• Storyful

    Student Experiments Launch Into Space on Board NASA Rocket

    Experiments designed by more than than 50 student and faculty teams were launched into space on board a sounding rocket early on Thursday, June 20, as part of NASA’s RockOn and RockSat-C programs.Footage released by NASA Goddard shows the launch at 5:30 am from Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia.The RockOn and RockSat-C programs allow college students and faculty to spend a week building experiments that are then launched into space onboard a sounding rocket. Credit: NASA Goddard via Storyful

  • The Telegraph

    A life-saving stroll: the many health benefits of a daily walk

    “Walking is a man’s best medicine”, said Hippocrates over 2,000 years ago – and a growing body of scientific evidence suggests he wasn’t wrong.

  • Local Journalism Initiative

    Proposed boarding house backed by Iqaluit planning committee

    A proposed 27-room boarding house in Iqaluit would be an affordable place to call home for people who currently live in shelters, says Laurel McCorriston, executive director of the non-profit housing organization Uquutaq Society. The City of Iqaluit’s planning and development committee voted to grant a development permit to Uquutaq during its meeting Tuesday, where city planner Mathew Dodds outlined Uquutaq’s plan. The society plans to construct the three-storey building with 27 single rooms in