A November 29, 2024 Canadian Light Source (CLS) news release (also received via email) by Brian Owens describes research that could benefit people who don’t know they have the beginning signs of osteoarthritis, An imaging technique currently available only at synchrotrons like the Canadian Light Source at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) could one day...

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The 2024 Canadian federal budget – Fairness for Every Generation (or if you want to see the front page, Budget 2024 – Fairness for Every Generation and then go to Go View the Budget for the table of contents) was announced in April 2024. So, I’m very late with this posting. There weren’t too many...

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Ingenium (portfolio name for Canada Science and Technology Museum, Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, and Canada Aviation and Space Museum) sent out a November 28, 2024 announcement about it holiday season events (received via email), This winter break, put the “Wonder” in Winter Wonderland! This winter break, create unforgettable family memories at our three museums,...

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The headline for a September 12, 2024 Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) press release (also on EurekAlert but published September 11, 2024) says it all but first, here’s an image showing off the prosthesis, Caption: C055800371.png: Experimental tests on robotic prosthesis: clothespin. Credit: © 2024 Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Here’s the press release,...

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It’s been a while since BC-based Lomiko Metals has rated more than a passing mention here. Back in June 2024 the company experienced a rough patch regarding their plans to mine for graphite in one of their Québec mines, from a June 9, 2024 article by Joe Bongiorno for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) news online,...

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Pollinator Pathmaker Eden Project Edition. Photo Royston Hunt. Courtesy Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg Ltd I suppose you could call this a kind of citizen science as well as an art project. A September 11, 2024 news item on phys.org describes a new scientific art project designed for insects, Gardens can become “living artworks” to help prevent...

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Tactile technology is also known as haptic technology and you’ll find there are more names for this technology in a September 9, 2024 Institute for Basic Science (IBS) press release (also on EurekAlert) about some of the latest research from Korea, A virtual haptic implementation technology that allows all users to experience the same tactile...

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A September 10, 2024 news item on ScienceDaily provides a technical explanation of how memristors, without a power source, can retain information, Phase separation, when molecules part like oil and water, works alongside oxygen diffusion to help memristors — electrical components that store information using electrical resistance — retain information even after the power is...

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A September 7, 2024 news item on phys.org offers some intriguing information about nanoscale silver and its self-healing abilities, Note: A link has been removed, As an innovative concept in materials science and engineering, the inspiration for self-healing materials comes from living organisms that have the innate ability to self-heal. Along this line, the search...

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A September 4, 2024 news item on ScienceDaily announced some research in Switzerland that improves on electrodes used in brain implants, e.g., like Elon Musk’s company, Neuralink, Neurostimulators, also known as brain pacemakers, send electrical impulses to specific areas of the brain via special electrodes. It is estimated that some 200,000 people worldwide are now...

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