This smartwatch company was hit by a data breach. Here’s what we know

This smartwatch company was hit by a data breach. Here’s what we know

Sometimes it feels like you can’t turn your computer on without seeing news of yet another data breach. One of the latest victims is Polar, the smartwatch company responsible for gadgets like the Polar Pacer Pro and the Polar Vantage V3. Fun fact: Polar is also one of Henry Cavill’s fitness trackers of choice. The … Read more

OceanGate co-founder says he hopes Titan tragedy yields renewed interest in exploration

OceanGate co-founder says he hopes Titan tragedy yields renewed interest in exploration

The Titan inquiry’s public hearing began Sept. 16, with some of the testimony focused on the troubled nature of the company. (OceanGate Expeditions/The Associated Press) The co-founder of the company that owned the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic told a Coast Guard panel Monday that he hoped that … Read more

A key employee who called the Titan unsafe testifies the company only wanted to make money

A key employee who called the Titan unsafe testifies the company only wanted to make money

Wreckage from the Titan is hoisted from the ship that brought it back to St. John’s harbour on June 28, 2023. (Patrick Butler/Radio-Canada) A key employee who labeled a doomed experimental submersible unsafe prior to its last, fatal voyage testified Tuesday that he frequently clashed with the company’s co-founder and felt the company was committed … Read more

The moon has an atmosphere (sort of). Now, astronomers have nailed down why and how

The moon has an atmosphere (sort of). Now, astronomers have nailed down why and how

The moon may be our constant companion, but there’s still a lot we have yet to understand about it. For example, it was only during the Apollo missions in the 1960s and ’70s that we discovered it has an atmosphere, tenuous as it is. “People do not even know that the moon has an atmosphere,” said Nicole … Read more

Drawn to Mars, these researchers found themselves in Yukon instead

Drawn to Mars, these researchers found themselves in Yukon instead

Mars and the North have more in common than you would think. Their similarities brought around 80 astroscientists to Yukon this week, representing universities and space agencies from all over the world.  They were attending the eighth international conference on Mars polar science. This year, Whitehorse was chosen to host for its proximity to polar terrain, … Read more

Meet 2 Innu women trailblazers in astrophysics and land guardianship

Meet 2 Innu women trailblazers in astrophysics and land guardianship

Laurie Rousseau-Nepton says she wants to understand the very large and the very small, and that’s why she became the first Indigenous woman in Canada to earn a PhD in astrophysics.  Rousseau-Nepton received her PhD in 2017 from Université Laval in Quebec City. She said that at the time she wasn’t aware she was the first Indigenous … Read more

Grolar bear hybrids in N.W.T. all traced back to same ‘strange’ female polar bear

Grolar bear hybrids in N.W.T. all traced back to same ‘strange’ female polar bear

A family of polar and grizzly bear hybrids, or grolars, in Canada’s western Arctic — which all started with a “pretty strange” female polar bear — is “quite rare,” according to a new study.  The research paper, published last week in the journal Conservation Genetics Resources, used a new tool to look at samples from … Read more

Report predicts Hudson Bay polar bears could disappear in a few decades

Report predicts Hudson Bay polar bears could disappear in a few decades

Two subpopulations of polar bear in Hudson Bay will disappear in the next few decades if the world isn’t able to cap global warming at 2 C, according to a new multi-disciplinary study.  The report, published in the journal Nature, Communications Earth and Environment on Thursday, looks at various scenarios of warming and what it … Read more

Explorer Ernest Shackleton’s last ship found off Labrador’s south coast, says expedition

Explorer Ernest Shackleton’s last ship found off Labrador’s south coast, says expedition

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society says it has found polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton’s final ship, the Quest, 390 metres off Labrador’s south coast. (Royal Canadian Geographical Society/X) The last vessel helmed by famed Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton — lost for more than 60 years — has been discovered on the ocean floor, less … Read more

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter down but definitely not out

Ingenuity Mars Helicopter down but definitely not out

Last January, the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made its final flight with a landing that damaged at least one of its rotor blades and left it permanently grounded. But while it can no longer fly, it will continue to operate as a stationary Martian weather station. Ingenuity landed on Mars on February 18, 2021, under the belly of the … Read more