On the night of Nov. 18, Cliff Johnson, an astronomy researcher at Northwestern University, was using the Dark Energy Camera on a telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile to search for nearby dwarf galaxies. In order to capture the light of faint, distant objects, the camera needs to take long-exposure images. At…

Hello, people! This is our weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where we highlight trends and solutions that are moving us to a more sustainable world. (Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday.) This week: This Canadian company shows a greener way to bottle water Tesla’s Cybertruck: Interest in electric pickups is picking up How…

From the outside, it looks like just another house; but if you lived there, you could save a pretty penny on energy.  The structure stands, still under construction, on the Fiberglass North property in Kam Lake, Yellowknife. “These houses should be able to provide their own energy with solar for 10 months of the year,”…

Chinese telecom giant Huawei funds millions of dollars in technology research in Canada, and that has some tech and national security experts alarmed. Huawei has been singled out by intelligence and security agencies around the world. It’s been called a “Trojan horse” and a threat to Western nations. It’s believed by many to be linked to the Chinese government…

A legal battle between law enforcement in Ontario and tech-giant Facebook has come to an end, with both sides conceding the social media company isn’t bound by Canadian laws, even though its used by millions of Canadians.  The case involved Facebook messages that police in London, Ont., wanted to access in order to proceed with…

Far below the streets of London exists an underground city of Second World War bunkers that were purpose-built in the event of a nuclear attack. When the war ended, these spaces were largely left empty.  Well, not all of them. In one of these shelters, 33 metres below Clapham High Street in southwest London, sits…