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Individual and bundled tickets for ideacity, June 13, 14 & 15, 2012 in Toronto’s Koerner Hall, are currently at can’t-miss rates: $3000 + HST for an individual 3-day pass $5500 +HST for two 3-day passes $7500 + HST for three … Read more

Canadian researchers working on a preventive HIV vaccine announced Tuesday they have received approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration to begin clinical trials on humans in January. A team led by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang, a virologist at … Read more

What’s the best way to take a sample from a violently speeding comet? One that’s doing cartwheels through the cosmos, spewing out chunks of rock and speeding through the solar system at 150,000 miles an hour? NASA Builds Six Foot … Read more

Last week, National Geographic invited The Seasteading Institute to Galveston, Texas to shoot a documentary aboard a dry-docked oil rig. It will be a segment in a six-part series on the oceans. Director of Engineering George Petrie and Board of … Read more

The Supreme Court must decide whether women may keep their faces covered in court. Or rather whether Muslim women can, but other women can’t. A young Muslim woman in her thirties, known as N.S., claims that the psychological distress of testifying with … Read more

Discovery of an “Earth-like” planet has generated a wave of excitement, but our fascination with finding other habitable worlds goes back a long way, argues science fiction writer Robert J Sawyer. The most famous words in all of science fiction … Read more

Thanks to cloud computing and cheap sensors, a 2.5-inch rubber block is moving the lofty vision of theInternet of Things a big step closer to reality. A pair of MIT Media Lab alums have come up with a do-it-yourself kit … Read more

Babies as young as eight months old may want those who have mistreated others to be punished, a new study led by a University of British Columbia psychologist has found. While previous research has shown that babies as young as … Read more

She has bright red lips, a red, disk-shaped ornament at her neck, long, curly auburn hair, fashionable layers of wool. Tzeporah Berman is a statement of style as she takes her place at a boardroom table in her publisher’s Toronto … Read more