- CBC - Technology & Science News
- 23/10/3 18:13
Scientists' reverse-engineering of ancient buildings has revealed some impressive properties, like the ability to get stronger over time and 'heal' cracks when they...
Scientists' reverse-engineering of ancient buildings has revealed some impressive properties, like the ability to get stronger over time and 'heal' cracks when they...
The city of Montreal plans to add 30 more sponge parks and 400 more sponge sidewalks to its streets over the next two...
Conservationists are starting a new recovery program aiming to strengthen caribou herds in Jasper National Park that are too small to recover on their...
The carcasses of 120 river dolphins have been found floating in a tributary of the Amazon River over the last week in circumstances that experts suspect were caused by severe drought and...
Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for studying how electrons zip around the atom in the tiniest fractions of seconds, a field that could one day lead to better electronics or disease...
Sable Island ecologist Dan Kehler says the horses are most vulnerable in late winter when their energy reserves are low and grass is...
MONDAY 2. OCTOBER 2023
Scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that enabled the development of effective vaccines against COVID-19, the award-giving body said on...
Ontario's Great Lakes region is hailed by many as the greatest shipwreck diving area in the world, but due to invasive species and climate change, the province's rich underwater history might only have a decade or two before it crumbles to...
SUNDAY 1. OCTOBER 2023
A grizzly bear attacked and killed two people in Banff National Park west of Sundre, Alta., on Friday night, Parks Canada...
Pufflings, the small chicks of the Atlantic puffin, are struggling due to a lack of food and warming ocean temperatures.
FRIDAY 29. SEPTEMBER 2023
Astronomers say the evidence suggests the detected CO2 on Europa rose to the surface relatively recently from the moon's subsurface...
The Town of Banff is calling for homeowners to replace their fruit trees with something less appealing to wildlife after The Boss, a locally famous grizzly, had to be hazed from backyards, bluff charging residents in the...
Following some unfortunate incidents, questions have been raised about how safe autonomous vehicles are at this stage in their development, and what regulations would be required before they can fully use city...
A ghostly dumbo octopus stunned scientists 2,665 meters below the surface on an Ocean Exploration Trust expedition to Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in Hawaii.
THURSDAY 28. SEPTEMBER 2023
A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country, which has lost 10 per cent of its ice volume in the past two...
New research suggests an Ottawa-area freshwater turtle is under threat of extinction within the next few years due to the mass urban growth near its habitat in Kanata’s South March...
WEDNESDAY 27. SEPTEMBER 2023
Canada has lost more trees to wildfires this year than in any other year on record. It’s led some tree planters to question if their methods of the past have contributed to the fires of...
We all know an apple will fall down because of the Earth’s gravity. But what about an “anti-apple”? For the first time, scientists have “dropped” antimatter, and found that it, too, feels the downward pull of the Earth’s...
A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after being stuck in space for just over a year. American Frank Rubio set a record for the longest U.S. spaceflight — a result of the extended...
Canada is coming off its worst wildfire season ever. Can the devastating fires of 2023 help prepare us for...
A team of Canadian researchers have identified a new way to prolong the battery life of most laptops and cellphones after discovering a power-drainage flaw last...
TUESDAY 26. SEPTEMBER 2023
Canada has a patchwork of flood mapping where it has any at all. Efforts are now underway to change that.
MONDAY 25. SEPTEMBER 2023
The storms occur when there is a rapid drop in air pressure, which can bring heavy rain and powerful...
SUNDAY 24. SEPTEMBER 2023
Adam Ford, Canada research chair in wildlife restoration ecology based at the University of B.C.'s Okanagan campus, said there are many unknowns and variables when it comes to understanding the impacts of wildfire on...
A NASA spacecraft passed by the Earth on Sunday and released its capsule containing rare fragments from the asteroid Bennu, ending a journey that began seven years...