The Nature of Science

Today is the day that the Mars rover Curiosity landed. A remarkable American technological achievement. There have been many other technolo...

The first atomic bomb was detonated on this day in 1945 [ Trinity ]. The second detonation of an atomic bomb took place over Hiroshima , Jap...

  Robert Alexander Hood 1 was born in 1895 in a small village north-west of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He went to France in 1916 when he wa...

  From CBCNews [ Don't extend Afghan mission, Canadians say: poll ].

  Canadian troops and support personal have been in Afghanistan for the better part of ten years. The goal was to create a stable democratic...

  Today is Remembrance Day in Canada. It's a day to remember that war is evil and horrible. It's a day to remember that war represe...

  It's probably just a coincidence but now that students have returned from their summer break there are more and more reports of hawks ...

(reposted from August 6, 2007) At 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945 an atomic bomb was detonated over Hiroshima, Japan. Approximately 78,000 civilia...