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'Spiderman gloves' within reach, scientists say *
Scientists working to replicate the incredible stickiness of gecko lizard's feet have come up with a sort of tape that could allow people to climb, superhero-style, on glass ceilings and walls.
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16 killed in Brazilian rocket blast *
A rocket exploded on its launch pad Friday while undergoing final pre-launch tests, killing at least 16 people, officials said.
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A little sprite breathes free *
Two-year-old Daphné Spence no longer needs a respirator thanks to a technology that may not be available much longer, writes ANDRÉ PICARD.
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A N.Z. dropout proffers an astonishing answer to an ancient riddle *
A 27-year-old New Zealand university dropout says he has resolved a physics riddle that has puzzled philosophers and scientists for 2,500 years -- and in the process, he may have proven there is no such thing as a fixed moment in time.
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A sight to behold *
Even if you don't know Ursa Major from Canis Minor, you'll have no difficulty finding Mars.
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A Spirit visits Mars *
NASA said Monday that it has successfully adjusted the course of a rover that is scheduled to land on Mars this weekend as part of a mission to search for evidence of life.
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Ain't no ocean deep enough *
Extinct volcanoes far below the sea are magnets for marine life, some of it new to science. But even at that depth, nothing is safe from fishing boats equipped with sophisticated tracking technology, ALANNA MITCHELL reports
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Animation technology helps a boy walk *
The same technology that brought Gollum to life in the movie Lord of the Rings is helping an Alberta boy stand on his own two feet.
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Another mystery of Earth *
This was a week of interesting opposites. For the first time, humans were seeing arresting images of Saturn's moon Phoebe, while at almost the same instant biologists were quietly announcing -- again -- how little we understand about life on Earth.
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Asteroid a threat to Earth? *
An asteroid about a kilometre wide has been spotted in distant space and will be closely studied for its possible future course while visible over the next two months, British astronomers said Tuesday
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Asteroid: Close only counts in horseshoes *
" . . . missed us, missed us, don'cha wish you kissed us?"
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Astronomers find planet almost as old as universe *
A planet nearly as old as the universe has been discovered in the constellation Scorpius by a consortium of Canadian and U.S. astronomers.
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Astronomers find source of planetary building material *
A British team of scientists believes that they have finally figured out the source of the cosmic dust that all planets are made of, solving what they call "a 10-billion-year-old mystery."
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At 84, original 'abductee' still wants to believe *
You could say Betty and Barney Hill's last meal -- at least, the last while they still led normal lives -- was eaten in Montreal, one of their favourite cities.
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B.C. treated to skybursts *
Bright flashes and sharp booms were reported in the skies over southwestern British Columbia and northwestern Washington early Thursday, and experts said a meteor or falling “space junk” may have been the source.
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Beagle 2 hasn't sent Yule message from Mars *
Tire-size spacecraft misses two chances to communicate with U.K. observatory.
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Beagle on course for Christmas landing on Mars *
After its six-month journey in space, tiny British-made probe breaks free from mother ship.
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Brazil mourns dead in space program disaster *
Smoke rose from a crater littered with twisted metal at Brazil's space centre Saturday, one day after a rocket explosion killed 21 people in the country's latest attempt to launch Latin America's first satellite.
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Breaking the food chains *
When Florence Wambugu lectured at the University of Toronto last week there was a security guard on hand, just in case. Sometimes demonstrators show up when she speaks. To them, this stately, eloquent Kenyan woman has a dangerous message.
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Breakthrough sees brain cells talk to microchip *
Study using snails raises long-range hopes for repairing sight and restoring memory.
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British-built landing craft set to seek signs of life on Mars *
Britain doesn't have its own space agency or any rocket capability, but a tiny, low-cost, British-built landing craft is to be blasted off today on a six-month trip through space toward Mars, in a bold effort to find out whether life exists there.
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Brits to send Beagle to Mars *
"Hey Rover...Fetch!"
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Burping stars clog universe with grime, scientists find *
Supernovas responsible for cosmic dust, the raw material for planets and life
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Bush on Mars: ‘Much remains for us to explore and to learn' *
'Much remains for us to explore and to learn' -- Bush lays out ambitious vision for base on moon, manned mission to Mars.
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Calusa Nature Center and Planetarium unveils spectacular new mural-sized image *
A new mural-sized image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is unveiled to the public at the Calusa Nature Center Planetarium, January 12. . .
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Canada to deliver first courier in space *
Multipurpose craft to be launched in 2007.
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Canada's Mars mission goes awry *
The first Canadian scientific instrument to travel beyond earth's orbit is in danger of becoming lost in space this week as it limps toward Mars on board a Japanese spacecraft.
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Canada's MOST does more for less *
It's an initial thumbs up for Canada's first space-based telescope.
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Canadian team will work on Mars landing mission *
State-of-the-art, Canadian-made meteorological instruments will be sent to Mars in 2007 as part of NASA's landing mission to study the red planet.
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Canadian telescope launched from Siberia *
The Canadian Space Agency announced yesterday that the microvariability and oscillation of stars telescope, dubbed MOST, had successfully lifted off from a base in Siberia, achieved orbit, and begun communicating with Earth.
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Civilian to conduct tests on trip to space station *
The next civilian to be rocketed into orbit at his own expense won't just be enjoying the ride.
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Close encounter of the Mars kind *
The Red Planet, with its canals, polar ice caps and volcanoes, has long held a fascination for Earthlings. Perhaps it's because it is both familiar and alien, DAN FALK suggests
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Clothes of the future *
There you are, unhappy, bored and too lazy even to flick on the television. What better way to lift your spirits than by slipping on a JoyDress...
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Columbia tragedy preventable, shuttle pioneer says *
Space program pioneers told Columbia investigators Wednesday that shuttle wings were never designed to be struck by anything and they suggested NASA should have taken the potential problem much more seriously.
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Computing about to take a giant step in tiny world *
The microprocessor industry as we know it today will be obsolete within the next 15 years. It faces fundamental limits in materials science and manufacturing technology. But if you've been losing sleep over this, rest easy. A new technology generation awaits: molecular electronics, part of the emerging wave of nanotechnology.
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D-Wave Systems gets a quantum leap of faith *
A Vancouver startup has won Silicon Valley backing in its quest to develop the next wave in computing, PETER KENNEDY writes
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Death marked by explosion of X-rays *
Astronomers reported Wednesday the first strong evidence of a supermassive black hole stretching, tearing apart and partially gobbling up a star.
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Deep Impact blasts off for Comet Tempel 1 *
For the first time, NASA is setting off on a collision course with a comet, in hopes of blasting a huge hole in the celestial snowball and gazing upon the original ingredients of the solar system preserved inside.
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Dying star leaves heavenly body *
Researchers at Canada's York University discover newly-formed ... something ... in wake of stellar explosion.
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Edmond Scientific's Scientifics *
Combined, Edmund Scientific and Science Kit boast over 100 years experience in the world of science -- experience they will use to make sure that the high standards set by Scientifics in the past will continue long into the future.
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Europe gives up on Beagle 2 *
European scientists signalled the end of their hunt for the missing Beagle 2 Mars lander on Wednesday by announcing an investigation into the disappearance of the British-built spacecraft.
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First Antarctic total solar eclipse in a century observed *
Scientists in Antarctica bundled up Monday against sub-freezing temperatures to watch the first total solar eclipse recorded on the icy continent in a century.
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First probe fails to contact Mars lander *
An initial attempt to contact Europe's first Mars lander failed Thursday, but its companion ship swung into orbit around the Red Planet and flight controllers were still optimistic about finding the tiny probe.
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Flower power missing, and Future Futures *
One of the more curious things in science happens when a scintillating advance is proclaimed by media everywhere and then, as far as the ordinary person can tell, vanishes.
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Forward, into the past *
Why are our imaginations retreating from science and space, and into fantasy? asks SPIDER ROBINSON
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Frankenfood: Science losing the agitprop battle *
There are now 19,600 references to Frankenfood in Google, and that number that does not capture the terms larger effectiveness as a way of demonizing genetically engineered food.
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Galileo given crash course with Jupiter *
Faced with the possibility of losing control of their space probe, scientists see only one safe option
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Genome decoding completed *
An international consortium of scientists announced Monday that it has completed the map of the human genetic code to an accuracy of 99.99 per cent and said the accomplishment opens a new era for biology and medicine.
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Golf really is for the birds *
At the risk of irritating the environmental activists out there, here is some fascinating research coming to the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union next month: It seems the game is good for birds.
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Hubble's star is fading *
The telescope has changed our understanding of how the universe works. However, with no more service missions planned, it will probably stop functioning by 2007. PAUL TAYLOR reports.
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Human genes fit on dime-size chip *
Scientists from two rival companies announced Thursday they had succeeded in placing vital bits of man's 30,000 genes on a chip the size of a dime, bringing so-called personalized medicine one step closer to reality.
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Insulin-cell transplant spares teen life of pain *
New Brunswick girl first Canadian child to undergo operation for rare condition.
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It takes your breath away *
Researchers are not in the habit of regaling outsiders with accounts of the often weird circumstances that get their inquiries kick-started, no matter how delicious the connections. But breaking with convention, we offer the strange link between the SARS epidemic and an explanation of why some climbers die while scaling Mount Everest.
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It's frozen, but it's water *
Europe's Mars Express orbiter has confirmed the presence of water in the form of ice on the planet's surface for the first time, the European Space Agency said Friday.
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It's the MOST: 'Humble' Canadian space telescope set for launch *
Numerous scientific fingers are being anxiously crossed and recrossed as astronomers from Toronto to Plesetsk, Russia, await news of the launch today of Canada's small and "humble" space telescope.
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Japanese Mars probe aborted to avoid crash *
The curse of Mars continues. A Japanese spacecraft carrying a $5-million Canadian instrument has failed to enter the orbit of the Red Planet and has been boosted into deep space to avoid a crash landing.
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Mars attracts! *
Astronauts reacted with jubilation Wednesday at new pictures of Mars taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, saying the planet's close pass to Earth enabled the Hubble to capture "quite spectacular" images.
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Mars attracts: Close pass has eyes on sky *
Stargazers flock to see Red Planet, which 'has never looked as good'
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Mars Express moved to search for Beagle 2 *
Mission controllers on Tuesday redirected Europe's Mars Express orbiter closer to the planet's poles, taking a crucial step to push it into a lower orbit where it will be able to listen for its missing Beagle 2 lander.
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Mars mission faces a hurdle: Astronauts may arrive paralyzed *
With the recent success of the rover Spirit, and the anticipated landing of Opportunity later this month, a manned mission to Mars is the talk of the planet.
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Mars Orbiter takes some close-ups *
Scientists have processed more than a dozen new photos taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which arrived at the Red Planet last month, including its first colour image.
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Mars: Did a river run through it? *
Orbiter confirms water-ice in polar cap, water vapour in Martian atmosphere
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Mission accomplished: NASA probe collides with comet *
A space probe hit its comet target late Sunday in a NASA-directed, Hollywood-style mission that scientists hope will reveal clues to how the solar system formed.
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Mission to Mars in Garneau's sights *
Canadian Space Agency investigating journey to Red Planet in 2011-2012.
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More signs of water on Mars *
NASA's Spirit rover uncovered more evidence there was once water on Mars, although not in the quantities its twin Opportunity found traces of halfway around the planet last month, the space agency said Thursday.
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Most of universe invisible, experts say *
Everything you can see – from a distant nebula to the family dog – makes up only about 5 per cent of the universe. The rest is mystery stuff – dark matter and dark energy.
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Music companies play Whack-a-Mole *
It hardly matters that Shawn Fanning is has a new music-downloading program. His legal, fee-based file-sharing network is going to be mauled by the very same monster he unleashed when he gave the world Napster.
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Musical tones to signal that the Beagle has landed *
Space scientists await message from British-built Mars landing craft.
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NASA delays Mars rover launch *
NASA delayed the launch of its second Mars rover until at least Monday after problems resurfaced Sunday with the cork insulation on the rover's rocket.
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NASA moves up Opportunity's first trip to Saturday *
NASA has moved up the date that Opportunity could roll from its lander to Saturday and said Thursday that the twin rover Spirit “will be perfect again” after repairs of software problems that crippled its mission.
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NASA poses $2-million lunar rocket challenge *
NASA said Friday it is sponsoring a $2 million (U.S.) contest to spur aerospace designers to build and demonstrate versatile rockets that may one day support a lunar mission.
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NASA safety panel resigns *
Nine experts on a NASA space safety advisory panel have resigned in the wake of sharp criticism from the Columbia accident investigation board and by Congress, the space agency said Tuesday.
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NASA scrubs shuttle launch *
With Tropical Storm Ernesto breathing down their necks, NASA managers gave up on a Tuesday space shuttle launch and prepared to move space shuttle Atlantis indoors.
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NASA spacecraft releases probe to collide with comet *
Scientists hope mission will offer the first peek inside one of the icy bodies.
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NASA's culture contributed to Columbia disaster: report *
'Overconfident' culture sacrificed safety to meet budgets and deadlines, report says
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New elements revealed *
Russian and American scientists say they have created two new "superheavy" elements that will reside at the extreme end of chemistry's periodic table of elements.
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New shuttle flaw found *
Investigators said Thursday they discovered a dangerous new threat to the United States' remaining three space shuttles, a fault affecting the heavy bolts that connect the powerful solid-rocket boosters to the external fuel tanks.
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New solar system may have its own Earth *
Astronomers say they have found a Jupiter-like body circling a distant star in a planetary system like ours, an intriguing discovery that raises the prospect of someday finding a planet resembling Earth.
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Omnipresence soul of next tech revolution *
MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte said the information revolution of the 1990s was about the replacement of atoms, in the form of physical media, by bits, in the form of digital media. The information revolution of the next decade will be about the convergence of atoms and bits, as every physical object -- indeed, every point in space -- will be capable of describing its presence, location and changing state.
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On another matter *
There may be nothing new under the sun, but something novel has definitely jumped out at physicists working in some of the coldest, darkest regions imaginable.
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Opportunity prepares to move out *
NASA released on Wednesday the first colour photographs taken by the rover Opportunity of layers of Martian rock that could indicate whether the outcropping on Mars was formed by water.
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Opportunity rolls onto Red Planet *
NASA's Opportunity successfully rolled off its lander and onto the rusty soil of Mars early Saturday, a week after the six-wheeled robot arrived on the Red Planet.
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Opportunity sends back Mars panorama *
NASA's Opportunity rover sent back its first 360-degree panoramic image of the surface of Mars on Monday, and extended a robotic arm that will touch the planet's surface.
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Opportunity to go for a drive *
NASA prepared the rover Opportunity to take its first real drive on Mars, a trip across pebbly soil that appears to be unlike anything else seen on the surface of the planet.
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Our crescent moon (photo) *
Earth’s atmosphere photographed by crew members on board the International Space Station from a vantage point about 360 kilometres above Earth
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Planetary Methuselah discovered *
A planet nearly as old as the universe has been discovered in the constellation Scorpius by a consortium of Canadian and U.S. astronomers.
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Pluto gets demoted as astronomers downsize solar system *
After a tumultuous week of clashing over the essence of the cosmos, the International Astronomical Union stripped Pluto of the planetary status it has held since its discovery in 1930.
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Private rocket reaches space *
Engine shuts down early but test pilot able to complete mission.
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Private rocket reaches space (Strauss) *
A privately funded rocket plane took the first step toward the wide-scale exploitation of space for tourism yesterday, taking off with a brilliant engine flash and landing flawlessly in California's Mojave desert.
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Probe's silence renews fears that Mars is 'Death Planet' *
Spooked scientists worry Beagle 2 yet another failed Red Planet mission.
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Probes to Mars will seek evidence of life *
The race to find evidence of life on Mars was to have begun in earnest this weekend with the launch of the first of two NASA robotic rovers that will head to the Red Planet to look for traces of water.
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Pulsars use gravity brakes, astronomer says *
Pulsars are the fastest spinning stars in the universe — rotating at hundreds of revolutions per second — and they could go twice as fast before flying apart. A new study by NASA suggests that these exotic stars are held together by gravitational radiation that puts on the brakes.
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Rare second lunar eclipse this year *
Tomorrow (Saturday) night, the long shadow of the Earth will sweep across the face of the moon, producing a lunar eclipse that should be visible across most of North America. If it isn't cloudy, sky watchers will see the bright full moon turn an eerie reddish colour.
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Real 'smart chip' developed, scientists say *
Researchers at the University of Calgary have found that nerve cells grown on a microchip can learn and memorize information which can be communicated to the brain.
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Real stellar news *
This week's excitement about Mars has been casting such a shadow over science reporting that you would think that nothing much else is happening, particularly in astronomy. Not so. Peeking out from the Martian umbra is newly released evidence showing how little we may understand about the formation of stars.
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Reeve's optimism renewed in Israel *
Actor Christopher Reeve said Wednesday that his optimism about recovering from a catastrophic spinal injury has been boosted by meeting disabled Israelis and the country's cutting-edge medical researchers.
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Rover catches a chill *
The Mars rover Spirit got moving again Thursday after an interruption caused by cold, and controllers figured out how to drive its twin, Opportunity, so that it won't slip on the sloping Martian terrain.
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Rover sets Mars travel mark *
The Spirit rover shattered a one-day distance record on Mars, rolling 20 metres across the planet's rocky surface, NASA said Tuesday.
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Satellite to collect data on ozone layer *
Effects of CFCs ban purpose of research
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Saturn gives us a ring *
'Fly me to the moon," Bart Howard wrote. ". . . Let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars."
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Sci-fi fans flock to Toronto *
A convention first established in the 1930s and devoted to all things interstellar touches down in Toronto
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Science: Sailing on a sunbeam *
In the interest of smooth stellar sailing, NASA has announced that it will help a small U.S. aerospace company to perfect a technology that would use sunbeams to travel to the stars.
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Scientists Claim Discovery of 10th Planet *
It's icy, rocky and bigger than Pluto. And according to scientists who found it orbiting the sun, it's the newest planet on our solar system's block.
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Scientists find new solar system *
90 light-years away, planet orbits a sun in constellation similar to our own
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Scientists work up a disappearing act *
The invisibility cloak that allowed Harry Potter to wander unseen through the halls of Hogwarts is no longer confined to the realm of fiction.
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Scotty ashes to be sent to space *
The ashes of late Star Trek actor James Doohan will be sent into space following his funeral service.
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Screening for asteroids *
A volunteer in an astronomy project scrolled through thousands of telescope images on the Internet and discovered an asteroid by noticing its telltale streaks.
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Shape of proteins holds key to treating diseases *
The key to treating many deadly diseases -- including cancer and Parkinson's disease -- may lie in finding drugs to block the errant proteins that can wreak havoc in the human body.
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Space mission unveils Titan's strange face *
The Cassini spacecraft has sent back the best images scientists have ever seen of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan, which is wrapped in a thick orange atmosphere.
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SpaceShipOne chases the X Prize *
Aviation enthusiasts began gathering Sunday in the high desert in hopes of seeing the first flight into space by a privately developed, manned rocket.
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Stargazers spellbound by Venus transit *
When scientists first worked out the Earth's distance from the sun, the transit of Venus was crucial. “This sight is by far the noblest astronomy offers,” Edmond Halley, of comet fame, declared in 1691.
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Stargazers thrilled as Red Planet looms *
The last time Mars drew so close to Earth, woolly mammoths, Neanderthals roamed
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Supernova sheds light on stellar theory *
Radio signals emanating from remains of star 30 million light years away prove how black holes and neutron stars form.
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The year ends with a pop *
It sometimes seems as if the whole purpose of science is to explain how weird stuff you never heard of works.
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Thinkers return to N.S. to study world's threats *
A group of 200 international scientists, academics and ardent opponents of nuclear weapons is pondering the possibility of global destruction in Halifax this week -- before heading to the scenic shores of the Nova Scotia village of Pugwash where the movement began in 1955.
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Two Alberta researchers shed light on electric idea *
Canadian researchers have discovered a new way to generate electricity -- something that nobody in the scientific world has been able to accomplish since Michael Faraday in 1839.
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U.S. team performs three simultaneous transplants *
Johns Hopkins University surgeons performed three simultaneous kidney transplants in a complex piece of medical choreography that had nurses rushing organs in labelled coolers among six operating rooms.
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Venezuelans name planet after rain god *
Huya, the rain god in Venezuelan Wayuu Indian culture, has been granted a place beside his counterparts Jupiter, Mars and Venus.
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VSM on cutting edge of safer brain surgery *
MEG machines offer top accuracy in treating tumours, damaged areas.
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Wanted: Some place like home *
Last week's Methuselah disclosure shows we're getting pretty good at finding big, inhospitable spots in the galaxy. But what about planets more like Earth, destinations worth the trip? NASA is on the case, DAN FALK reports.
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Water — and life — on Mars? *
An area of Mars once not only had water but was "drenched" in it, U.S. scientists announced yesterday, reinforcing the possibility that life existed on the Red Planet.
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What's next for Mars? *
Have I been the only one to feel endlessly parental whenever the words Mars Spirit Rover are uttered? Up until now, the entire NASA mission has felt as much like childbirth as rocket science.
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When meat is not murder *
Would you eat steak if it had been grown in a petri dish? It is the ultimate conundrum for vegetarians who think that meat is murder: a revolution in processed food that will see fresh meat grown from animal cells without a single cow, sheep or pig being killed.
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White knuckles, 'chicken soup,' a pink sky *
When the Spirit rover sent its first colour pictures of Mars this week, it took me back 28 years to another day and another robot snapping pictures.
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Young sun-like star found *
Using two linked telescopes that act as a single high-powered lens, astronomers have observed a young star thought to be more like the one in our own solar system than similar celestial bodies observed in the past.
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Drop-outs granted patents for hydrogen production *
Two cousins discover inexpensive method to produce non-polluting gas using discarded aluminum cans and Drano.
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It'll grow back *
Scientists are studying newts, starfish and even some mice, all of which can regenerate lost or damaged body parts, reports ANNE McILROY. The question is, can they teach humans a genetic trick or two?
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