The biggest, craziest, gee-whizziest science stories of 2012
Science writer Kate Lunau picks her favourite stories of the year
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’We have liftoff! God Speed @Cmdr_Hadfield!’
Ten, nine, eight ... tweet: Astronaut chronicles countdown to space
Astronaut Chris Hadfield readies for mission of a lifetime
Hadfield will become the first Canadian to command the International Space Station
Found: Alberta’s feathered dinosaurs
University of Calgary researchers dug up an ostrich-like dino that famously appeared in ’Jurassic Park’
Rocket Man: a photo tour of NASA’s Johnson Space Centre with Chris Hadfield
From space food to space suits to, um, space toilets
You know virtual reality helmets? I tried one on.
Kate Lunau floats around on the virtual International Space Station
What happens to an astronaut’s heart during long space travel?
Kate Lunau shadows astronaut Chris Hadfield at the Johnson Space Center
Coming up today at the Johnson Space Center: Why does the heart shrink in space?
Kate Lunau gets ready to hang out with Chris Hadfield
The health story we’ve been missing
A bad health system is the thing that can neutralize a good treatment
Why the Higgs boson discovery changed everything
Maclean’s archives: A special report from the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland