accessed it at 0930 PST Dec. 20, 2012) but I want to feature it here because it ...