technology

Nicolas Vaagen is using 3D printing to help people with disabilities live life to the fullest. Source link

A P.E.I. seafood company has a new way of storing lobsters, thanks to some UPEI engineering students who helped design a new “rainfall” storage system that makes it easier to load and unload pallets of lobsters, while keeping them wet and healthy. CBC’s Nancy Russell has more. Source link

Researchers in Kingston, Ont., are embarking upon a clinical trial that will look at whether very small doses of psilocybin — the hallucinogenic compound in magic mushrooms — can offer relief to people suffering from general anxiety disorder. Source link

Quebec’s forensic lab, the Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale du Québec, is the only one of its kind in the province using cutting-edge genetic genealogy to solve decades-old murder cases. Source link

A humpback whale has been struck by a Hullo Ferries vessel near Vancouver in English Bay, according to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Source link

The creature was discovered in August when Pender Island resident Kathleen Durant was walking her dog and came across what looked like a big, red jellyfish on the beach. But then, she saw an eye. Source link

An alien comet passing through our solar system made its closest approach to Mars recently, and two European robotic spacecraft orbiting the red planet turned to take a look. Source link

In about four months, Jeremy Hansen will launch with the Artemis II mission. The space pioneer met with elementary students visiting the Canadian Space Agency and answered their questions about the launch. Source link

The sun has coughed up three coronal mass ejections which, if Earth-directed, can produce the beautiful northern lights, and it seems that they are heading our way. Source link