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'Forever chemicals' are in takeout food containers. Should you worry?
Emily Chung | News/Science | Thu, 30 Mar 2023 04:00:00 EDTIf you bought a salad bowl for lunch in a compostable container, that greener choice may have come with a dash of “forever chemicals” called PFAS, a new study finds. Should you worry? Here’s a closer look. read more
Herring spawn off northern Vancouver Island dazzles residents and animals alike
Courtney Dickson | News/Canada/British Columbia | Thu, 30 Mar 2023 09:00:00 EDTHerring are spawning in an area off the coast of Vancouver Island where a spawn has never been recorded. read more
Battery-powered 'shark' cleans plastic-infested waters
Reuters | News/Science | Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:49:59 EDTA robotic shark that gobbles up plastic waste has been let loose in London’s docklands, to clean up the water by removing the equivalent of more than 22,700 plastic bottles per day, according to its developers. read more
Scientists find water in beads from Chinese moon mission
The Associated Press | News/Science | Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:27:17 EDTScientists have discovered a new and renewable source of water on the moon for future explorers in lunar samples from a Chinese mission. read more
Logging near streams in B.C. Interior is warming water and threatening coho salmon: study
Winston Szeto | News/Canada/British Columbia | Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:32:12 EDTDecades of logging activities near rivers in B.C.'s Interior are driving up the temperatures of coho salmon habitats and threatening the species' survival, according to a new study. read more
Hit pause on AI development, Elon Musk and others urge
Reuters | News/World | Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:09:35 EDTElon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI's newly launched GPT-4, in an open letter citing potential risks to society and humanity. read more
Giant meatball with woolly mammoth DNA unveiled by cultured meat startup
Reuters | News/Science | Wed, 29 Mar 2023 07:58:54 EDTA giant meatball made from flesh cultivated using the DNA of an extinct woolly mammoth was unveiled on Tuesday at Nemo, a science museum in the Netherlands. read more
Halifax company pilots new technology to track lobster traps
Gareth Hampshire | News/Canada/Nova Scotia | Tue, 28 Mar 2023 05:00:00 EDTA Halifax-based startup is testing out new technology aimed at helping the fishing industry recover lost lobster traps and other fishing gear that can be deadly to marine life. read more
Vancouver Park Board asking residents to report Canada geese nests to help with population control
CBC News | News/Canada/British Columbia | Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:13:48 EDTBoard staff are asking for help locating nests in order to swap the eggs out for ones that will not hatch in an effort to control a growing population that is wreaking havoc in public spaces. read more
Pair of great horned owlets hanging out in popular Victoria park
Courtney Dickson | News/Canada/British Columbia | Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:28:51 EDTA pair of great horned owl chicks are delighting the community around Victoria’s Beacon Hill Park. read more
Nature puts on a show in this week's audience photo gallery
CBC News | News/Canada/Nfld. & Labrador | Mon, 27 Mar 2023 04:00:00 EDTHave a photo you'd like us to see? Email us! Our address is nlphotos@cbc.ca. read more
Moose Factory author brings to life the story of Oojakaduck or Fisher constellation
Sam Juric | News/Canada/Sudbury | Sun, 26 Mar 2023 07:00:00 EDTNorm Wesley of Moose Factory has been wanting to write a book about Oojakaduck for about 30 years. read more
After getting hit by a truck, this great horned owl has been rehabilitated and released back into the wild
Courtney Dickson | News/Canada/British Columbia | Sun, 26 Mar 2023 09:00:00 EDTAn owl hit by a truck near 100 Mile House last winter has been rehabilitated and released back into the wild, much to the excitement of those who rescued her. read more
Huge masses of foul-smelling seaweed in the Caribbean could cause headaches for sun-seekers
Nicole Mortillaro | News/Science | Sat, 25 Mar 2023 04:00:00 EDTEvery winter, millions of Canadians head down to the Caribbean. This year, however, tourists may have noticed something not-so-pleasant awaiting them on the beach: stinky, brown sargassum. What is it, and should you be concerned? read more
Here's what's behind the latest northern lights display
Christy Climenhaga | News/Canada/Edmonton | Sat, 25 Mar 2023 07:00:00 EDTThis month has been a good one for aurora photographers, and Thursday night featured auroras as far south as New Mexico. So what’s behind the latest light shows, and can we expect more? read more
Avian flu threat fades on farms but may be back in the fall
Philip Lee-Shanok | News/Canada | Sat, 25 Mar 2023 12:12:38 EDTThe Canadian Food Inspection Agency says only two poultry facilities here are dealing with avian flu outbreak. But as the virus continues to spread in the wild, there are worries about what could happen next. read more
Bison bone found in Prince Albert, Sask., area points to human life there more than 8,000 years ago
Pratyush Dayal | News/Canada/Saskatoon | Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:30:00 EDTCommunity-oriented historian David Rondeau says it is an important discovery, as it shows humans were in the area about a thousand years earlier than was previously known. read more
No aliens needed: 'Oumuamua's behaviour has a natural explanation, scientists say
CBC Radio | Radio/Quirks & Quarks | Fri, 24 Mar 2023 17:32:16 EDTA new theory suggests that radiation from interstellar space reconfigured ice on 'Oumuamua's surface to trap hydrogen gas that was released as a propellant as it approached the sun. read more
Flyover of Mars crater shows details of an ancient lake
Bob McDonald | Radio/Quirks & Quarks | Fri, 24 Mar 2023 15:10:50 EDTBob McDonald's blog: A new simulation video produced by NASA and the ESA shows off the planetary features that make scientists believe the Red Planet's Jezero Crater was a lake billions of years ago. read more
Fun with mechanical engineering: Sask. Polytech students get hands-on learning by building hovercraft
Dayne Patterson | News/Canada/Saskatoon | Fri, 24 Mar 2023 06:00:00 EDTAbout two dozen students at Saskatchewan Polytech have worked together to build hovercrafts over a month, and got a chance to test their abilities this week. read more
What the puffer-clad Pope Francis photos tell us about the future of AI images
Tech/Trending/AI | Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:37:06 +0000A worrying number of social media users were fooled into thinking AI-generated images of the Pope wearing an oversized white puffer jacket were real. read more
Bake to the future: Researchers 3D print a cheesecake, bake it with lasers
Tech/Trending/3D Print | Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:03:56 +0000Mechanical engineers at Columbia University are trying to herald in a future where we could each have our own 'personal digital chef.' read more
ChatGPT: Is it a good or bad thing? Canadians are divided, poll suggests
Canada/Consumer/Tech | Fri, 24 Mar 2023 08:00:28 +0000However, those who said they know of ChatGPT are far more likely to feel that it’s a good thing, compared to those who have not, an Ipsos poll found. read more
Utah signs first U.S. state law aimed at limiting teens’ social media access
Tech/U.S. News/Facebook | Fri, 24 Mar 2023 01:54:16 +0000Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed a pair of measures that aim to limit when and where children can use social media and stop companies from luring kids to the sites. read more
U.S. tech industry urging hard line on Canada’s online bills ahead of Biden visit
Canada/Politics/Tech | Wed, 22 Mar 2023 11:29:16 +0000President Joe Biden is meeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau later this week as part of his first visit to Canada since taking over the White House in 2021. read more
TikTok faces ‘pivotal moment’ as U.S. lawmakers seek ban, CEO tells users
Tech/U.S. News/ByteDance | Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:07:28 +0000The comments from CEO Shou Zi Chew, who will testify to a U.S. House committee this week, come as lawmakers seek to ban the popular app over national security concerns. read more
MPs summon Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg to face questions on blocking news access
Canada/News/Politics | Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:15:46 +0000The move comes after the company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, announced it would block news in Canada if the Liberal government's Online News Act passes in its current form. read more
Amazon slashing 9,000 jobs in second round of layoffs
Money/Tech/Amazon | Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:10:29 +0000Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company had added substantial amount of staff in the past few years, but the uncertain economy has forced it to choose cost and headcount cuts. read more
U.S. wants TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance to divest over security. Is it too late?
Canada/Tech/U.S. News | Fri, 17 Mar 2023 00:26:14 +0000Growing concerns over TikTok's potential risk to national security is leading to more government bans of the popular app, but TikTok says divestment won't solve anything. read more
Microsoft unveils ‘copilot’ for Word, Outlook and more as AI race heats up
Tech/AI news/AI word | Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:23:49 +0000Microsoft Corp on Thursday trumpeted its latest plans to put AI into the hands of more users with upgrades to its own widely used office software. read more
