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One breath away from diagnosing disease
Friday, February 3, 2012 3:30:00 PM CST
Researchers are closing in on commercially-viable devices to detect cancers by analyzing human breath
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Wastewater gains appeal as treatment improves, resources run dry
Thursday, February 2, 2012 8:04:00 PM CST
Cities grappling with water shortages are weighing the value of reusing wastewater, while studies debunk health fears linked to treated effluent
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Despite technical problems, NASA confident about Russian manned rockets
Thursday, February 2, 2012 5:58:00 PM CST
NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia's manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program.
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Video: First footage of far side of the moon captured
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 8:41:00 PM CST
A spacecraft orbiting the moon has captured the first video of the lunar far side that people on Earth can't see. The video was captured by one of NASA's twin Grail probes using MoonKAM, a camera which will eventually be used by students.
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Crab-like robot endoscope built to fight stomach cancer
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 9:48:00 AM CST
Stomach, or gastric, cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide and is particularly common in east Asia
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On a mission to help rebuild public trust in leadership
Sunday, January 29, 2012 6:20:00 PM CST
Following 2008, ARC Financial’s Mac Van Wielingen saw a need to address an ethical void at the core of the crisis
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Switch off the lights, here comes the sun
Friday, January 27, 2012 3:46:00 PM CST
Transporting natural sunlight into the interior of buildings could one day make electric lighting a thing of the past
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ARC team donate $9.5-million to Haskayne business school
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:00:00 AM CST
Gift designated to create centre at University of Calgary for leadership and ethics teaching, research
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Team led by ROM scientist unearths oldest dinosaur nursery
Monday, January 23, 2012 8:31:00 PM CST
Nesting sites indicate they were used by several families at once, over and over again
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Strongest solar storm since 2005 hitting Earth
Monday, January 23, 2012 7:18:00 PM CST
The sun is bombarding Earth with radiation from the biggest solar storm in more than six years with more to come from the fast-moving eruption.
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A lifetime pressed to a telescope building an archive of epic discoveries
Friday, January 20, 2012 9:42:00 PM CST
David Levy, discoverer of the 20th century’s most celebrated comet, is being honoured for a half century spent studying the skies, Ingrid Peritz reports.
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The discoveries of Canada's most famous amateur astronomer
Friday, January 20, 2012 9:39:00 PM CST
David Levy is credited with discovering 23 comets, either independently or with Gene and Carolyn S. Shoemaker, but it was their discovery in March 1993, of what became known as Shoemaker-Levy 9, that cemented his place in astronomy history.
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Radioactive medicine without the nuclear headache
Friday, January 20, 2012 3:16:00 PM CST
A new generation of atom smasher look set to solve our medical isotope problem - if they can produce enough to replace the output of aging reactors
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Mars rocks fell in Africa last July
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 9:42:00 AM CST
Meteorites believed to be debris from collision that occurred millions of years ago
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Russian space probe crashes into Pacific Ocean: reports
Sunday, January 15, 2012 8:27:00 AM CST
The probe, launched in November, was designed to travel to a Mars moon but became trapped in Earth’s orbit