How to Understand Blockchains With Scrabble
July 20, 2018This modified game of Scrabble called Scrabits is fast, chaotic, and educational.
VICEDoug Ford, Canada’s Version of Trump, Is Waging His Own War on the Environment
June 22, 2018Doug Ford is already cutting the GreenON fund, and said that the cap-and-trade program will be his first priority as premier of Ontario.
VICECarrie Goldberg Is Fighting Revenge Porn One Court Case at a Time
April 30, 2017“I am one of my clients.”
VICEKendra Kuhl Is Building a Device That Turns Pollution Into Products
April 28, 2017The CTO of Opus 12 has been trying to help the environment since she was a grad student.
VICEStartup Founder Thuy Truong’s Latest Venture Is Giving People the Will to Fight Cancer
April 21, 2017After several of her promising business ventures ended, the 32-year-old received a shocking diagnosis. Now she’s using her experiences to help others.
VICEScientists Recreated the Elusive Rogue Wave in a Lab
April 09, 2017Do wind patterns have anything to do with these destructive deep-ocean monsters?
VICEScientists Recreated the Elusive Rogue Wave in a Lab
April 09, 2017Do wind patterns have anything to do with these destructive deep-ocean monsters?
VICEClimate Change Will Make Airplane Turbulence Much Worse
April 06, 2017As CO2 emissions increase, flights will be bumpier too.
VICEPhysicist Mary Gaillard Has Spent Over Three Decades Fighting For Women in Science
April 05, 2017She was Berkeley's first tenured female physics professor, and she's still fighting for equality.
VICELiberals and Conservatives Are Reading Totally Different Science Books
April 03, 2017In a new study, researchers were hoping science would be a bridge. That didn’t happen.
VICEThis Map Will Show If Your Web Traffic Passes Through an NSA Listening Post
March 28, 2017IXmaps wants to “make visible the secret, dangerous, often illegal forms of surveillance that are increasingly becoming part of everyday life.”
VICEKeystone XL Is Back From the Dead, And Environmentalists Are Ready to Fight
March 24, 2017The Trump administration has issued a presidential permit for construction to begin.
VICEKeystone XL Is Back From the Dead, And Environmentalists Are Ready to Fight
March 24, 2017The Trump administration has issued a presidential permit for construction to begin.
VICEThe Quest to Turn the Arctic Into a Clean Energy Outpost Has Begun
March 23, 2017"A lot of the remote communities are dependent on diesel."
VICEThe Fight to Protect This Swath of Wilderness Is Going to Canada’s Supreme Court
March 22, 2017The Peel Watershed, in the Yukon, is one of the largest intact pieces of wilderness left in North America. The Supreme Court will decide its fate.
VICEThe Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding Is Music to Szabolcs Marka’s Ears
March 19, 2017“It was life-changing in the way that the world started to share our vision. The world started to believe with us.”
VICECanada Might Be the Best Place to Learn About Ancient Earth
March 16, 2017Parts of the Earth's original crust are still traceable there, a new study finds.
VICEThe Statistics Canada Site Was Hacked By an Unknown Attacker
March 13, 2017Parts of the Canada Revenue Agency website were also shut down over the same vulnerability, smack in the middle of tax season.
VICEThe Ocean Is Rocked By ‘Rogue Waves’ More Often Than We Knew
March 10, 2017Some of these monsters have been measured over six storeys tall.
VICETrump's EPA Cuts Will Make These Bloodsucking Monsters Very Happy
March 07, 2017The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, which fights invasive species like the sea lamprey, could see its funding slashed by 97 percent.
VICEIs Peeing In the Pool Really That Bad?
March 03, 2017There are 75 litres of pee in a standard swimming pool, but don’t freak out.
VICEIs Peeing In the Pool Really That Bad?
March 02, 2017There are 75 litres of pee in a standard swimming pool, but don’t freak out.
VICENASA Is Stress-Testing Its Next Gigantic Kickass Space Telescope
March 02, 2017Watch an astrophysicist’s live talk on the telescope from the Perimeter Institute.
VICENASA Is Stress-Testing Its Next Gigantic Kickass Space Telescope
March 01, 2017Watch an astrophysicist's talk on the telescope from the Perimeter Institute.
VICELydia Villa-Komaroff Has Spent Four Decades Fighting For Diversity in Science
February 28, 2017“I was almost done with graduate school before I met scientists of colour whom I could look to as mentors.”
VICE‘De-Extinction’ Is a Bad Idea Because We Can’t Even Take Care of What We’ve Got
February 27, 2017Bringing extinct animals back from the dead could hurt existing species, says a new report.
VICEKomodo Dragon Blood Could Save Your Life
February 27, 2017For once, they're not trying to kill you.
VICEKomodo Dragon Blood Could Save Your Life
February 26, 2017For once, they're not trying to kill you.
VICEKomodo Dragon Blood Could Save Your Life
February 26, 2017For once, they're not trying to kill you.
VICEThe Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Has Come to Canadian Universities
February 21, 2017Université Laval in Quebec is the first to say no to fossil fuel investments.
VICENASA Filmed Water Escaping Down Giant Cracks in the Greenland Ice Sheet
February 17, 2017It's a beautiful but scary sight, as this water will push sea levels higher.
VICEA Fin Whale's Weird 'Stretchy Nerves' Mean It Could Eat a Schoolbus For Lunch
February 16, 2017In order to feed, these whales need to open their mouths really, really wide.
VICESupermassive Black Holes Don’t Just Destroy Stars—They Help Form New Ones
February 14, 2017Black holes regulate the galaxies around them.
VICECell Death Might Be Reversible, and Scientists Are Trying to Find Out Why
February 12, 2017It tells us something important about cancer.
VICECell Death Might Be Reversible, and Scientists Are Trying to Find Out Why
February 12, 2017It tells us something important about cancer.
VICEHow One Fish Uses Sneak Attacks to Divebomb Potential Mates
February 10, 2017It's one of the first times that scientists have filmed “sneaking” in the wild.
VICEWhy the Higgs Boson Found at the Large Hadron Collider Could Be an ‘Impostor’
February 07, 2017An Iowa physicist intends to find out.
VICEWhy the Higgs Boson Found at the Large Hadron Collider Could Be an ‘Impostor’
February 07, 2017An Iowa physicist intends to find out.
VICEWhy Solar Storms Could Be Killing Whales and Dolphins
February 03, 2017Solar storms mess with the Earth’s magnetic fields, which could hurt some animals' sense of navigation.
VICEScientists in Canada Are Organizing a Boycott Against US Conferences
February 02, 2017“If one of us can’t go, we don’t go at all.”
VICETrump’s Travel Ban Disrupts Meeting of ICANN, the Internet's Governing Body
January 30, 2017At least two Iranian-born researchers are being blocked from crucial meetings.
VICEThe Expansion of the Universe Appears Faster Than We Thought
January 27, 2017The results of a new study are close, but slightly faster than, the generally accepted rate.
VICEThese Plankton-Like Robots Are Drifting Through the Ocean to Help Save Sea Life
January 24, 2017The M-AUE robots may look like Minions from the movies, but they are the culmination of 20 years of hard work. Now, if only scientists could stop them from getting picked up at bars
VICEWatch Climate Scientists’ Heartbreaking Pleas to President Trump
January 20, 2017This video is just as sad as it sounds.
VICEYour Heartbeat Could Be a Better Password Than Whatever You’re Using Now
January 19, 2017It's another step forward in biometric verification.
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