*Dr Cullen was aboard the Canadian Coast Guard ship Amundsen when it was photographed to be on the $50 bill. Sadly Dr Cullen's research equipment did not make the final edit! […]
Yusuf Altintas, The University of British Columbia Thursday November 20, 2014 In manufacturing, even the slightest error in cutting, or "machining", a part can cost thousands of dollars in materials […]
Denis Lavoie, Natural Resources Canada Tuesday February 3, 2015 The search for oil and gas is taking us to new settings on the Canadian landscape, testing the limits of our […]
Ronald Stewart, University of Manitoba Daniel Scott, University of Waterloo Thursday March 26, 2015 In Canada and around the world, extreme weather phenomena are becoming more frequent and more damaging. […]
Gerry Wright, McMaster University Thursday April 23, 2015 As near daily headlines warn us, the rise of drug resistant microbes, or “superbugs”, – is impacting public health. We need antibiotics […]
Chistopher Burn, Carleton University Thursday February 4, 2016 Climate change is the talk of the town these days. Not a day goes by without news about its effects. Much attention […]
Ted Sargent, University of Toronto Thursday February 26, 2015 Humankind consumes electrical power at an average annual rate of 15 Terawatts (trillions watts). We meet this demand primarily by burning […]
Scott Knight, Royal Military College of Canada Thursday, March 10, 2016 Although cyber security regularly makes news headlines, the resulting discussions often fail to make crucial distinctions between cyber-crime, cyber-espionage […]
Chris Eliasmith, University of Waterloo Jeudi, le 14 avril 2016 Large-scale brain models have become the centerpiece of many international "big science" projects. At the University of Waterloo, Chris Eliasmith […]
Jean Caron, Université Laval Thursday May 12, 2016 Agriculture today faces increasing challenges ranging from extreme weather and soil and water depletion to the relentless conversion of food land to […]
Kenneth Lee, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Thursday June 9, 2016 Even with a concerted global effort to replace carbon fuels with other energy sources, oil continues to […]
Mike Flannigan, University of Alberta Thursday September 29, 2016 Every year, for millennia, thousands of small fires and dozens of large ones break out in Canada’s boreal forest. This will […]
