Much of the fish meal and fish oil that support farmed salmon and imported seafood consumed in Canada come from global supply chains linked to pollution, labour abuses, overfishing, and food insecurity in poorer countries.

Canada has long relied on its allies to get technologies like satellites into space. But as the cross-border relationship with the U.S. changes, a handful of companies — including the newest player, Canada Rocket Company — are trying to change that and capitalize on a growing market.

The first of more than two dozen endangered monarch butterflies tagged with radio trackers on the Prairies this summer has made it to Mexico to overwinter, a mere five weeks after fluttering off from Winnipeg.

Russia's health regulator said ‌Thursday that reports that a ​second person had ​fallen ill following the death ​of a worker at ‌a plague research laboratory in Siberia were false.

Scientist and physician Dr. Karl Deisseroth tells The National about the moment his kids lost it with excitement when he told them he had won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

A new online database catalogues the unique calls made by various groups of orcas on the West Coast, making the audio available to anyone.

Officials in northwestern Ireland say they’ve recovered a large Canadian buoy that floated from Nova Scotia across the Atlantic Ocean and washed up on a coastal island.

Since 1976, Montreal’s École polytechnique has been home to the only operational nuclear reactor in Quebec, which it uses solely for research purposes. Engineering firm AtkinsRéalis has donated $1 million over five years to the university to support nuclear research.

NASA has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, showing sunlight bathing ‌jagged crags formed billions of years ago as the car-sized vehicle continues to explore Earth's planetary neighbour.

The rare discovery of a nursery with billions of baby sea cucumbers in the ocean water near Sanikiluaq, Nunavut, is helping researchers better understand the species – and could some day generate income for the Arctic hamlet.

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.

There's a deadly disease that threatens to infect Manitoba frogs and salamanders — and it could wreak havoc if left unchecked. That's why Brandon University researchers are sampling amphibians to confirm what they fear is true: The fungal infection is already here.

Firefighters have raised alarms about hot, fast, hard-to-extinguish fires in lithium batteries from e-bikes in people's homes and huge storage batteries at a P.E.I. solar farm. Here's why lithium battery fires are a challenge and how to minimize the risks.

Invasive European green crabs killing lobsters and other valuable crustaceans in the waters off Newfoundland, fishers warn. Fisheries and Oceans Canada is looking for solutions to keep them in check, including turning them into pet food or fertilizer.

The debate over artificial intelligence is raging. Some say it’s our best hope for solving the climate crisis. Others warn it might just wipe out humanity. Between those two extreme futures is a much less hypothetical reality – AI’s huge impact on our environment, and on emissions, now. Analyst and advocate Ketan Joshi helps us unpack what’s at stake for the climate as the AI buildout ramps up, and how much progress this technology has made so far when it comes to emissions cuts.

The World Health Organization says Russian authorities told it that no cases ‌of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week.

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada announced it will be winding down operations at the Indian Head research farm over the next year. The province says it's still working on a plan for what to do with the land after the federal research program closes.

Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday in Stockholm.

A giant underwater wave of water connected to this year's El Niño weather pattern is making its way up the west coast of the Americas, raising alarm bells amongst scientists worried about how climate change is magnifying the impacts of the naturally-occurring phenomenon.

An unnerving story has emerged from southeastern Russia involving the death of 28-year-old woman from pneumonia and fears that she may have been exposed to a form of plague at the lab where she worked. But the