Canada South Science City

Solar Eclipse today, October 14, 2023. Unfortunately, cloudy weather is hiding the sun as the eclipse starts. If it's any consolation, even with sunny weather we would not have seen much: here, only about 35% coverage of an annular eclipse that would have peaked shortly after 1 pm.
However, the big event is still a half year away: a TOTAL ECLIPSE visible (given cooperation from the weather!) on APril 8, 2024, along the Lake Erie shore from Colcheter Beach through Kingsville and Point Pelee. Get your approved solar glasses or plan to project the solar image to make sure you can view that one safely!

Join Science City this weekend, August 5 and 6, from 10 am to 10 pm, for Jurassic Fest at 664 Victoria Ave., Windsor!

Well put. Excessive consumption and greed, together with an ecominic system based on perpetual growth, is the real problem. Nevertheless, Earth would probably be happier with a stable population of 5 billion or fewer humans, specially if they were well fed and educated!
Bill (William E. Baylis)

Should we be worried about eight billion people? - David Suzuki Foundation The human population just reached eight billion! Does it matter?

Happy Summer Solstice and National Indiginous Peoples Day!!

Note that today, on May 2, Google is celebrating a local hero: black inventor Elijah McCoy, many of whose over 50 patents made locomotives and steam engines run well. He was born here in Colchester in 1844 on May 2.

This is an important high-precision result from Ashutosh Kotwal of Duke University and his international collaboration of physicists that may lead to new physics beyond the standard model and eventually help explain the rather embarrassing preponderance of dark matter and dark energy in the universe.

Oddly heavy particle may have just broken the reigning model of particle physics The W boson is heftier than anyone expected.

Math and Music

In Music and Math, Lillian Pierce Builds Landscapes | Quanta Magazine Lillian Pierce wants to transform access to the world of mathematics, while making headway on problems that bridge the discrete and continuous.

There are many distractions, but the IPCC reminds us of the importance of keeping a focus on climate change!

The evidence is clear: the time for action is now. We can halve emissions by 2030.

In 2010-2019 average annual global were at their highest levels in human history, but the rate of growth has slowed. Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, limiting global warming to 1.5°C is beyond reach, says the latest released today.

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The tweety dinosuars are back early this year!

Many bird species nesting and laying eggs nearly a month early, study says Heating of the atmosphere, due to the burning of fossil fuels, is seemingly upending a process that long appeared unshakeable

Happy Pi day! Celebrate what would be Albert Einstein's 143rd birthday with an apple pie whose ideal circumference is exactly Pi times its diameter! (Its filling honours Isaac Newton whose theories gave us our first quantitative understanding of gravity.)

Together with all Science Centres, museums, and art galleries in Ontario, Canada South Science City will be closed to the public until at least January 21, 2022. We are planning renovations that will probably keep us closed for even longer. Please watch this space for updates, and stay safe and healthy!