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8 articles from CBC - Technology & Science News
How pandemic lockdowns cleaned the air but resulted in a warmer planet
Earth spiked a bit of a fever in 2020, partly because of cleaner air from pandemic lockdowns, which resulted in fewer cooling aerosols like soot and sulfates blocking light from the sun and creating a temporary warming effect, a new study has...
Meet the hoodwinker, the ocean sunfish we misidentified for years
The Hoodwinker sunfish, or Mola tecta, is the subject of a collaboration between researchers in Canada, New Zealand and California who are working to expose the sunfish that’s been hiding in plain sight, using crowd-sourced data from photographs and sightings along North America’s west...
Amazon's Jeff Bezos stepping down nearly 30 years after founding company
Amazon said Tuesday that Jeff Bezos is stepping down as CEO later this year, a role he's had since he founded the company nearly 30 years...
Novavax took more traditional approach to develop COVID-19 vaccine
The Novavax vaccine, now closer to joining Canada's COVID-19 inoculation program, differs from the two vaccines Canadians are currently receiving to guard against the respiratory illness, primarily because of the way it's engineered to induce an immune response in the...
U.S. billionaire buys SpaceX flight for 1st all-civilian space mission
A U.S. billionaire who made a fortune in tech and fighter jets is buying an entire SpaceX flight and plans to take three "everyday" people with him to circle the globe this...
Development in wildlife corridor in Canmore back for debate at council
Plans for two projects, which make up about 80 per cent of the remaining developable land in Canmore, show they could almost double the town's population to nearly 30,000 in the coming...
Nature should be at the heart of economic planning, says U.K. report
A report commissioned by the British government urges policymakers to stop measuring prosperity only in terms of gross domestic product and elevate nature and biodiversity as key in economic...
Alberta tech companies blossom during pandemic's economic drought
At a time when many other businesses are suffering, this sector has found a way to harness the pandemic to grow their...