Does spilled pipeline bitumen sink or float?A scientist seeks to answer this pressing environmental question amid a national pipeline debate
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Newsmakers: Elon Musk and his rocket planOur 2016 Newsmakers: Have Elon Musk’s visionary ideas gotten ahead of his ability to deliver? Don’t bet on it.
Why Canadians should care about Facebook’s fake news problemAs the stakes in politics skyrocket, both here and in the U.S., we all need to be better readers
How to treat a Twitter trollA study looking for a remedy for abusive Twitter users reveals their psychology, and explains what their vitriol has in common with gang signs
Why we must now grapple with the distant future of driverless carsOur editorial: A world with driverless cars may be far-off. But we need to consider it today, so we can better navigate our present
The dark irony behind Facebook’s fake news problemIn exchange for fake news, Facebook users handed over the only thing they still retain that has value in this new economy—not their labour, but their data
Google predicted Donald Trump would win the electionThe final tally from Google searches for Trump and Clinton is downright eerie in how close it came to predicting Donald Trump’s surprise victory
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Why the death of Vine is about more than just the end of an appPeople of colour embraced Vine. But when corporate parent Twitter chose bullies over those who made its platform work, they left.