A warped wheel, a loose sprocket, and a bloody finger were a few of the challenges that reared up against the Canadian teams at NASA's Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Ala., Friday.

British scientists have unveiled a robot that can make its own scientific discoveries by coming up with hypotheses, designing experiments, and conducting them all on its own.

IBM Corp. is close to a deal to buy Sun Microsystems Inc., U.S. media reported Friday.

Shares of Research in Motion Inc. surged $11.86, or 19.3 per cent, to $72.85, in noon trading on Friday.

A Vancouver MP wants to amend the Criminal Code to target children and teenagers who use mobile phones and the internet to bully others.

Research In Motion beat its own profit forecast in its fourth quarter as the Blackberry maker attracted half a million more subscribers than it initially forecast.

There have been no major outbreaks of computer viruses among smartphones because no smartphone operating system is popular enough yet to let a virus to spread effectively, a new study suggests.

Suncor has been fined a combined $850,000 in two separate environmental cases, the Alberta government announced Thursday.

A private member's bill that sets medium- and long-term targets for Canadian greenhouse gas emissions passed its second reading in the House of Commons Wednesday.

Internet traffic in Sweden fell 33 per cent on the day the country's new anti-piracy law came into effect, according to Swedish online measurement firm Netnod.

FBI agents are investigating how a full-length version of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, one of spring's most anticipated Hollywood blockbusters, was leaked online this week.

The founder of Wikipedia has pulled the plug on a community-driven search tool designed to compete with Google and Yahoo and other search engines.

A school science fair project on how cellphones can distract drivers has the attention of P.E.I. Transportation Minister Ron MacKinley.

Bombardier Inc. announced Thursday that it will cut 3,000 jobs in its aerospace division, 2,500 of them in Montreal and Toronto, because of a decreased demand for its business aircraft.

Medical associations should not accept most funding from pharmaceutical companies and device makers, a group of physicians in the U.S. said Thursday.

The scientific journal Nature published a retraction of a study from 2000 in which researchers from Calgary and Korea said they reversed Type 1 diabetes in mice.

Carbon dioxide stored underground in nature eventually ends up mainly in fizzy water, not rocks - and that could have implications for artificial carbon capture and storage projects.

An American freighter that sunk nearly 70 years ago off of Australia's southeast coast has been located, ocean researchers said Thursday.

Computer users around the world nervously eyed their keyboards Wednesday amid fears of a new internet worm known as Conficker C.

People who go partially blind after a stroke may regain some vision after doing a set of visual exercises on a computer for several months, researchers say.

The 2009 winners of Canada's Gairdner Awards for medical research, also known as the "Baby Nobels," include a pioneering epidemiologist who guides doctors toward making better treatment decisions and a Japanese scientist who reprogrammed skin cells to become stem cells.

Three times as many ducks died in a northern Alberta tailings pond last year than the 500 originally estimated, Syncrude Canada announced Tuesday.

Researchers in Germany have discovered that Nefertiti, an Egyptian bust on display on Berlin's Altes Museum, has two faces.

Online scammers are trying to profit from fear of the latest big name in internet viruses by creating and promoting links to fake security software, according to security firms.