Team Canada had a record-breaking run at the Paris Olympics. Canada won 27 medals – nine gold, seven silver and 11 bronze – more than any Summer Olympics since the boycott-plagued 1984 Games 40 years ago in... read more
Summer McIntosh poses with her Olympic Games 2024 medals on Aug. 5, at Canada Olympic House in Paris. Siegfried Modola/The Globe and Mail When Summer McIntosh was little, her mom found one of her soccer... read more
As researchers at the world’s most advanced AI companies prepared to sign a public letter last week warning of frightening new developments in artificial intelligence, Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI, e-mailed to ask if... read more
It was the show that kept weather forecasters guessing and then graced the fortunate with an unforgettable finale. On Monday, the moon’s shadow raced across North America as anticipated, dousing daylight and drawing eyes to... read more
For people living in the northern hemisphere, the winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year – that is, the 24-hour period with the least amount of daylight. But while the timing of sunrise... read more
If three’s a crowd, then six makes a chorus. That’s the case at least for a rare six-planet solar system whose discovery has wowed astronomers, even in an era when detecting planets around distant stars... read more
Electric vehicles are so radically different from many of our old gas-guzzlers, especially when you focus on an EV’s sophisticated battery technology and its operational silence, that they often draw comparisons to computers and smartphones.... read more
A Canadian-led team of astronomers has discovered 62 moons around Saturn, the largest such trove of planetary satellites ever revealed in one batch. The find, announced on Thursday, raises the official count of Saturn’s retinue... read more
So I guess we know what Canada’s going to be doing in July, 2024. We’ll all be watching Summer McIntosh. A week ago, Ms. McIntosh was a name drifting along the periphery of the big... read more
It’s not exactly a smoking gun – or smoking cone – but scientists working with data captured by a NASA spacecraft say they have uncovered new evidence for active volcanoes on the surface of Venus. If correct,... read more
There is tension in the forest. The idea that trees can exchange signals and resources through a hidden, underground communication system built out of fungus is among the most striking ecological concepts to emerge in... read more
New technology holds promise for the challenges of climate change and food supply, but first its purveyors say they need space to grow. It started with cherry tomatoes. As a university student, Alycia van der... read more
Scientists have reached a major milestone in the pursuit of nuclear fusion, the process that powers the stars and could one day provide a globally accessible, long-term supply of carbon-free energy. U.S. government officials said... read more
The 26-day mission around the moon and back marks a critical step by the U.S. space agency. Like a powerful beacon lighting the way to a distant shore, the Artemis I spacecraft sliced across the... read more
Gilles Brassard, a University of Montreal computer scientist who made seminal contributions to the field of quantum cryptography, has been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics, the world’s largest science prize. In an announcement... read more
