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The Bonk Stops Here

5 Dec 2025

Walk any marathon finish line and you’ll see them: hundreds of sad, sticky rectangles decorating the asphalt like fallen soldiers of fructose. Energy gels, those gooey, neon-packet shots of “rocket...

How a Montreal-Made AI Device Is Helping Surgeons See the Invisible

28 Nov 2025

When removing a brain tumour, the distinction between healthy tissue and cancer isn’t visible to the naked eye. Even advanced imaging can miss what hides between those boundaries. For years, this...

The 'Nappuccino': Myth or Midday Miracle?

28 Nov 2025

If there’s one thing to know about me, it’s that I never quite outgrew the afternoon nap phase we all went through as kids. Among my friends, napping was (and still is) considered to be my “thing."...

The Tongue Map Trap

21 Nov 2025

Let me set the scene: it’s the evening, I’m doomscrolling in bed (as is tradition), and a video from Emma Chamberlain pops up. She's slurping espresso with a “coffee expert” who confidently...

The False Economy of Education Cuts

7 Nov 2025

Why This Matters (Even If You Don’t Live There)...

A Century in the Making: The DNA Discovery Story

31 Oct 2025

When most people hear about the discovery of DNA, they picture James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953, triumphantly holding up a model of the double helix. But DNA’s story doesn’t begin, or end,...

Seeds of Hope Require Roots of Integrity: Remembering Jane Goodall

24 Oct 2025

On Wednesday October 1st, 2025, Dr. Jane Goodall passed away while on a speaking tour in the United States. As an esteemed scientist whose life mission was to advocate for wildlife, promote...

Faster, Higher, Stronger… Enhanced?

17 Oct 2025

For most people, track and field exists as a fleeting summer spectacle: ten days every four years when the fastest, strongest, and most gravity-defying humans wage war on a 400-metre oval. For me,...

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