Descrease article font size Increase article font size A northern Manitoba town that has been evacuated twice this summer due to out-of-control wildfires has been given the go-ahead to return home later this week. The mandatory evacuation order for the roughly 1,000 residents who live in Snow Lake, about 700 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg, is…
Editor’s Note: The headline of this article was updated on August 14 to to clarify the nature of the moonquake research. As NASA prepares to send astronauts to the surface of the Moon’s south polar region for the first time ever during the Artemis III mission, scientists are working on methods to determine the frequency…
Not many college students can say they designed and built a functioning piece of hospital equipment, but a few soon-to-be grads on Vancouver Island have done just that. The group of Camosun College engineering students ploughed some 5,000 hours over three-and-a-half months into the tool, a pediatric MRI simulator, which was officially unveiled on Monday….
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Surrey police are investigating after the head of a social services non-profit was attacked with what’s believed to be pepper spray. The incident happened around 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 11, as Progressive Intercultural Community Services (PICS) Society CEO Satbir Cheema was leaving the organization’s head office…
Former NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough is photographed as he left the airlock hatch during a spacewalk on Jan. 13, 2017. Kimbrough performed nine spacewalks during his three spaceflights. He retired in July 2022. Astronauts conduct spacewalks to perform maintenance on the space station, install new equipment, or deploy science experiments. These activities also inform future missions…
On Monday, police said there is nothing to suggest criminality, but they are looking for more witnesses to complete the investigation. Source link
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted August 18, 2025 5:30 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police in northern Ontario say four young people have died in a weekend collision involving an ATV and a commercial vehicle. Ontario Provincial Police say the crash happened at around 3:20 a.m. Saturday…
The B.C. Wildfire Service says the recent rain and cooler temperatures have helped the fires burning in the province. “What’s been happening over the last four days is we’ve had approximately 36 mm of rainfall in the Mount Underwood area, which has been great news for us,” Julia Caranci, fire information officer with the B.C….
This November marks a quarter century of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station, which has served as a springboard for developing a low Earth economy and NASA’s next great leaps in exploration, including human missions to the Moon and Mars. To kick off the orbiting laboratory’s silver 25th anniversary countdown, here are a…
Human-rating is a critical certification process that validates the safety, reliability, and suitability of space systems—including orbiters, launch vehicles, rovers, spacesuits, habitats, and other crewed elements—for human use and interaction. This process ensures that systems are designed not only to protect human life but also to accommodate human needs and effectively integrate human capabilities. Human-rating requires…
