From Our Own Borealis Blog

Science: A Love Lost and Found

Over the next few weeks, Science Borealis is excited to feature a series of stories developed for a story-telling event […]

Continue reading


Blog Feeds

Your garden as a ‘living artwork’ for insects

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...

Continue reading


Tactile technology for VR (virtual reality) and AR (augmented reality) users

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...

Continue reading


How memristors retain information without a power source? A mystery solved

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...

Continue reading


Lay Science Writing Competition 2024: Research ensures innovation and safety go hand in hand for stem cell transplantation

Lay Science Writing Competition 2024: Research ensures innovation and safety go hand in hand for stem cell transplantation Transplantation Organs and Tissues Plasma Stem Cells Transfusion Blood Thursday, November 21, 2024 Drs. Chaahat Singh & Giorgia Caspani Our partnership with the Centre for Blood Research (CBR) at the University of British Columbia is helping to...

Continue reading