Mech-tacular racing At 4.5 metres (15 feet) tall and weighing 4,000 kilograms (9,000 pounds) a mechanical suit may become an athlete uniform of the future. A company in Vancouver, British Columbia is blending sports and robotics in a very big … Continue reading Mech-tacular racing
Featured Image: Astronaut and Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency displays Extra Dwarf Pak Choi plants growing aboard the International Space Station. Explorers have known for centuries that bringing along a little plant life … Continue reading Galactic green thumbs
Over one hundred years ago British composer Gustav Holst debuted an orchestral masterpiece in which the planets were each represented by a piece of classical music. Since its introduction in 1918 Holst’s The Planets has acted as a romantic soundtrack … Continue reading Symphony in Space
The sun rises in the morning, bringing light and heat to another summer day. You can feel it warm your skin almost immediately yet the effect you are experiencing may have been in the works for as long as 100,000 … Continue reading Solar energy
The mesosphere may be one of the most mysterious layers of the Earth’s atmosphere but there is a good chance you have witnessed its power with your own eyes. If you have seen shooting stars burn brightly, you’ve peered into … Continue reading The Mesosphere
In the Dark Two kilometres below the earth in a mine in Northern Ontario two very different sets of explorers carry out vastly different searches. There are miners extracting the nickel the area is famous for, and scientists – what … Continue reading In the Dark
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