Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1926, McGill physics professor Howard Turner Barnes and his team arrived in Twillingate to conduct thermite experiments. (The ...

People insisted this thermite experiment couldn’t work so I set up a safe, controlled test to find out for myself. With protective gear and precautions in place, I followed the theory step-by-step to ...

Finely powdered aluminium can make almost anything more pyrotechnically interesting, from fireworks to machine shop cleanups – even ceramics, as [Degree of Freedom] discovered. He was experimenting ...

Every year, thousands of people flock to Newfoundland’s shores to gaze at icebergs as they glide past. A McGill scientist made a similar journey a century ago, but instead of watching the bergs, he ...