Kate Lunau
Motherboard
Toronto, ON, Canada
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A ‘Quantum Radar’ System Will Watch for Stealth Aircraft and Missiles in the Arctic
Canada is investing $2.7 million to develop quantum radar technology. → Read More
A Carolina Reaper Pepper Sent a Man to the Hospital With ‘Thunderclap’ Headaches
It’s the first report of this kind of thing happening. → Read More
A Top-Secret US Military Base Will Melt Out of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Planners thought it would stay buried in ice forever. → Read More
A Giant, Mysterious Hole Has Opened Up in Antarctica
“We’re still trying to figure out what’s going on.” → Read More
A Giant, Mysterious Hole Has Opened Up in Antarctica
“We’re still trying to figure out what’s going on.” → Read More
Nobel Prize in Physics Recognizes the Dawn of a Whole New Kind of Astronomy
Rainer Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Barry Barish are named for leading the effort to detect gravitational waves. → Read More
A Giant Concrete Orb in Northern Iceland Moves With the Arctic Circle
It’s on the remote island of Grímsey in Iceland. → Read More
Mathematical Formula Predicts Global Mass Extinction Event in 2100
If we put another 310 gigatons of carbon into the ocean by 2100, which we’re well on track to do, we enter “unknown territory.” → Read More
TV Weathercasters Are Being Recruited to Convince People Climate Change Is Real
Weathercasters' on-air reporting about climate change increased over 1,200 percent between 2013 and 2016. → Read More
US Scientists Just Confirmed They’ve Genetically Modified Human Embryos
The researchers want to move onto clinical trials in humans and “monitor the birth of children." → Read More
Scientists Found a Way to Stop Aging in Human Cells
They targeted telomeres, caps on chromosomes whose length roughly corresponds to age. → Read More
Asteroids Started Out as Space Mud, a New Theory Suggests
This is weird. → Read More
A Trillion-Ton Iceberg Just Broke Off Antarctica
Now what? → Read More
Scientists Worry About a Future Ice Age Crushing Our Nuclear Waste Vaults
The Greenland ice sheet is a useful stand-in for the future. → Read More
Sea Level Rise Will Completely Reshape Canada by 2100
Vancouver, Halifax, and Tuktoyaktuk are on the front lines. → Read More
First Nations in Ontario Are Grappling With Nuclear Waste on Their Lands
The plan to build a nuclear waste dump on the Great Lakes is inching forward. It still needs consent from the Saugeen Ojibway Nation. → Read More
Sexist Comments Spark Outrage at Major Astronomy Festival
A panelist at Starmus said he trusts Siri with a "male" voice. → Read More
Data Visualization Experts Say Search Trend Maps Are Mostly Bunk
Google’s new map shows Canada’s “most misspelled words.” → Read More
Researchers Have Found a 115 Million Year Old Mushroom
It’s the oldest mushroom in the world. → Read More
Doctor-Assisted Dying Has Been ‘Normalized’ in Canada in Just One Year
At Canada’s biggest hospital network, 19 patients had a medically assisted death in 2016-17. → Read More