Arctic sea ice has shrunk to its lowest levels since record keeping began nearly 30 years ago, reaching a minimum area last weekend that was over a million square kilometres less than the previous low, scientists said Thursday.

Canada's technology sector is in dire need of new venture capital and is at risk of shrivelling up, according to global auditing firm Deloitte

A diminutive humanoid fossil found on a remote island in Indonesia represents a new species, and not a modern human with a growth defect, according to scientists who published new evidence on Thursday.

Velociraptors, the vicious predator dinosaurs made famous in the film Jurassic Park, appear to have had feathers in real life, scientists reported Thursday.

One in five Americans say they're having less sex to spend more time on the internet, text messaging and similar technologies, a new survey suggests.

Saskatchewan has certified a class-action lawsuit against Canada's cellphone providers, which could ignite a struggle over billions of dollars paid in monthly "system access fees."

The neutron is more like an onion when it comes to electromagnetism, physicists say, with a negatively charged exterior and interior and a positively charged middle sandwiched between them.

The scheduled attachment of the external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters to the space shuttle Discovery has been delayed as NASA continues repair work on a leaking hydraulic seal.

Animals faced with a less-than-ideal selection of potential mates can compensate to increase the chances their offspring will survive, scientists said Tuesday.

Barrick Gold has offered a $10 million US prize to anyone who can figure out how to extract the silver from the ore at its Veladero gold mine in Argentina.

The provincial plan to replant the forest killed by B.C.'s mountain pine beetle infestation could take more than a thousand years to complete according to recent figures.

Speeding vehicles on the Gondola Point Road had better watch out for the Rothesay Freedom Militia and Chowder Club.

Hundreds of people flocked to get medical treatment after an apparent meteorite crashed in a remote part of southern Peru over the weekend, health officials said.

Serious budget problems at Environment Canada are threatening wildlife programs and services within the federal department, CBC News has learned.

Researchers aboard the Canadian Coast Guard ship Amundsen are slowly mapping parts of the Northwest Passage beyond established shipping routes.

Intel has unveiled microprocessors based on 45-nanometre technology, the smallest computer chips to date.

Astronomers have found that Neptune's south pole is 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the planet, largely because it spends its 40-year summer tilted toward the sun.

IBM is offering free desktop software over the internet, joining Google in assailing Microsoft's dominance through its Office suite.

Google has launched free presentation software to go head to head with Microsoft's PowerPoint and announced the availability of its popular AdSense advertising platform for mobile devices.

British Columbians planning a trip south to Washington should beware: drivers in the state could soon be fined for using cellphones to send text messages while behind the wheel.

The New York Times will make access to all its online content free starting Wednesday.

The United Kingdom will be the first European country to get Apple Inc.'s iPhone, after the company announced the mobile phone operator O2 would be the exclusive carrier of the mobile device.

Many consumers who manage their money through online banking services may be unaware of their financial institution's security requirements, according to a study out of Ottawa's Carleton University .

Yahoo is taking aim at Facebook by testing its own social networking site, called Mash, which lets users edit each other's profiles.