The Climate Consortium for Research Action Integration (CC-RAI) and York’s Knowledge Mobilization (KMb) unit hosted two events aimed at engaging professionals and students involved in climate change research and action last Thursday at the York Research Tower. The events served as the capstone to a Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) supported […]
Nights on Mars are shrouded in icy fog that turns to scattered precipitation, according to a new study of weather near the red planet’s north pole, wrote National Geographic News online April 4: The finding marks the first time that fog has been directly observed on the neighbouring world, adding to evidence that modern Mars […]
York University researchers will participate in a mission probing the atmosphere of Mars for sources of methane, part of the ongoing search for evidence of life on the red planet. Researchers from the Faculty of Science & Engineering will be part of a team of Canadian scientists responsible for a device that will measure and […]
Wayne Hocking says things like, “It might turn out to be a red herring,” and “We’re still learning,” and “A lot of this is speculation,” wrote the London Free Press June 9: But despite all those cautious caveats, the local scientist says something happened high in the sky over southwestern Ontario on Sunday that just […]