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Security experts say new apps allow call makers to fabricate caller IDs, impersonate officers and then ask for personal...
13 articles from SUNDAY 10.11.2019
Security experts say new apps allow call makers to fabricate caller IDs, impersonate officers and then ask for personal...
Meteor showers originated from comet 55P/Tempel–Tuttle will be preceded by Taurids six days beforeOne of the year’s most dependable meteor showers is set to take place at the end of the week. The Leonids will peak in the hours between midnight and dawn on 18 November. They are so-called because they herald from a point in the constellation Leo – the lion. Known as the radiant, this point is...
The Keystone pipeline resumed moving crude oil Sunday after 1.4 million litres of oil were spilled in North Dakota in late...
These dragonflies flitted about 50 million years ago around the region we now call Kamloops, B.C.
Sea otters and seals in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Alaska, are infected with a virus that once was seen only in animals in the Atlantic.A new study suggests that melting ice in the Arctic may be to blame -- and that climate change may help spread the disease to new areas and new animals.Tracey Goldstein, a biologist at the University of California, Davis, got curious when sea otters in...
A University of Alberta PhD student observed some peculiar bear behavior when researching grizzlies in B.C., inspiring a rethink on roadside...
Several famous sites, like Glacier National Park and the Statue of Liberty, have been flooded, scorched, or damaged by climate-related...
A new survey of England’s dialects is instead likely to shine a light on social tribes and generational differencesAre you a blatherskite? Do you have murfles? Are you frightened of Old Harry? In the 1950s, the Survey of English Dialects sent fieldworkers across England to track regional variations in everyday words. Blatherskites were gossips, murfles were freckles and Old Harry was a...
Research scientists have largely gone unnoticed as major users of unrecyclable material. Now some universities are helping them kick the habitScientific research is a largely ignored consumer of single-use plastics, with the biomedical sciences a particularly high-volume offender. Plastic petri dishes, bottles of various shapes and sizes, several types of glove, a dizzying array of pipettes and...
A Toronto man is calling for stricter regulations after a fraudster locked down his laptop, accessed his personal files and threatened to release intimate videos, just by using his cellphone number. It had been fraudulently “ported” — transferred from his Rogers account to a Bell prepaid...