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- 23/9/23 10:00
A spacecraft that has travelled more than 950 million kilometres is dropping off a care package on Sunday: samples from an asteroid that lies more than 100 million kilometres from...
A spacecraft that has travelled more than 950 million kilometres is dropping off a care package on Sunday: samples from an asteroid that lies more than 100 million kilometres from...
FRIDAY 22. SEPTEMBER 2023
Advancing Canada Water Assets (ACWA), a joint initiative between the City of Calgary and the University of Calgary, is applying the same techniques it used to monitor COVID-19 case numbers to track illicit drugs in the province's...
THURSDAY 21. SEPTEMBER 2023
From chatbots to avatars, some people are using AI to recreate interactions with their deceased loved ones — and help them...
Researchers at the University of British Columbia are pairing Japanese social robots with seniors to see how they interact and examine the potential benefits the robots, which can recognize voices and faces, could bring to seniors seeking some...
WEDNESDAY 20. SEPTEMBER 2023
A new study says a change in the algae growing in Great Slave Lake is marking a "new ecological regime" in North America's deepest lake. It'll "definitely" have an effect throughout the food web, says one of the study's authors, but we don't know exactly what that'll be...
The Marine Institute and OceanGate signed a partnership in early 2023, but it remains unclear if the Memorial University campus knew the ill-fated Titan submersible was unregulated, unclassed and...
TUESDAY 19. SEPTEMBER 2023
AI art may seem new, but the technology has been infiltrating our daily lives for some...
The Tablelands in Gros Morne National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the most unique landscapes in the world — and its orange peridotite rocks could hold the secret to finding life on...
A biologist at Cape Breton University is hoping a piece of technology used to keep people safe in the pandemic can help protect Nova Scotia's oysters against the effects of warming...
After a dismal start, the UN is hosting a "halftime summit" about its 15-year plan to meet a series of human-development targets by 2030. Delegates will try to focus on problems like extreme poverty and gender equality while watching for sparks between the representatives of Ukraine and...
A pediatrician, author and co-inventor of a low-cost COVID-19 vaccine warns that the anti-vaccine movement has morphed into a political force that threatens the world's gains against deadly childhood infections like...
MONDAY 18. SEPTEMBER 2023
People keep predicting that each wave of new technology will mean humans can put their feet up. It hasn't happened yet. Some economists and anthropologists who study the subject say even with the arrival of artificial intelligence, humans will remain integral to making the world go...
SUNDAY 17. SEPTEMBER 2023
As artificial intelligence becomes more common in university classrooms, some professors are weighing the benefits — and downsides — of students using it for research...
SATURDAY 16. SEPTEMBER 2023
Cement is ubiquitous, but the process of making it emits carbon into the atmosphere. The industry says there's no easy way to avoid that, which is why it's turning to carbon capture and storage technology as a way to...
Online group Girls Who Chase has created a global community of women who head into severe weather to record images, report damage and help scientists understand the impact of storms to be better...
FRIDAY 15. SEPTEMBER 2023
Scientists are using machine learning to decode and eventually translate how sperm whales communicate with Morse code-like clicks and...
Scientists have recreated the scent of the embalming fluid used to preserve a noblewoman more than 3,500 years ago — and they say it's quite lovely,...
Researchers calculated that if 30 per cent of vehicles in Chicago currently running on combustion engines were converted to electric, the reduction in pollution would save billions in health care costs every...
Two large grizzly bears followed 13 hikers down a trail in Banff National Park for 20 minutes — with one even making a few quick runs at the...
THURSDAY 14. SEPTEMBER 2023
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the carbon capture potential of the world's oceans and what effect beavers are having in the Arctic (spoiler: it's not...
NASA said Thursday that the study of UFOs will require new scientific techniques, including advanced satellites as well as a shift in how unexplained sightings are...
Certain strains of E. coli are capable of causing severe disease, by rapidly spreading through the human digestive system, wreaking havoc throughout the bloodstream, and eventually damaging the delicate kidneys. That's the situation right now during a large outbreak in Alberta, with hundreds of children now...
WEDNESDAY 13. SEPTEMBER 2023
Fisheries and Oceans Canada whale researchers recently spotted one of the largest pods of orca whales ever reported off the coast of Newfoundland and...
More than 80 per cent of B.C.'s water basins are experiencing level 4 or 5 drought conditions, with salmon in many parts of the province struggling to make it to their spawning...
Scientists say geoengineering, or doing things like intentionally increasing Earth’s reflectivity or blocking the sun, is a “really big deal” in slowing down climate change. Here are the ideas they are proposing.