Robots are dying to save Fukushima so people don’t have to The robots remain the only hope of decommissioning the devastated nuclear reactors. Five years after the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant, radiation levels remain so high that some cleanup robots that took years to build are dying before they can carry out their…
Seattle, USA : Metro buses test alarms to improve pedestrian safety In an experiment to reduce lethal crashes involving pedestrians, Washington state transit agencies have equipped 38 buses with dashboard alarms that flash when people are walking in the driver’s blind spots. This measure was taken to reduce the averaged 24 bus-pedestrian crashes a year over…
Florida Department of Health launches new HIV Data Center In an effort to increase public awareness of the status of HIV in Florida, the Department of Health has launched a new HIV Data Center that clearly explains the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) information gathering and CDC’s deduplication processes. Florida has developed one of the…
Montreal’s new light-rail train network will be the 3rd largest of its kind It will be the biggest transit project since the Montreal métro, but this one will be built and mostly funded by a pension fund. Answering decades of demands for an airport link from downtown, the $5.5-billion Réseau électrique métropolitain will be a vast network linking…
Des chercheurs du National Cancer Institute ont fait une découverte étonnante et porteuse d’espoir dans la lutte contre le sida: des protéines anti-VIH puissantes ont été trouvées dans un corail des eaux de la côte du nord de l’Australie. Ces protéines anti-VIH , appelées cnidarins, ont été découvertes parmi des milliers d’échantillons de produits naturels…
Thomas Ribeiro, 15 ans et élève de quatrième secondaire à l’école Laval Senior Academy, a inventé une machine pour freiner les émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Depuis deux ans, le jeune homme planche sur une invention de son cru : une « super-usine » capable de produire de l’énergie en brûlant du CO2 et du méthane,…
La première puissance économique d’Afrique, après avoir placé des satellites en orbite, va bientôt expédier des hommes dans l’espace. Fort de son envie de mettre sur pieds une industrie spatiale de classe mondiale, le Nigeria s’apprête à envoyer son premier astronaute dans l’espace d’ici 2030. Des discussions sont à l’œuvre entre l’agence spatiale nigériane et…
8 fascinating scientific breakthroughs from Montréal With 4 world-class universities, Montréal is one of the most innovative research hubs in North America. The city was recently voted the #1 place in North America to be a student, largely because of the pioneering research culture. Here is 8 of some cutting edge scientific breakthroughs (or simply fascinating research…
Experts are predicting that climate change will eventually destroy the Australia’s Great Barrier Reef entirely. But researchers have now identified corals hiding in plain sight that are not only surviving increased acidification and warming temperatures, but appear to be thriving in them. As ocean temperatures rise, many kinds of corals can shed the symbiotic algae living…
The Great Lakes are polluted with innumerable microbeads, miniscule pieces of plastic most commonly found in hygiene products such as toothpastes, face washes and body scrubs. Just half a millimetre, they’re too small to be picked up by most filtration systems. To try to end this micropolution, Nine Grade 11 and 12 students at Gordon…