When the COVID-19 pandemic turned indoor gatherings into possible superspreader events, some people who are part of a religious community have had surprising success by breaking bread in virtual reality. read more
A western red cedar found in Lynn Headwaters Regional Park is likely 1,000-2,000 years old, experts say. read more
Google will automatically purge information about users who visit abortion clinics or other places that could trigger legal problems now that the U.S. Supreme Court has opened the door for states to ban the termination of pregnancies. read more
Environmental groups on Friday urged world leaders to keep promises they made at the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon this week, to do everything in their power to save the world's seas. read more
Amazing. Beautiful. Superb. These are words many people use to describe one of the sky’s most beautiful displays: noctilucent clouds. And the time is right for Canadians to try to see them for themselves. read more
On Sable Island, scientists can be found among the horses, seals and seabirds this summer. read more
With roughly 75 individuals left, southern resident orcas have not been getting enough food to meet their needs for years, according to UBC researchers. read more
NASA launched a satellite from New Zealand in an effort to experiment with a new orbit around the moon that it hopes to use in the coming years to once again land astronauts on the lunar surface. read more
The Yukon government's paleontologist is calling a frozen baby woolly mammoth found this week near Dawson City the 'most important discovery in paleontology in North America.' read more
You're in the mood for fish and your server suggests a dish of invasive carp. 'Ugh,' you might say. But how about broiled copi, fresh from the Mississippi River? read more
If you’re a morning person, there’s a treat in the sky before sunrise: five of the sky’s brightest planets all lined up among the stars. read more
While Canada produces many talented astronomers, astrophysicists and physicists, few of them are Black. The question is: Why? read more
Yukon paleontologist Grant Zazula and his team have already found the shoulder blade of a woolly mammoth, a complete tusk, some leg bones, a steppe bison, some horses and some caribou. read more
Saharnaz Safari and Sohrab Haghighat, spoke to CBC News about their company SpaceRyde alongside Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian astronaut to live aboard the International Space Station. Their goal: to make history as the first orbital rocket to launch from a balloon. read more
Fog can be predicted only a few hours in advance, if at all, because it's not well understood what causes it. A new study aims to change that. read more
The world's largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United States. read more
Ray St-Laurent owns an electric car. And an electric lawnmower. And an electric snowblower. “Whatever is new and neat” tends to get the retired mechanical engineer's interest. read more
Bob McDonald's blog: The moth's wings can absorb up to 87% of incoming sound, a handy trait when being hunted by a bat read more
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we examine the growth of 'garden suites' in urban areas and a trio of lethal lakes in central Africa. read more
Canada's nuclear waste agency says someone posing as an Indigenous chief convinced agency officials to put nearly $300,000 into a private bank account, money that was meant for a community development on a First Nation in Ontario. read more
The European Union on Wednesday agreed on new rules subjecting cryptocurrency transfers to the same money-laundering rules as traditional banking transfers. read more
Although the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act protects the privacy of medical files, it doesn't protect user's data in third-party apps or tech companies. read more
The game, titled 'Kyle Rittenhouse Turkey Shoot,' will use its proceeds to 'sue the leftwing media organizations for defamation,' according to the official website. read more
With less than a minute of recording, Amazon says that it can create a realistic sounding AI-generated voice that you can switch to on the Alexa voice assistant system. read more
Ian Scott told a Senate committee examining the bill that although the CRTC would not want to manipulate algorithms itself, it might tell platforms. read more
The use of face-scanning AI, especially on teenagers, raised some alarm bells, given the checkered history of Instagram parent Meta when it comes to protecting users' privacy. read more
The Liberal government's online-streaming bill, which has been the subject of fierce debate among members of Parliament, is now headed to the Senate. read more
The first full day of the Collision tech conference got underway in Toronto this morning as the industry grapples with a downturn. read more
In an email on June 2, seen by Reuters, Elon Musk told Tesla executives he had a "super bad feeling" about the economy and that the company needed to cut staff. read more
"The positive reinforcement is kind of like a rat smoothie. So it's avocado and banana mixed with ground-up rat pellets." read more