Even with a light dusting of snow this past week, spring continues its slow approach here in the heart of the valley. We have a stretch of clear blue skies this week, which should be more than enough to get gardeners and hikers alike out into the world. This coming week will see the beginning…

A journal about journaling? In this issue, John Muir Laws gets meta.

Anthony Morgan is having a bad hair day. Sarika Cullis-Suzuki is wondering how to fight the frizz. And many of us can relate.  A 2018 survey by InStyle magazine found that 75 per cent of women consider hair important to their well-being. In a 2005 study of European men, over 70 per cent reported hair…

Canadians spend more than $2 billion a year on hair care products and salons. We are obsessed with our hair.  In Hairy Tales, a documentary from The Nature of Things, co-hosts Sarika Cullis-Suzuki and Anthony Morgan meet doctors, geneticists, leading researchers and even a Guinness World Record holder for the heaviest weight lifted with hair…

NEWS RELEASESCIENCE NORTH*********************Registration for Science North Summer Science Camps is now open in Barrie and surrounding areas including Orillia and Midland. As well as 30+ additional communities across Northern Ontario. Since 1987, Science North has offered fun, unique, and educational summer science camp experiences to over 30,000 children ages 4–14 across Ontario! This year is no different as…

A stone tool from the archaeological site of Korolevo in western Ukraine.Credit: Roman Garba Stone tools found in western Ukraine date to roughly 1.4 million years ago1, archaeologists say. That means the tools are the oldest known artefacts in Europe made by ancient humans and offer insight into how and when our early relatives first…

AI-run labs have arrived — such as this one in Suzhou, China.Credit: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg/Getty Scientists of all stripes are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) — from developing ‘self-driving’ laboratories, in which robots and algorithms work together to devise and conduct experiments, to replacing human participants in social-science experiments with bots1. Many downsides of AI systems have…

Abstract Companies can support governments in bridging the emissions gap between current policies and the Paris goals by adhering to voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets that align with or surpass those implied by domestic policies. To this end, we assessed the potential impact of EU companies that set targets through the Science Based…