If you’re looking for a fun (but dangerous – wear gloves and eye protection!!) science experiment to do at home, here’s a good one. Simply stir drain cleaner...
BB contributor and DIY science hacker Ariel Waldmnan recently went on a research expedition to Antarctica to study microscopic extremophiles under the ice. She made a great...
In my latest podcast (MP3), I read my Globe and Mail editorial, Science fiction and the unforeseeable future: In the 2020s, let’s imagine better things, where I reflect on...
Wanda Diaz Merced is an astronomer at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Office for Astronomy Outreach in Mitaka, Japan. Diaz Merced is blind and uses a technique to...
The editors of Canada’s Globe and Mail asked me to reflect on what science fiction can tell us about the 2020s for their end-of-the-decade package; I wrote about how...