CanadaNew footage reveals what narwhals actually use their tusks forBefore this new video evidence, Canadian scientists could only theorize the purposes behind the narwhal’s iconic tusk.
BooksThis neuroscientist says your sense of free will is an illusionThe acclaimed author and neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky explains the deep biological roots of human behaviour, from racism to religion to romance
MoviesIs Bill Nye a science guy—or is he wearing a science guise?Maybe he won’t save the world. But with a new doc and Netflix show, the Science Guy is, at the very least, saving his career
SocietyCanada’s science minister speaks out on women in STEMKirsty Duncan is considering quotas to ensure women land top research posts. Is the Trudeau government on board?
ScienceCanada is not immune to its own scientific dark agesBefore Canada gets too smug about its openness to science, it’s worth remembering our own history of being on the wrong side of scientific thinking
OttawaWant better science? Listen to scientists.David Naylor’s report on science research has some key—and probably unwelcome—discoveries for the Trudeau government
ScienceWarning: Strange science looms ahead in 20172017 will be a year when science will seem a lot like science fiction
CultureA neuroscientist author blinds readers with scienceJay Hosking’s Three Years With The Rat is unsettling like Paul Auster, complex like David Mitchell—and a bit unwieldy
ScienceBill Gates: ’Let’s science the expletive-expletive out of this.’In predicting an imminent clean energy miracle, Bill Gates echoed the famous line from the movie ’The Martian’—a new rallying cry for science and progress