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Insects, Flowers & Food
Last winter, the Royal Saskatchewan Museum set up a temporary exhibit commemorating the 100th anniversary of the extinction of the passenger pigeon. The exhibit served as a springboard for a broader...
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Launched in January 2006, the NASA probe New Horizons received a gravity assist from Jupiter during a flyby in February 2007, and is now just days away from reaching Pluto after a journey of...
View ArticleArchaeology Field Day
Over the last three months or so we’ve done a couple of articles where we’ve delved into the disciplines of paleontology and zoology. One was an article on dinosaurs that coincided with the release of...
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Weekly Reckoning: Togarishi Edition
Have you ever tried shichimi togarishi? It’s a seven-spice blend of Japanese pepper, nori, black sesame seeds and whatever else. I sprinkled a bit on some corn-on-the-cob today, and I have to say, I’ve...
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Exciting Goings On In The Sky
Get ready to get your lunar eclipse on on Sunday The last one happened in 1982, and the next one won’t be until 2033. And it starts Sunday night at 6:11 p.m. Regina time, with the excitement peaking...
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Exciting Goings On On Mars
No details have been confirmed yet, but NASA is promising a major announcement on Monday at 9:30 a.m. Regina time about a scientific finding that has been made as part of its ongoing exploration of...
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Ignite!
Last year, as part of its 25th anniversary celebrations the Saskatchewan Science Centre hosted a science fair to encourage creativity and innovation in the province. As Paul Dechene learned when...
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Election 2015: Conservative’s Goodyear Brings Misinfo To Science Fight
A hi-tech science gizmo at the Experimental Lakes Area. Happy Thanksgiving everybody. Hope I’m not intruding on your happy family weekend with this blog post which, I’m sorry to say, will only provide...
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The Great Pumpkin
While many people will be busy getting their costumes together to go trick-or-treating or partying tomorrow, astronomers at observatories around the world, including NASA’s Deep Space Network in...
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Talkin’‘Bout Turtles
Photo courtesy of Kelsey Marchand In the July 23 issue of Prairie Dog we had an article about a research project University of Regina masters science student Kelsey Marchand was conducting to study the...
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Saskatchewan Fossil Campaign
Not a fan of the information panel that’s stuck in Scotty’s mouth I gotta admit. It should be mounted on the crate somewhere Above is a shot from the exhibit that’s currently on at the Royal...
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Sci-Fi Writers Discuss Climate Catastrophe: Julie Czerneda, Author Of A Play...
Photo by Roger Czerneda Photography To mark the end of another global climate summit — the COP21 conference in Paris — I contacted three Canadian science fiction writers and asked them what they...
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Sci-Fi Writers Discuss Climate Catastrophe: Nina Munteanu, Author Of Darwin’s...
To mark the end of the COP21 climate conference in Paris, I contacted three Canadian science fiction writers and asked them what might happen to the planet if we can’t reach an international deal on...
View ArticleThe Science Awakens
If you happened to see our Star Wars themed Dec. 10 issue you might have spotted a science article on the growing number of exoplanets that have been discovered lately through the Kepler Space...
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Sci-Fi Writers Discuss Climate Catastrophe: Robert J Sawyer, Author Of Hominids
The big announcement came this weekend that over 190 nations had signed on to an agreement in Paris to move their economies in the general direction of away from fossil fuels. It’s being hailed as...
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Cassini Bids Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Goodbye
Yesterday, the space probe Cassini, which was launched in 1997, and has been studying Saturn and its moons since it arrived at the ringed planet in 2004, conducted one last flyby of the moon Enceladus...
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Property Rights In Space
If you picked up a hard copy of our Dec. 23 issue you might have spotted a mid-section top six called Private Space that recapped a possible conflict between a piece of legislation passed by U.S....
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RPL 3D Printer
At left is a photo of the 3D printer that the Regina Public Library recently installed at Central Branch. You can find details on how to access the printer on the RPL website. But here are the basics:...
View ArticleSpaceX Success
After a high-profile failure in April where SpaceX tried to land a rocket booster on an ocean platform, the company run by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk scored a major achievement just before Christmas...
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Science Marches On
There was big news in the world of chemistry yesterday when scientists from Japan, the United States and Russia announced the existence of four new superheavy elements that complete the seventh row of...
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