York community reacts to two-factor authentication
York’s two-factor authentication receives mixed reactions amongst students, faculty, and staff.
Tag: Science & Technology
York University Robotics Society’s upcoming projects
York University Robotics Society (YURS) sheds some light on robotics as a whole and explains their vision, including hopes to send their next rover to Mars.
Taking a look at deepfakes
Deepfakes, the technology responsible for face swapping, provides a fair share of positive and negative uses.
New lifeforms found deep beneath Antarctic ice
Scientists have discovered mysterious new lifeforms similar to sponges in a supposedly inhabitable environment in Antarctica.
York and University of Toronto researchers work on plan for cryptocurrency to go mainstream
The proposal is part of a nationwide design challenge for a Bank of Canada cryptocurrency.
Conservationists implore public to stop milking psychedelic toads
‘Toad licking’ describes the phenomena of consuming the psychedelic compound 5-MeO-DMT by way of milking the Sonoran desert toad.
York Observatory holds virtual party for Perseverance rover’s historic Mars landing
The event marks the successful landing of NASA’s fifth Mars rover.
What is love?
As Valentine’s Day rolls around, we’ll be taking a look at what really goes on inside our brains when we feel the powerful emotion of love.
Hard to be-leaf: Scientists engineer spinach plants to send emails
Talking to your plants gets a whole new meaning as scientists teach plants like spinach to communicate back to humans in an email-like fashion. Through nanotechnology, engineers at MIT in the U.S. have transformed spinach into sensors capable of detecting explosive materials.
Climate change may cause 2021 to be the shortest year in decades
Earth is spinning slower than it has previously, due to factors such as melting ice and the redistribution of water.