Ivan Semeniuk

Is this the moment Canada gets serious about science and the economy? The federal budget includes $1.7-billion to attract international researchers and support Canadian R&D and IP protections

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University of Alberta’s David Wishart wins top Canadian science prize

How ‘Frosty,’ a rhino fossil dug up in Nunavut, complicates the story of how mammals roamed the Earth Researchers, comparing bones from Canada’s High Arctic with European species, rethink how prehistoric life went from continent to continent

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Neutrino results offer possible clue as to why matter exists Two research teams that study neutrinos, the featherweights of the particle world, published their results in Nature this week

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Clearest signal yet rattles gravitational wave detector at risk from Trump budget cut Signal confirms Einstein’s theory of general relativity

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UBC experiment aims to reignite cold fusion nuclear quest Scientists are split on the significance of the Thunderbird reactor, the first verified case of electrochemically enhanced nuclear fusion

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Concordia University student rocket makes history but falls short of reaching space Starsailor marks first ever student-led launch to receive approval from Transport Canada and first attempted space launch in country since 1998

For years, the notion that Canada should develop its own domestic space launch capability has been met with "we don't do that here." Today a group of Concordia engineering students came closer than anyone else this century to proving the naysayers wrong. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

For Canada, science and the world, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel moment signals a pivotal shift For the first time, four Nobel laureates, including Canada’s Geoffrey Hinton, are being honoured for work directly related to artificial intelligence. If anyone still needed a sign that AI has arrived...

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Marrying science and politics: The Canadian conference where politicos and researchers swap ideas A decade ago, the conference’s creator, Mehrdad Hariri, first began dreaming of a public forum in Canada where scientists and policy-makers could meet

I wrote this story back when the Canadian Science Policy Conference turned 10. Now the meeting is 16 and just as necessary and important a forum as ever. #CSPC2024
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