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The Truth About Truth Serum

3 May 2024

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette....

The Folly of Water-Fuelled Vehicles

26 Apr 2024

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.

Springtime in Montreal Means the Scent of Asphalt is in the Air!

24 Apr 2024

So, what is asphalt and where does it come from? The source is petroleum, that dark viscous liquid found deep within the Earth, the product of once living organisms subjected to millennia of...

How to Spot AI Fakes (For Now)

14 Mar 2024

In a recent test, a little over a thousand American adults were shown eight videos, and they had to choose if the video was real or if it had been completely generated by an artificial intelligence...

The 鈥淩epronizer鈥 Merits Reproach

28 Feb 2024

We have become accustomed to seeing a lot of gobbledygook online. But the jargon that purports to explain the workings of the 鈥淩epronizer鈥 elevates bunk to new heights. What is the Repronizer? A...

Will the Right Boots Stop You from Slipping on Ice?

15 Dec 2023

Have you ever slipped on ice and fallen on your derri猫re? At best, it is unpleasant; at worst, it can send you to the hospital with a broken bone (or even kill you). Icy sidewalks and parking lots...

Dry Water? Let鈥檚 whet your appetite for some science.

1 Dec 2023

The poem, 鈥淢y country鈥, by Dorothea MacKellar, is recited by every preschooler in Australia. One line is of particular relevance:聽 鈥淎 land of droughts and flooding rains鈥.聽

Is This Gadget a Scam?

24 Nov 2023

Anyone who owns a car and who lives in snowy climes will be tempted by this. What if you could buy a small device that you left in your car and that magically melted the snow off of it and...

Can the Problems of the Future be Solved with Technology from the Past?

6 Oct 2023

Electric cars are often portrayed as an invention created to solve the issue of pollution generated from the exhaust emission of gasoline cars, but the electric car has been around the block before...

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