Renaissance BioScience is working on a project to extend the reach of its yeast-based bio-pesticide technology from above-ground insect pests to target soil-dwelling crop pests.
The initial target of its RNA interference bio-tech weapon? Destructive wireworms.
Founded in Vancouver in 2013,...
Launched in January 2025, the rocket sent two commercial lunar landers toward Earth’s nearest neighbour.
With its work done, the rocket lacked the fuel to return to Earth or move into deep space. It remained in an unstable orbit until...
Planning a day involves two different kinds of mental work. First comes arrangement: seeing what competes for the same hour, what depends on something else, and whether the plan can fit into the time available. Later comes retrieval: remembering...
Kmart and Target appear to have launched $89 smart glasses in Australia, lowering the financial barrier to wearable recording equipment and AI image recognition tools.
The launch coincides with escalating public debate over smart glasses and their capacity to record...
The advice to set better boundaries at work has become close to a default response to feeling overwhelmed by a job. Say no to the extra meeting. Turn off notifications after six. Stop answering messages on the weekend. The...
“Reverse age-gap relationship” has become the shorthand for a woman dating or marrying a man significantly younger than her, the inverse of the far more common pattern of an older man with a younger woman. The phrase, and the...
In 2005, the psychologists Angela Duckworth and Martin Seligman published a study in Psychological Science of 140 eighth graders that has been cited more than a thousand times since. Self-discipline, measured months before the school year ended through self-report,...
Unlike many other gaming events around the world, this isn’t one that simply sells out. The game’s Community Team runs a lottery for tickets. Only those with active accounts can enter, and if you win, you gain the ability...
Bigger is not always better, posits Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer.
Schaeffer is the founder of Synsira Software Solutions and a cofounder of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute, and he’s referring to artificial intelligence systems.
“Not every AI task needs to be sent...
Earlier this year, an entrepreneur based in northern British Columbia launched a free app in response to rising wildfires in Canada.
Jeff Parr, a former oil sector employee and self-taught coder, says WildFire Ready keeps users informed by pulling live...
