ARPICO (Society of Italian Researchers and Professionals in Western Canada) is offering a scholarship (deadline Mar. 31, 2014) for Canadian students according to its Feb. 14, 2014 announcement, ARPICO ...

Two researchers from Ontario’s Queen’s University (Canada) have published a paper about research which could lead to self-cleaning windows although other applications seem more likely in the ...

I’ve often wondered where Canada is with regard to graphene research and commercialization. At least one of my questions has been partly answered by the formation of a new graphene foundation. from an ...

Glorious, isn’t it? Since it’s Friday, I’ve decided to treat myself and write about collective nouns and animals. Here are more: a coalition of cheetahs a herd of chamois an intrusion of cockroaches ...

This is the final commentary on the report titled, (INVESTING IN CANADA’S FUTURE; Strengthening the Foundations of Canadian Research). Part 1 of my commentary having provided some introductory ...

The game is described as follows: “The ice caps are melting, you have to rebuild them one water molecule at a time! Waterfall is a simple, fun, and highly addictive game that teaches you about ice and ...

I have a couple of announcements. First, I finally took the plunge and started a Twitter feed here. Once I figure how to put some sort of click-through or even the feed onto this site I will do it.

Fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza has been making the media rounds lately about nanotechnology-enabled textiles/clothing. From the August 2, 2011 article by Jill Colvin for DNAinfo.com, Imagine clothes ...

Ted Sargent, Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology, University of Toronto, has been mentioned here a number of times regarding his work on solar cells. Here are a few of the mostly recent postings ...

I have received support to attend the 2012 Canadian Science Policy Conference in Calgary! Thank you to the folks who are helping me get there and to everyone who helped with suggestions and retweets ...

Thanks to the Nov. 7, 2011 posting on the Foresight Institute blog, I’ve found Petman, Last month we noted the impressive progress achieved by Boston Dynamics’ AlphaDog project to develop a robot ...

The goal of the Inclusive Audiences team is to increase professional and institutional capacity to effectively engage underserved and underrepresented audiences, including girls, bilingual audiences, ...