Canadian Science and Art Mix It Up in the Annual #SciArt Tweet Storm

By Liz Martin-Silverstone, Multimedia Editor & Outreach Team If you have been watching the Science Borealis Twitter stream for the last few days you may have wondered what this #SciArt tweet storm was all about. The group over at Scientific American’s Symbiartic started the #SciArt tweet storm last year, in hopes of connecting scientific artists […]

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Canada isn’t immune to the Thirty Meter Telescope controversy

Thirty Metre Telescope

Stephanne Taylor, Physics & Astronomy co-editor The Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) project is exactly what it says on the box: a telescope with a staggering 30 metre segmented lens, housed in an 18-storey observatory in the very early stages of construction on Mauna Kea, Hawai’i. If built, the TMT will be the largest telescope in […]

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