NASA has selected space firms SpaceX, Blue Origin and Dynetics to build lunar landing systems that can carry astronauts to the moon by 2024, the White House's accelerated deadline under the space agency's moon-to-Mars...

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how physical distancing measures in cities could hurt climate action and dive into research that suggests Arctic warming could be beneficial for lake...

Like a lonely castaway on an island lost at sea, Sam Cramer is waiting for her next message in a bottle to arrive.

Nearly 13,000 people forced from their homes by flood waters in the Fort McMurray region likely won't be able to return home for at least a week, the municipality's mayor...

Economic lockdowns brought on by the coronavirus pandemic look set to cut global energy demand and carbon dioxide emissions by record amounts, the International Energy Agency said on...

We should foster a local food culture year-round, writes Joanne Will but now more so than ever during this COVID-19 crisis, we should support local farmers and food...

As I thought about my father’s isolation, I began to imagine how I would feel “trapped” in such circumstances. Life is the pursuit of human connection and self-expression. If there is one thing damaging to a mind, it’s...

An app developer in B.C.'s Interior is using his talents and spare time to create mobile ordering apps at no charge for small, locally-run restaurants, to help them keep their businesses running amid the COVID-19...

Anne-Marie Caveen is used to speaking on the phone regularly with her father, and driving up to Sudbury from her home in Toronto to visit him at St. Joseph's Villa where he lives. But as they both adjust to new ways of living during the COVID-19 pandemic, the way they keep in touch has changed as...

Some of the largest outbreaks in Canada have taken place in industrial workplaces, such as the hundreds of confirmed cases linked to meat-processing...

Members of Parliament gathered today for their first full session by videoconference. Viewers were treated to technical glitches and glimpses of politicians' personal tastes in interior decorating — and a remarkably civilized question-and-answer...

Research shows people in Pompeii reused discarded materials for building almost 2,000 years...

A P.E.I. farmer found something surprising in his field. It was a weather device called a radiosonde from the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric...

A Victoria-area e-commerce company and its chief executive officer have agreed to pay $6.75 million to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to settle charges claiming the firm assisted technology-support scammers by laundering credit card...

Some of Canada’s northernmost MPs are hoping the virtual House of Commons sessions starting Tuesday can lead to more discussions about broadband connectivity in non-urban...

Canada's House of Commons will reconvene today for virtual session on Zoom, a videoconferencing platform described by security researchers as a "privacy disaster." Watch it live at 12 noon...

With salmon season approaching, crews are working to get measures in place to help migrating salmon bypass a massive rock slide that has blocked the Fraser River north of...

Changes are coming to the Arctic so fast that scientists haven't even had a chance to understand what's there, a report...

'We have a highly motivated team, and everybody is willing to step up and do as much as they can,' says head of Saskatchewan lab, one of the most advanced infectious disease research facilities in the...

An associate professor of biology in Saskatchewan has raised the ire of other scientists after he claimed that most people in the province had already contracted the novel coronavirus and recovered from it, rendering the COVID-19 lockdown...

Twenty members of the Shaarei Shomayim synagogue in Toronto are said to have been victims of anti-Semitic insults during their prayer on Zoom, a videoconference...

With a little water and kitchen scraps, you can regrow many of your favourite vegetables at home.

A team of researchers has been given the green light — and money — to help find a way to avoid another pandemic. But scientists say history has revealed that when the worst is over, interest in a preventative vaccine tends to die...

In 2008, NASA announced that a new exoplanet was found orbiting a star 25 light-years away. But now it seems to have vanished. It turns out that it likely wasn’t a planet at...