It was a long-held belief that a monocyte’s function was to fight off infections with neutrophils, but a recently published paper demonstrates a discrepancy in the amount of cell recruitment per site of infection may be due to monocytes having a different function. When the body is faced
If you haven’t had the chance to lay your eyes on the fattest bear ever, you missed out on the next-best thing, but you are still able to see the results. In Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska, U.S., the eighth annual Fat Bear Week was
Spiders are not in the good graces of most humans but maybe that is all about to change. A group of researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax have just published a paper in the Advanced Functional Materials journal that outlines how spider silk could one day direct the regrowth of
Artemis I has been as important of a mission as it has been controversial. The long-awaited launch has been delayed once more. Even though Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques agrees that this was the right move to make, public unrest continues to steadily increase and the years of budget
Humans have been responsible for damage to the planet, but one of the most well-known examples remains the Tasmanian tiger. The name is misleading, as it is actually a dog-like marsupial that went extinct in captivity in 1936. The animal was accused of preying on the sheep and
It has not been more than two months since the official first images of the Webb telescope have been released, but it has been sending invaluable data during that time. From August’s reveal of an in-depth analysis of our very own gas giant Jupiter’s aurora to another
The current Mars rover, Curiosity, has explored the depths of Gale Crater and the heights of Mount Sharp, sending valuable data back to Earth. A group of researchers have collaborated with NASA to use the samples of Curiosity to study the geological context of Mars’ surface and find data if
Dave the shark is an ancient shark skeleton from Morden, Manitoba, originally found in 1975. However, Dave remained in storage at the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre for 40 years — until he was rediscovered and let out of hiding. Now, he is proudly on display and ready to be further studied.
Announced on July 12, the first images of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) were released to the public showing the power of the new telescope and higher definition images than the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The JWST project was achieved in partnership with the
A new dinosaur named the Meraxes giga has been discovered in Argentina by a team of international scientists. The study was published on Current Biology on July 7. The dinosaur is said to have lived in the Patagonia region of Argentina during the late Cretaceous period, almost 94 million years
