Alanna Mitchell
What the world’s most powerful telescope is teaching us about the universe
The James Webb telescope is allowing astronomers to time-travel into our deep, dark past
The beetle scientist on a mission to name the world’s most beguiling bugs
Pat Bouchard wants to make sure each and every species of Coleoptera is properly identified
How a grieving mother helped create a DNA database to identify Canada’s missing
After Judy Peterson’s daughter disappeared 27 years ago, she poured herself into a campaign to create the more integrated, country-wide DNA database. Here’s how it led to a Quebec mother finding her son.
Inside Frank Plummer’s brain
The legendary scientist turned to highly experimental deep brain stimulation to treat his own alcoholism. He’d devoted his whole life to science, he joked. Why not his brain, too? The research he took part in is revolutionizing how we treat the world’s most stigmatized illnesses.
What will it take to save the ocean from unrelenting human harm?
One of the world’s most famous marine ecologists dials back his doomsday predictions and tries optimism
The lush forests of … Antarctica?
A discovery that shows life 90 million years ago near the South Pole may also point to what lies ahead
This young Canadian scientist has found 21 new planets—and counting
Inspired by Star Trek to pursue astronomy, 26-year-old Michelle Kunimoto is one of the whip-smart young scientists who just might help us find the first evidence of extraterrestrial life
How climate change is threatening wine grapes
Climate change patterns show wine-growing regions will become inhospitable to many varieties of grapes
Lucy Maud Montgomery’s agonizing drug addiction
Diaries show the disastrous extent of the ‘Anne of Green Gables’ author’s addiction to prescription drugs, as well as parallels to our modern-day opioid crisis
Why it’s time for Canada to introduce self-testing HIV kits
New cases of HIV are rising dramatically in Canada. And self-testing kits are nearly as easy to use as a home pregnancy test.
Quantum computing could solve problems we don’t even know we have
After decades of experimentation, billions of dollars in investment across the globe and gut-wrenching uncertainty about whether it was even physically possible, we’ve proven a quantum computer can work
Sockeye salmon stocks are crashing. Long-lost notebooks saw it coming.
The detailed field journals, lost for decades, now reveal today’s salmon stocks are in dramatically worse shape than imagined