NewsGood news, bad news: July 8 - July 14, 2011South Sudan celebrates the birth of a nation, while Ontario struggles to contain a C. difficile outbreak
BooksThe boyfriend’s lunatic heistThad Roberts stole 100 pieces of the moon from NASA, all to impress a woman
GeneralAstronauts carry out final shuttle-based spacewalkNASA’s Fossum and Garan to retrieve failed pump from ISS
CanadaWhy it’s the best time ever to be a CanadianBy many global measures we are a blessed bastion of privilege, peace, freedom—and big roomy houses
NewsGood news, bad news: May 5-12, 2011The RCMP officers involved in Robert Dziekanski’s death face perjury charges, while scientists prove Einstein was right
NewsThis week: NewsmakersPrince Andrew’s friends in all the wrong places, Natalie Portman just can’t win, and adios, Glenn Beck?
GeneralHow did NASA find 1200 new planets anyway?Reporter Kate Lunau on how the Kepler telescope works
TechnologyThe biggest story in the universeThe discoveries are coming so fast—1,235 new planets—that the universe as we knew it is history