- CBC - Technology & Science News
- 09/8/29 23:46
The crew of the space shuttle Discovery were to spend part of Saturday, their first full day in space, inspecting the heat shield of the craft, and preparing to dock with the International Space Station.
The crew of the space shuttle Discovery were to spend part of Saturday, their first full day in space, inspecting the heat shield of the craft, and preparing to dock with the International Space Station.
A purported moon rock given to the Dutch government to commemorate the first manned lunar landing in 1969 has turned out to be only a chunk of petrified wood.
Canada's privacy commissioner, fresh off forcing Facebook to change how it handles users' data, is ordering Bell Canada to change how it informs internet customers of its network-management practices.
FRIDAY 28. AUGUST 2009
NASA said it has resolved a fuel valve issue on the space shuttle Discovery and is aiming for a Friday night launch.
Global climate change and its effects on crop production threaten the food supply of millions of people in Nepal, an international aid agency warned Friday.
Canadian astronaut Julie Payette made a triumphant return to the Canadian Space Agency headquarters in Longueuil, Que., Friday, her first appearance since returning to Earth aboard the space shuttle Endeavour.
An online classifieds website usually used for selling and buying second-hand goods has reunited a Calgary woman with the Saskatchewan birth mother she never knew.
Industry Canada has dismissed allegations that it is altering submissions from the public to its website on the current copyright reform consultations.
Anyone who has wondered what the odds are they may die in the next year may find an answer on a new online calculator.
France's top trade official is meeting Friday with the financial director of Apple France to discuss several recent claims by iPhone users that their phone screens imploded and cracked.
An environmental group has lost its legal fight to stop a U.S. government research ship from entering Canadian waters off the west coast of Vancouver Island.
Dell Inc.'s second-quarter profit was whacked 23 per cent as the personal-computer industry's slump dragged on this summer.
Different types of retina cells have been grown from human stem cells taken from skin, U.S. researchers say.
THURSDAY 27. AUGUST 2009
Hundreds of Canadians who have voiced their opinions on copyright reform through letters are having their comments filtered and altered by the government, a prominent internet advocate charges.
If an armed gunman is ever spotted on campus, Carleton University will use a new system to send emails and text messages to students and staff and flash messages on campus computer screens.
Google is making over a million books available for free download in ePub, an open format that devices such as iPods, iPhones and Sony Readers can use.
Palm's new device is a worthy challenger for Apple's dominance of the consumer smartphone market.
Canada's privacy commissioner is set to announce Thursday a timetable for changes to the globally popular website Facebook that will bring the online social network closer in line with Canadian privacy law.
WEDNESDAY 26. AUGUST 2009
Smaller schools across Canada are up in arms over a proposal from five of Canada's largest universities to concentrate research and graduate studies in the biggest schools.
An overheated laptop computer that was left on a couch caused a deadly fire that killed a 56-year-old Vancouver man, B.C.'s Coroner office has concluded.
Julius Genachowski, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, has vowed to defend net neutrality and to go after any company that violates it.
The same chemical compounds that make a glass of wine or ripening bananas so irresistible to fruit flies might also help drive mosquitoes away, scientists said Wednesday.
Electric and hybrid vehicles could soon be used to resurface the ice in Ottawa arenas and maintain local parks under a new plan to make the city's vehicle fleet more environmentally friendly.
One person and two companies are the first telemarketers to be fined by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for violating its do-not-call list.
Some UPEI researchers are looking into what is making fish sick in the Alberta oilsands and what can be done about it.