An Edmonton couple might be living on a piece of history. Last year, Jennifer Yeoman and her husband Hector Lomack were doing some landscaping in their yard when they found a curious-looking black rock.“As Hector was digging out the front, I was out here around and about, and he came to me with a big
Anticipation is building for the total solar eclipse on Monday that astronomers are calling a “once-in-a-lifetime” event, which will plunge areas under the eclipse’s path into darkness. For the past few months, cities along the totality’s path have been bracing for an influx of visitors, but one group in particular has been getting ready for
In a rare natural phenomenon that has not been witnessed since the 1800s, billions of cicadas are poised to emerge from their decades-long slumber across the eastern half of the United States this spring and early summer. This double brood event will happen just south of Canada, with both 13-year and 17-year cicadas emerging simultaneously
Stargazers are getting ready to witness one of the “most active and reliable meteor showers” of the year light up the skies this week. The Geminid meteor shower is expected to peak on Thursday but could be visible starting Wednesday night.The annual spectacle brings a flurry of so-called “shooting stars” streaking through the skies, delivering
A solar eclipse will darken skies across parts of North America this weekend — one of two must-see celestial events over the next six months that the continent won’t see again for years. So if you have fear of missing out, be prepared, because the next solar eclipses in Canada this century are few and
Have any plans next weekend? If not, here’s something worth taking a peek at — a solar eclipse will occur across North America on Saturday, Oct. 14. Unfortunately for Canadians, the eclipse — annular, not total, but more on that later — will track south of the border, though its sky-darkening effects will still be
A woman who underwent brain surgery for a host of medical complaints got far more than she bargained for when doctors pulled an eight-centimetre-long live worm from her brain. The patient, a 64-year-old woman from New South Wales in Australia, was admitted to a Canberra hospital in January 2021 with complaints of weeks-long diarrhea and
Ann Johnson was just 30 years old when she experienced a stroke in 2005 that left her paralyzed and unable to speak. At the time, she was a math and P.E. teacher at Luther College in Regina, had an eight-year-old stepson and had recently welcomed a baby girl into the world. “Overnight, everything was taken
Descrease article font size Increase article font size Welcome to your weekly existential crisis, courtesy of NASA. In this latest episode of awe-inspiring and somewhat unnerving content, the space agency has shared a mesmerizing video that illustrates just how massive black holes actually are.“These monsters lurk in the centers of most big galaxies, including our
After more than five decades, humans are getting closer to returning to the moon. NASA is planning to send four astronauts, including Canadian Jeremy Hansen, around the moon with the launch of the Artemis II mission set for next year. Read more: Canadian Jeremy Hansen named to NASA’s Artemis II mission around the moon In