For Canadian astronaut Col. Joshua Kutryk, who grew up watching the Northern Lights dance across the skies above his family’s cattle farm near Beauvallon, seeing that same spectacular display from the other side of the atmosphere has been an experience he will never forget. Less than two weeks after launching into space aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission on October 1, Kutryk spoke with Canadian media on October 13 during his first press conference from the International Spa

From the wide-open skies above a cattle farm near Beauvallon to the vastness of space, Joshua Kutryk has spent much of his life working toward a dream that became reality on October 1. Kutryk, who grew up in the Beauvallon area and has deep ties to communities including Myrnam and Two Hills, lifted off aboard NASA’s SpaceX Crew-13 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 11:10 a.m. EDT. The Canadian Space Agency astronaut joined NASA astronauts Jessica Wa

Could Fan Jackets Help Dogs Beat The Heat? File Photo When summer temperatures climb, people are not the only ones feeling the heat. Dogs can struggle quickly in hot weather, especially older dogs, thick-coated dogs, short-nosed breeds and pets with health concerns. They cannot cool themselves the same way people do, and once they begin to overheat, things can become serious fast. In Japan, where summers can be extremely hot and humid, one company has taken an idea already us

Micro Duck in action. File Photo When people think about artificial intelligence, they often picture chatbots, computer programs or maybe even humanoid robots from science fiction. But one of the newest examples of advanced tech is a lot smaller, and a lot quirkier, than that. It is called Microduck, a tiny biped robot created by Pollen Robotics in partnership with Hugging Face. Standing about 25 centimetres tall and weighing less than 800 grams, the little robot is designed

Farm work has always taken people, equipment, patience, timing and a whole lot of long days. But the next piece of equipment moving through a field may look a little different than the tractors and sprayers producers are used to. Across Canada and around the world, researchers and ag-tech companies are testing farm robots built to help with some of agriculture’s most repetitive and time-consuming jobs. These machines are being designed to scout crops, detect weeds, spray with

From the outside, Alberta farming can still look much the same as it always has. Tractors move steadily across open fields, cattle gather along fence lines, and producers spend long days watching the skies, checking crops, and working with the land. But inside many of those tractor cabs, agriculture is changing fast. Screens, satellites, drones, sensors, and real-time data are becoming just as much a part of modern farming as grain bins and diesel fuel. Across Alberta, produc

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