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11 articles from CBC - Technology & Science News
Federal COVID Alert app to collect more data to gauge effectiveness
Hailed by the federal government as a key tool in the fight against the coronavirus since its release last July, Canada’s COVID Alert app has been plagued by a nagging question: Does it really work? Now, federal officials have a plan to offer a better answer...
State actors have done 'significant harm' to Canadian companies, says head of spy agency
The head of Canada’s spy agency said today Canadian companies in almost all sectors of the economy have been targeted by hostile foreign actors — and named Russia and China as two of his main sources of...
Class project from 1993 helps prove flower grows on P.E.I.
A P.E.I. woman is excited to see the yellow trout lily get included on the provincial plant list after realizing she had collected it in a Grade 6 class plant collection project in...
Elon Musk puts up $100M US for global carbon capture competition
Tesla Inc. boss and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is offering a $100 million US prize in a four-year global competition to find a way to pull carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere or oceans and lock it away...
United Arab Emirates spacecraft Amal — Arabic for hope — closes in on Mars during historic mission
A spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates was set to swing into orbit around Mars in the Arab world's first interplanetary mission Tuesday, the first of three robotic explorers arriving at the Red Planet over the next week and a...
Allergy season starts earlier, lasts longer, gets worse with climate change
Across the United States and Canada, pollen season is starting 20 days earlier and pollen loads are 21 per cent higher since 1990 and a huge chunk of that is because of global warming, a new study has...
WHO says coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from Chinese lab
A World Health Organization expert says the coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and most probably jumped to humans via an intermediary...
Researchers record first-ever Canadian sighting of bee species in Windsor park
Master's student Janean Sharkey was stumped when she couldn't identify six of the bees she collected from Windsor's Ojibway — little did she know it was because these bees had never before been spotted in...
Stunning aurora borealis show across Manitoba expected to continue Monday night
Just about anyone in Manitoba who had clear skies over their heads Saturday night could have seen a stunning northern lights show over the weekend, and Monday night is expected to be another good...
Polar vortex delivers frigid temperatures to much of Canada
A polar vortex is being felt across the Prairies, two months later than usual but the frigid temperatures were in between –40 C and –50 C in some provinces. Ontario is expected to be in a deep freeze later this...
Hacker tried to contaminate Florida city's water supply, authorities say
A hacker remotely gained access to a Florida city's water treatment plant in an unsuccessful attempt to fill the water supply with a potentially harmful chemical, authorities...