In an attempt to assert Arctic sovereignty, Canada is set to begin monitoring water traffic in the Northwest Passage using underwater listening devices, sources have told CBC News.

Support among residents of the Northwest Territories is waning for the proposed Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline, while interest in conservation is rising, according to the results of a poll released Monday.

A glitch in the electronic records system delayed medical test results for nearly 600 patients since January, Nova Scotia health officials said Monday.

Space flight can increase the virulence of disease-causing microbes such as Salmonella typhimurium, the main bacterial culprit in food poisoning, say U.S. researchers.

NASA is restarting a mission with greater capability for using high-energy X-rays to detect black holes.

A team of geologists has found seven deep holes on the flanks of a giant volcano on Mars, a discovery that may have implications for future missions to the inhospitable planet.

Scientists in Singapore say they have developed a portable device that can detect the H5N1 bird flu virus faster and cheaper than any other method.

Ban Ki-moon thanked leaders for sharing his environmental concerns at the largest-ever political summit on climate change, which drew officials like Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

A rugged low-cost laptop designed for kids in the developing world will soon be available to North Americans. For $400, they will net one computer to keep and one to give to a needy child.

Tapes and CDs helped P.E.I. birders count a record number of bird species over the weekend.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be among nearly 80 world leaders attending a United Nations summit in New York on Monday to spur action against climate change.

A Winnipeg mom was shocked to find pictures of her son that she had placed on the internet had been used to create a new personality for the boy on an international website.

The federal government's own environmental advisory body has lobbed sharp criticism at the Conservatives for their climate-change plan, accusing them of overestimating what the plan will accomplish.

Google is looking to lay its own trans-Pacific cable and cut its data transmission costs, an Australian trade news service says

BCE shareholders vote 97 per cent in favour of selling the company, and CEO Michael Sabia announces he will step down once the privatization is completed.

An open-source software group could force the first test of a prominent public copyright license with a lawsuit filed Thursday.

Mapping our DNA blueprint could go mainstream in as little a five years, predicts a Canadian researcher, and that could have huge privacy, ethical and societal implications.

U.S. roboticists have begun work on a lunar rover tough enough to drill through rock in the harsh conditions of the dark side of the moon.

A way has been cleared for consumers to legally burn films onto DVDs off the internet, after a meeting of Hollywood studios, technology companies and the group that licenses DVD software.

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.