Telescope groundbreaking set to be a real blast
Construction of the world’s largest ground based telescope kicked off with a real lame bang. Just before 2:00pm EST, the European Southern Observatory blew the top off Cerro Armazones, a 3,000-metre-high peak in the Chilean Andes. The site will eventually house the European Extremely Large Telescope and will have a …
Read More »Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine kicks off Nobel Week
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof “for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.”
Read More »Kilonova explosion caught on camera by Hubble
Roughly 4 billion light years away in the constellation, Leo, the explosive remnant of a stellar collision between two neutron stars – predicted to be the source of all the gold and platinum in our universe – may have been caught on camera by an international team of researchers.
Read More »Giant plant-eating dinosaur skulls help researchers understand mega-mingling in the fossil record
The skulls from some of the largest plant-eating dinosaurs to be unearthed at Dinosaur Park may help researchers understand how so many of the mega-sized creatures thrived alongside each other.
Read More »Commander Hadfield helps researchers unravel mysteries of space travel
While Commander Hadfield’s body readjusts to life on Earth, researchers from Canada and France are studying him so they can better understand the changes that astronauts’ bodies experience while in space.
Read More »World’s oldest water found in Canadian Shield
Researchers from Canada and the United Kingdom have found that water pouring into of a mine could be as much as 2.6 billion years old and may even support life.
Read More »Chris Hadfield has first press conference since landing back on terra firma
In his first press conference since he landed back on terra firma, Chris Hadfield told journalists about life after spending five months in space.
Read More »Earliest Maya ceremonial and monumental structures found in Guatemala
A hand carved tunnel and other excavations at the settlement of Ceibal in Guatemala, have helped an international team of researchers identify the earliest ceremonial and monumental structures.
Read More »New dog-sized pachycephalosaur unearthed in southern Alberta
A team of researchers from Canada and the United States have unearthed the oldest pachycephalosaur fossil in North America – maybe even the world – and said its existence hints that other dinosaurs may also have had dog-sized versions.
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