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- 20/7/31 22:20
Two U.S. astronauts about to make the first splashdown return in 45 years said they'll have seasick bags ready to use if...
Two U.S. astronauts about to make the first splashdown return in 45 years said they'll have seasick bags ready to use if...
Even as Microsoft is reportedly in talks to buy TikTok, U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he was looking at lot of alternatives regarding the video app owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, including the possibility of a...
Residents of Ontario can now download a new app that can tell them whether they have been around someone who has tested positive for COVID-19 over the previous two weeks. But while government officials say the goal is to make the contact notification app available across the country, they can't say yet when it will be available in other...
Twitter says the hackers responsible for a recent high-profile breach used the phone to fool the social media company's employees into giving them...
The Arctic ocean floors just got a little less mysterious now that a team of international researchers has compiled the most detailed map of the Arctic seabed to...
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the role 'binners' play in diverting plastic from landfills and how offshore wind power could soon save energy consumers money.
THURSDAY 30. JULY 2020
Shaw is launching a wireless cellphone service for its customers in Alberta and British Columbia who buy high-speed broadband internet from the...
The biggest, most sophisticated Mars rover ever built blasted off Thursday as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be analyzed for evidence of ancient...
Michael Shideler's day-to-day work is what most little kids dream of doing when they grow up — using big machinery to search for fossils. But last month, the superintendent of Enchanted Designs ammonite mine near Lethbridge, Alta., was on site when his crew dug up a different special find: a 74-million-year-old "enchodus"...
A small Canadian mining company says it has found a way to mine nickel without spewing a ton of carbon into the atmosphere — an engineering challenge that no less than Tesla's Elon Musk says is the key to producing environmentally friendly...
The University of Saskatchewan has contracted two Canadian pharmaceutical companies to manufacture ingredients for its COVID-19 vaccine for the first stages of human clinical...
WEDNESDAY 29. JULY 2020
This week, the federal government released its first cellphone price tracker report, which shows there has been little movement in prices since the Liberals promised to reduce those costs by 25 per...
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning gardeners not to plant "unauthorized seeds" from packages they weren't expecting to arrive in the...
Two of Canada's provincial privacy officers say that they're still unable to release a full report about last year's security breach at LifeLabs because the company has gone to court to stop...
Nearly 3 billion koalas, kangaroos and other native Australian animals were killed or displaced by bushfires in 2019 and 2020, showed a study by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), triple the organization's earlier...
An international team of researchers surveyed the fossil record to paint a more detailed picture of how ancient moose survived and ultimately thrived across the northern hemisphere.
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Google's Sundar Pichai and Apple's Tim Cook are set to answer for their companies' practices before U.S. Congress on...
A lack of wild bees and managed honeybees is limiting pollination and yields for certain crops on farms in British Columbia and across the United States, a collective of researchers has...
Shopify Inc. is reporting $36 million US in profits in the second quarter on a nearly doubling of revenues as it reaped the benefits of COVID-19 lockdowns.
Two teenage girls from India have discovered an Earth-bound asteroid by poring through images from a University of Hawaii telescope, an Indian space education institute said on...
Scientists have succeeded in reviving microbes retrieved from sediment deep under the sea floor in the heart of the South Pacific that had survived in a dormant state for 101.5 million years, in research illustrating the resiliency of life on...
'The fact that the federal government has, on the quality side, not done any monitoring during the pandemic, is a serious oversight with huge impact,' says former N.W.T. environment minister Michael...
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is set to blast off on Thursday, and Canada is playing a vital role in its...
The gypsy moth is tiny but it poses an outsized threat to the environment and B.C.'s economy.
TUESDAY 28. JULY 2020
A second park in North Vancouver, B.C., has been shut down in order to protect the public as conservation officers continue searching for a food-conditioned black bear that bit a child on...
Researchers are hopeful J35 will deliver a healthy female, which the J pod population desperately...
Authorities in Maine said Tuesday the woman killed in a rare shark attack off the state's coast was a 63-year-old resident of New York...
The spacecraft Perseverance — set for liftoff this week — is NASA's brawniest and brainiest Martian rover yet. Here are some of its most notable gadgets and interesting features of its mission to find signs of ancient life on the Red...
Faced with a rising tide of online hate and advertiser boycotts, Facebook Canada will announce today that it is teaming up with Ontario Tech University's Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism to create what it calls the Global Network Against...
MONDAY 27. JULY 2020
Google says it is extending the ability for most of its 1,500 Canadian employees to work from home until at least next...
A pet cat has tested positive in England for the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the government said on Monday in the first confirmed case of an animal being infected with the virus in...
UBC researcher Richard Hamelin says the tool is a game changer because it brings the lab into the...
As more regions across the country adopt mandatory masking policies in an effort to minimize the spread of COVID-19, some anti-masking groups are joining forces with anti-vaccination proponents and adopting their techniques to spread misinformation and amplify their...
Calgary company formerly known as TransCanada Corporation plans a multi-billion dollar green tech scheme, but it faces obstacles familiar from its pipeline...
Alberta launched its site rehabilitation program to clean up oil and gas wells but the program has been plagued with delays as the government has struggled to process more than 35,000...
SUNDAY 26. JULY 2020
A team from the University of Regina hopes their tool, which helps farmers more accurately spray herbicides, reduces their environmental impact and boosts their bottom...
A Manitoba black bear rescue group is asking people in Pinawa to watch out for a lone baby black bear cub that needs to be reunited with its...
An early sockeye salmon run is having trouble making it up the Fraser River and the majority won't make it to their spawning grounds this year, largely because of the ongoing Big Bar landslide, according to a report from the Pacific Salmon...
FRIDAY 24. JULY 2020
GPS device-maker Garmin's online fitness tracking service has gone down, leaving runners and cyclists struggling to upload data from their latest...
The beluga whale harvest out of Aklavik, in the Northwest Territories, is down but not out. From a high of 35 whales harvested in 1981, it has hit zero twice in the past five...