Sci/Why

  A mastodon molar is AS BIG AS MY HEAD, y'all.   by L. E. Carmichael Did you have a dinosaur phase when you were a kid? I did. I was in...

Image by Goran Horvat from Pixabay By Claire Eamer In 2001, I went to work for the Northern Climate ExChange at Yukon College in White...

The surprising thing about 100-year events is that they can happen year after year, not just once every 100 years. That's because the ...

By Claire Eamer Whenever an airplane crashes, you hear about investigators retrieving the plane's black box. It's a device that re...

By Claire Eamer There’s lots of great science happening in the Great White North. (Actually, it’s not very white today – gorgeous fall col...

By Claire Eamer The shrinking sea ice of the Arctic Ocean has been in the news a lot lately, along with photos of polar bears stranded on ...

By Claire Eamer On August 17, I posted an article about the rapid melting of arctic sea ice this summer and the likelihood that we were h...

By Claire Eamer We've heard a lot about melting ice in the Arctic this summer, and we're likely to hear more. It takes a long time...

By Claire Eamer In 1997, as aspen leaves glowed golden and fireweed burned dark red in the early Yukon autumn, Gerry Kuzyk climbed the ste...

by L E Carmichael Part One - Riker's Race Every battery has the same basic components: the anode (negative electrode); the c...

by L E Carmichael Andrew L. Riker It's September 7, 1896, at Narragansett Park in Rhode Island. The first car race ever held on a ...

posted by Claire Eamer It's harvest time here in the Yukon, at the northern edge of the boreal forest. The leaves on the aspen trees are...

By Judy Wearing What does the history of invention have to do with modern technology issues? The name Henry Ford is often associated wit...