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Ivan Semeniuk

@ivansemeniuk.bsky.social
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Journalist covering the universe and its inhabitants. Science reporter for Canada's national newspaper The Globe and Mail. Piano player with an inordinate fondness for E♭.

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Ivan Semeniuk @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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Meet MOTHRA, the thousand-eyed telescope in search of the cosmic web
A telescope array under construction in Chile aims to find the filaments that tie our universe together
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Ivan Semeniuk @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
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Is this the moment Canada gets serious about science and the economy?
The federal budget includes $1.7-billion to attract international researchers and support Canadian R&D and IP protections
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Ivan Semeniuk @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
University of Alberta’s David Wishart wins top Canadian science prize
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Ivan Semeniuk @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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How ‘Frosty,’ a rhino fossil dug up in Nunavut, complicates the story of how mammals roamed the Earth
Researchers, comparing bones from Canada’s High Arctic with European species, rethink how prehistoric life went from continent to continent
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Ivan Semeniuk @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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Neutrino results offer possible clue as to why matter exists
Two research teams that study neutrinos, the featherweights of the particle world, published their results in Nature this week
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Ivan Semeniuk @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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Clearest signal yet rattles gravitational wave detector at risk from Trump budget cut
Signal confirms Einstein’s theory of general relativity
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Ivan Semeniuk @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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UBC experiment aims to reignite cold fusion nuclear quest
Scientists are split on the significance of the Thunderbird reactor, the first verified case of electrochemically enhanced nuclear fusion
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Ivan Semeniuk @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
For years, the notion that Canada should develop its own domestic space launch capability has been met with "we don't do that here." Today a group of Concordia engineering students came closer than anyone else this century to proving the naysayers wrong. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Concordia University student rocket makes history but falls short of reaching space
Starsailor marks first ever student-led launch to receive approval from Transport Canada and first attempted space launch in country since 1998
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Ivan Semeniuk @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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For Canada, science and the world, AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton’s Nobel moment signals a pivotal shift
For the first time, four Nobel laureates, including Canada’s Geoffrey Hinton, are being honoured for work directly related to artificial intelligence. If anyone still needed a sign that AI has arrived...
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Ivan Semeniuk @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I wrote this story back when the Canadian Science Policy Conference turned 10. Now the meeting is 16 and just as necessary and important a forum as ever. #CSPC2024 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/tec...
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Marrying science and politics: The Canadian conference where politicos and researchers swap ideas
A decade ago, the conference’s creator, Mehrdad Hariri, first began dreaming of a public forum in Canada where scientists and policy-makers could meet
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