Sudbury robotics team makes Canadian history with double qualification for world championships
For the first time ever, a Canadian team from northern Ontario has qualified for both the FIRST Robotics Competition and the FIRST Tech Challenge in the same year.
All-female crew, including singer Katy Perry, blast off on Blue Origin rocket
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin launched his fiancée Lauren Sanchez into space Monday with an all-female celebrity crew that included Katy Perry and Gayle King.
Ontario's severed ties with Starlink impedes access to legal services in remote First Nations
Indigenous legal advocates in northwestern Ontario are sounding the alarm over the Ontario government's cancellation of its contract with Starlink, citing concerns with people's access to legal services in remote First Nations.
N.L.'s wind-hydrogen hype is on fumes, but this Placentia Bay project is forging ahead
All the hype over hydrogen in Newfoundland and Labrador has subsided, but the company that operates the oil storage terminal in Come By Chance is forging ahead with a unique approach to delivering clean energy to Europe.
Can Canada grow more of its own food? Greenhouses, vertical farming make it possible, experts say
Our suddenly rocky relationship with the U.S. has a lot of Canadians rethinking our dependence on our southern neighbor, especially fruit and vegetable imports. Could Canada grow more of what we eat? And what would it cost us?
Canada will no longer cover travel costs of experts it nominates to UN's climate science body
In a sudden and unexplained change from previous decades, the federal government has stopped covering the travel costs of Canadian experts volunteering for the next major global climate science assessment.
De-extinction or pre-extinction? Biotech company's resurrected 'dire wolves' raise questions
Scientists created a version of the extinct dire wolf. But we should be directing our resources to preventing extinction in the first place.
Canada must seize 'window of opportunity' to attract U.S. scientists, health-care workers: medical association
Canada has a unique chance to become a medical and scientific powerhouse — if it moves quickly to scoop up professionals leaving the United States in the wake of health cuts and layoffs, the head of the Canadian Medical Association says.
This isn't a galaxy — it's a map of a mouse's brain
Scientists created a map of a mouse's brain while it watched clips of The Matrix. They say this research is a step toward discovering how human brains work.
#TheMoment a Canada goose battled a fox on the streets of Toronto
Wafi Ishmam Chaudhury recounts the moment he filmed a battle between a hungry fox and some alert Canada geese on the streets of Toronto.
'Sign of hope' for endangered killer whales as research centre confirms newborn calf
The Centre for Whale Research says the newborn was spotted swimming alongside a whale known as J40 near Victoria on Sunday. It's thought to be the orca's first calf.
Sask. beekeepers hope to avoid sting of killer parasite, tariffs on honey production
Bee population decline isn't the only concern among Saskatchewan apiaries. Hives are under attack from a bee-killing parasite and now honey producers are bracing for the fallout of a trade war.
There's a new comet in the sky, and it's already visible through binoculars
One of the great things about astronomy is that it’s always full of surprises, especially when it comes to comets — you just can’t predict new ones. But there’s a lot of buzz around a recently discovered comet that has quickly brightened.
A biotech company has, sort of, revived the long-extinct dire wolf
Colossal Biosciences made a surprise announcement Monday, claiming it had brought the dire wolf back from the dead, achieving the biotech company’s first successful de-extinction. But some scientists say that while the wolves’ existence is an impressive feat, they are not exactly as advertised.
'Don't have the headphones on': Safety urged as B.C. bears emerge from hibernation
Officials are urging residents to be alert and secure their garbage bins as B.C.'s bears wake up from their winter hibernation over the coming weeks.
Manitoba researchers decry funding cuts after premier's invitation to U.S. scientists
A call from Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew for scientists in the U.S. to consider moving here has researchers in this province demanding more funding to give those who relocate a reason to stay.
#TheMoment an endangered tortoise became a first-time mom at almost 100
Rachel Metz of the Philadelphia Zoo recounts the moment ‘Mommy’ — a 97-year-old Western Santa Cruz Galapagos Tortoise — produced four new hatchlings, becoming the oldest known first-time mother of her species.
Canadian scientist wins Breakthrough Prize for discovery of hormone used in Ozempic, Mounjaro
Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist and a clinician-scientist at the University of Toronto and the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Sinai Health, shares the $3 US million prize with four colleagues from the United States and Denmark.
Toronto's University Health Network launches scientist recruitment campaign amid U.S. health cuts, layoffs
Toronto's University Health Network says it has a new plan to recruit the best and brightest medical scientists from around the world, including the United States, where the government is laying off thousands of health researchers.
With 8.7 million birds dead, B.C. farmers assess avian flu toll, and worry about what's next
There is a window of relief for British Columbia farmers from the devastating waves of avian flu, leaving them to assess the toll of outbreaks spanning more than three years that saw millions of birds culled at hundreds of farms. But they also worry what the next migration of wild birds will bring this year.