- CBC - Technology & Science News
- 13/4/10 19:47
Travellers can expect bumpier flights to and from Europe in the future. Researchers predict increased turbulence over the North Atlantic as carbon dioxide levels rise.
Travellers can expect bumpier flights to and from Europe in the future. Researchers predict increased turbulence over the North Atlantic as carbon dioxide levels rise.
A Canadian-led group of paleontologists is getting a detailed look at how baby dinosaurs developed inside their eggs, by examining an ancient fossil bed full of embryos.
Canada's smaller wireless companies have jointly announced they're withdrawing from the industry lobby group supposed to represent them.
Twitter and dodgeball — an unlikely pair, but several Mohawk College advertising students have thrown them together in order to raise money for Special Olympics Hamilton.
North Korea was responsible for a cyberattack that shut down tens of thousands of computers and servers at South Korean broadcasters and banks last month, officials in Seoul say, noting that an initial investigation pointed to a military-run spy agency as the...
Canadian consumers could soon face higher prices on electronics like TVs and iPods because it's going to be all but impossible for importers to exempt the products from a controversial tariff, a major electronics maker warns.
Japanese researchers say they've developed a way to decode your sleeping brain's activity using an MRI machine in real time - or in other words, "watch" your dreams.
Teachers in Texas are among those pioneering the use of digital textbooks that send them data - or "engagement indexes" - about how often students open their books, which pages they read, whether they skipped sections, and if they bothered to highlight important passages. Is this the future of...
TUESDAY 9. APRIL 2013
A series of strange, 100-million-year-old footprints suggest that at least some dinosaurs were decent swimmers, a University of Alberta paleontologist has found.
Online video is on the rise globally and TV viewers are increasingly multitasking — perhaps searching the web or using social media — during their tube time, a new survey suggests.
Radarsat-1, Canada's first and oldest Earth observation satellite, is semi-dormant and unlikely to recover fully, the Canadian Space Agency says.
Google is using unfair practices to cement its control over mobile internet usage on smartphones, a group of companies led by Microsoft alleged in a European antitrust complaint Tuesday.
Canadian scientists have planned a national response to combat white-nose syndrome, a disease that's wiped out entire bat colonies across the Maritimes.
Evidence gathered in a U.S. investigation of a fatal helicopter crash has raised questions about whether the pilot was distracted by personal text messages when he failed to refuel before taking off and misjudged how far the aircraft could fly without more...
As more and more Canadians adopt smartphones, companies such as Square, Interac and Rogers are trying to eke out a positon in the highly competitive — but still nascent — mobile payment marketplace.
A long-standing Arctic mystery has become even more baffling with research that appears to debunk a common theory about the demise of the Franklin expedition.
MONDAY 8. APRIL 2013
A personal website thought to have been created by Facebook's CEO at the tender age of 15 has been making the rounds online this week, provoking many to chuckle over lines like "Hi, my name is...Slim Shady. No, really, my name is Slim Shady. Just kidding, my name is Mark."...
Science has spoken and, yes, gentlemen, size does matter. A newly published study by a University of Ottawa researcher has concluded penis length exerts a measurable sway on females evaluating potential sexual partners.
Canadian scientists think they have figured out how monarch butterflies navigate all the way from Canada to wintering sites in Mexico that they have never seen before.
The National Energy Board is changing its rules for participation in public hearings, requiring potential participants or letter writers to complete a 10-page application form.
People in the U.K. have begun pre-ordering the keypad version of the new BlackBerry 10 smartphone - the first people worldwide to have access to the keypad version of the device.
While controversy over horsemeat in the European beef and pork supply has captivated people around the world, food experts say Canadian consumers are blasé about the mislabelled seafood in North America.
There are 240 billion different online addresses registered today, but only a limited number of top-level domains — at least for a few more weeks.
Ratings firm Nielsen and the large U.S. television broadcasters are eager to track and win back the growing number of Americans who have left traditional TV behind in favour of online services.
SUNDAY 7. APRIL 2013
University of Toronto prof taken to task by online info portal for class editing project