Newsmakers 2012: Higgs & Kisses
Science’s big bet paid off when the ‘God particle’ was discovered courtesy of the monstrous Hadron Collider
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Kate Lunau
Kate Lunau is a health and science writer at Maclean’s Magazine, who previously reported for the Montreal Gazette. She’s the recipient of several journalism awards, including the 2014 Yves Fortier Earth Science Journalism Award, and has been nominated for two National Magazine Awards. Like Elon Musk, she hopes to retire on Mars.
The biggest, craziest, gee-whizziest science stories of 2012
Science writer Kate Lunau picks her favourite stories of the year
A "mini Nile river" spotted on Saturn’s moon
Scientists have spotted a "mini Nile river" on the surface of Titan , Saturn’s largest moon, flowing over 400 km from its...
Astronaut Chris Hadfield readies for mission of a lifetime
Hadfield will become the first Canadian to command the International Space Station
3D-printed AR-15 rifle fires six rounds
Defense Distributed tests ’fully printable firearm’
First analysis of Martian soil turns up complex chemicals
Kate Lunau on what Curiosity has — and has not — found
Mensa babies
Younger and younger children are getting IQ tests. Kate Lunau follows one family’s journey into the land of the supersmart
Review: The Dead of Winter
A homeless woman lies freezing near the entrance of a Montreal parking garage, warmed by crumpled-up newspapers and a Salvation...
Rogue planet spotted floating in space
CFBDSIR2149 was spotted with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea
Burger, please, and a glass of Beaujolais
How to survive the restaurant meal’s health horrors: slow down