Simon Fraser University (SFU) announced a partnership with Ontario’s Sheridan College and three Canadian companies (Terrella Energy Systems, Alpha Technologies, and Westport Innovations) in a research ...

Institutional insularity is a problem one finds everywhere. Interestingly, very few people see it that way due in large part to self-reinforcing loopbacks. Take universities for example and more ...

The research comes from Korea’s Institute of Basic Science and was announced in a March 22, 2016 news article by Lee Chi-dong for Yonhap News Agency,. A team of South Korean scientists announced ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research, Pittsburgh (Philadelphia, US) have taken capacitive sensing, used for touchscreens such as smartphones, and added new capabilities. From ...

There were hints even while it was happening that the ‘Green Revolution’ of the 1960s was not all it was touted to be. (For those who haven’t come across the term before, the Green Revolution was a ...

Sometimes the European Union (EU) projects make my head spin and this is one of those times. From a June 6, 2013 news item on Nanowerk (Note: Links have been removed),. The European Technology ...

For the second time in a row, Vancouver’s (Canada) Café Scientifique is at Yagger’s Downtown (433 W. Pender), which is hosting the upcoming August 2016 Café Scientifique talk. From the August 24, 2016 ...

I received (via email) a December 11, 2017 notice from the Canadian Science Policy Centre that the 2017 Proceedings for the ninth annual conference (Nov. 1 – 3, 2017 in Ottawa, Canada) can now be ...

Generations of Vancouverites have enjoyed planetary light shows at the HR MacMillan Space Centre (still popularly known as the planetarium) powered by Harold, a Zeiss Universal Mark III planetarium.

I cannot tell you the joy this news gives me. From the Dec. 6, 2011 news item on Nanowerk, Eyeglasses need never again to be cleaned, and dirty windscreens are a thing of the past! Researchers at the ...

Exciting news from the National Film Board of Canada arrived in my mailbox this morning (Monday, Apr. 22, 2013), The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) have teamed ...

Researchers at Hong Kong Polytechnic University have something for anyone who has ever dreamed of getting a face mask that offers protection from the finest of pollutant particles, according to a May ...