Category Archives: Science/Environment
Digital Movies: Full Stream Ahead
Netflix Price: $7.99 per month Six words or less: Netflix is awesome I actually had a Netflix account once, but found the selection lacking and eventually cancelled the subscription. The task of writing this review made a good excuse to … Continue reading
Filed under Entertainment, Journalism, Print, Science/Environment, Toronto Star
The $150 robot revolution
How Microsoft’s affordable Kinect video game system is changing the world of advanced robotics A sudden gust of wind blew a six-bladed, remote-controlled helicopter over a white bus half buried in bricks and busted slabs of concrete. Jimmy Tran, a … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, Maclean's, Print, Science/Environment
Weighing a new option
As with so many yo-yo dieters, the weight of a kilogram is constantly in flux—at least at an atomic level. But Ottawa researchers are hoping to get the kilo’s waistline permanently in check by changing how it’s measured. The … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, Maclean's, National, Print, Science/Environment
Space police
A group of skywatchers set their sights on secret space missions—including a U.S. Air Force project An orbiting weapons platform, a spy plane, or a decade-old, billion-dollar money pit. The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B space planes are a cloak-and-dagger project, … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, Maclean's, Print, Science/Environment, Society
Never say die
The world’s oceans are being infested with a specific species of jellyfish—one that can potentially live forever. “We’re facing a worldwide silent invasion,” says Maria Pia Miglietta, a biology researcher at Pennsylvania State University. What makes this particular creature—the Turritopsis … Continue reading
Filed under Journalism, Maclean's, Print, Science/Environment, Society
