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Keep Your Eyes On the Skies in 2024
There's something you can do about this total eclipse of the sun: watch it on April 8! But that's not the only astronomical excitement this year. Get the full story Keep Your Eyes On the Skies in 2024
Cookietaxis
Canada’s Bermuda Triangle
The magnetism of the north and south poles are what make a compass work. But the pull of those poles is affected by the ground beneath your feet. WHY?A magnetic anomaly at the eastern tip of Lake Ontario means that a compass reading there may be wrong by as much as 16° in either direction—east...
Vacation is not lost time
By Anna Crofts, a PhD student at l’Université de Sherbrooke Five years ago, I wrote a blog reflecting on the struggles of taking vacations during graduate school. At the time, I was in the final few months of my master’s degree, and now I am in the home stretch of my doctorate degree. I can...
Interspecific competition
This is Why … Size Matters
Cleo, my furry sheepdog (right), eats two scoops of kibble every morning while her smaller sister, Molly, only eats one. That makes sense at first glance when you see them together: Cleo is much bigger than Molly so needs more fuel in the tank. But, if we want to be a bit more precise, Cleo...
Auditory ornithology
Spatial cognition
Tracking Down Track Fossils on les Iles de-la-Madeleine
By Louis-Philippe Bateman, PhD student at McGill University A long time ago, in the Late Paleozoic era, before humans, mammals, and even dinosaurs roamed the Earth, eastern Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces were part of a huge arid basin near the Equator. Despite the unforgiving landscape, a variety of reptiles, amphibians, arthropods, and plants used...