Bob McDonald's blog: Scientists used climate models to show how planets around other stars with extreme environments could have a relatively benign twilight zone — which could mean a higher chance of life existing on these...

Some teachers are on uncertain ground, trying to determine if ChatGPT is doing student work.

A group of researchers led by a Canadian scientist have identified a rare gene mutation that could be associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. In a peer-reviewed study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, the researchers identified a mutation in a gene called...

An international team of paleontologists has found evidence that may change the modern understandings of the Tyrannosaurus rex and...

Lolita the orca will soon be swimming in her home waters of Puget Sound in Washington state after more than half a century in...

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the steps taken every spring in Canada to protect migrating salamanders and what this week's federal budget promised on greening the electricity...

Woodpeckers are resourceful and beautiful. But they’re a lot weirder than you might think

Herring are spawning in an area off the coast of Vancouver Island where a spawn has never been...

If you bought a salad bowl for lunch in a compostable container, that greener choice may have come with a dash of “forever chemicals” called PFAS, a new study finds. Should you worry? Here’s a closer...

A robotic shark that gobbles up plastic waste has been let loose in London’s docklands, to clean up the water by removing the equivalent of more than 22,700 plastic bottles per day, according to its...

Decades of logging activities near rivers in B.C.'s Interior are driving up the temperatures of coho salmon habitats and threatening the species' survival, according to a new...

Scientists have discovered a new and renewable source of water on the moon for future explorers in lunar samples from a Chinese...

Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society and...

A giant meatball made from flesh cultivated using the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth was unveiled on Tuesday at Nemo, a science museum in the...