If 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 are spawning in an area off the coast of Vancouver Island where a spawn has never been recorded. read more
A 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 have discovered a new and renewable source of water on the moon for future explorers in lunar samples from a Chinese mission. read more
Decades 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
Elon 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
A 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
A 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
Board 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
A pair of great horned owl chicks are delighting the community around Victoria’s Beacon Hill Park. read more
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Norm Wesley of Moose Factory has been wanting to write a book about Oojakaduck for about 30 years. read more
An 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
Every 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
This 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
The 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
Community-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
A 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
Bob 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
About 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
A 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
Mechanical engineers at Columbia University are trying to herald in a future where we could each have our own 'personal digital chef.' read more
However, 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
Republican 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
President 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
The 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
The 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 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
Growing 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 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