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Canada is lagging in robotics adoption, industry watchers say, especially outside of the auto sector. At the same time, robots are taking off, thanks to a boom in China and new approaches incorporating AI. At a time when Canada is concerned about productivity, are we missing the boat?
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The testing centre will be located next to the University of Regina at Innovation Saskatchewan's research and technology park. It will house two "test loops” that simulate a part of a small modular reactor.
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Marketed as an alternative to mined diamonds, lab-grown stones are growing in popularity among engaged couples, taking some of the shine from mined or "natural” diamonds, which have traditionally dominated the market.
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A Windsor man says he is being asked by the city to undo the repairs he made to his backyard. Robert Redmond says he took out the berm, worth 52 dump truck loads of dirt, from his backyard at about $6,700. Now, the city is asking him to put it back. But that could cost upwards of $50,000.
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A heavy dust storm swept across Libya on Tuesday, reducing visibility, forcing the temporary suspension of flights at two airports and shrouding cities there with a thick orange haze.
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The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, put on a show in parts of Canada, the U.S. and Europe overnight Monday into Tuesday, with the vivid display seen much farther south than usual amid intense geomagnetic and solar radiation storms. Video that has been verified by Reuters shows shimmering green and pink hues in the sky over the...
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Whether you call it radiation fog, ground fog, valley fog or a temperature inversion, it all comes down to the same physics: the atmosphere flipping upside down. CBC's Johanna Wagstaffe breaks down how a high-pressure system can turn our valleys into bowls of clouds.
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Veronika the brown cow's dexterous and graceful tool use upends long-held assumptions about the intelligence of cows, say scientists.
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If you're lucky enough to have clear skies tonight, you might want to go out and look up, as the northern lights could put on a decent show Monday night.
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While dense fog continues blanketed parts of the Lower Mainland to start the week, sea and air transportation pressed on. As Troy Charles finds out, a combination of old and new technology is helping crews navigate the low visibility.
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Recent nuclear fusion news from Canada and China has created a buzz. Meanwhile, new fusion startups have been popping up around the world, and have drawn billions in private investment. But how close are we to having fusion power plants?
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Penguins in Antarctica are changing their breeding habits at record speed to survive rising temperatures from climate change, a decade-long study has found.
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A solar storm brought colourful northern lights — a.k.a. aurora borealis — across Canada, the United States and parts of Europe Monday night.
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These pet owners want more trapping regulation near community areas and clearer signage about where traps are laid because their dogs got caught - and one was killed - in wildlife traps.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (5 days ago)
X, formerly Twitter, was down for tens of thousands of users worldwide on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
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NASA is preparing to send astronauts to the moon as early as next month, which will include Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen. But first they need to ensure the rocket and spacecraft are ready to fly.
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A new study documents the surprising prevalence of 'supersuckling' among Galápagos Islands sea lions.
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St. Clair claims that Grok 'created and disseminated altered, deepfake content' of her on the social media platform X 'in sexually explicit poses.'
ReadGlobal News - Technology (6 days ago)
The Elon Musk-owned company announced Wednesday it would restrict AI chatbot from 'nudifying' images of real people in certain jurisdictions.
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An earthquake which struck near the Alaska-Yukon border last month has revealed a fault line hidden beneath ice, drawing international research interest.
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NASA's Crew-11 landed back on Earth on Thursday from the International Space Station (ISS), after their six-month stint in space was cut short by a few weeks due to a crew member's undisclosed medical condition.
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An iceberg that was once the biggest on the planet is floating off into the South Atlantic Ocean, where it will soon melt away into watery oblivion. But it's going out in style.
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On Monday, Indonesia and Malaysia became the first countries in the world to block Grok AI, citing concerns over non-consensual deepfakes.
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The pots were created using a mix of wild and commercial clay, and were placed in the waters of Cranberry Cove in December.
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Most of us abandon New Year's resolutions within four months. But experts say it doesn't have to be that way — and if you want to make your good intentions stick, there are ways to use science to work in your favour.
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Atmospheric rivers — and the flooding they bring — are intensifying with climate change.For the past decade, the same hurricane hunter planes used to study cyclones have been flying straight into these West Coast rain-makers. Why? Because the data they collect proves these flights can significantly improve forecasts. CBC's Johanna Wagstaffe...
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The internet loves a cat video - and a wildlife encounter captured on film in northwestern Ontario this January is no exception. The footage features a group of lynx, including three kittens.
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Lucky 7 Cattle Co., near Sedgewick, Alta., started 2026 with a bang, welcoming a set of healthy triplet calves — for the second year in a row.
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Eutelsat, a company largely owned by the French and U.K. governments, is offering Canada an alternative to Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband communications in the Far North. The company says it can create secure channels that cannot be disconnected for "political" reasons.
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A black bear cub caught in a fire this past December continues to make a recovery in Smithers, B.C. Rescuers said the bear was burnt while hibernating in a slash pile set on fire near Dawson Creek, B.C.
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Moscow used its hypersonic 'Oreshnik 'missile to target critical infrastructure near Lviv in western Ukraine. Its use of the missile is being seen as more about political messaging, than battlefield strategy.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 weeks ago)
Most of the employees working in Halifax supported a mobile version of the game known as Assassin's Creed Rebellion, and they also worked on Rainbow Six Mobile.
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Researchers hunt each other in the Quebec wilderness — for science, of course
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"We have to understand that it's not a question of if the glaciers are going to disappear, they are going to disappear," warns Brian Menounos, a professor of earth sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia
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NASA curtails space station mission after astronaut medical issue
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Pilots can't see it coming, and it's hard to avoid. But severe clear-air turbulence can shake a plane 'like King Kong.' It's on the rise, and forecast to get worse due to climate change. The rise has researchers investigating how to better predict clear-air turbulence, and looking to the physics of birds to make this chaotic force less dangerous.
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In one of the most important meteorological events in the province's history, successive bouts of freezing rain left thick layers of ice over everything in southern Quebec during a week-long span in January 1998, knocking out power for millions of people.
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A team of international researchers, led by a University of British Columbia astrophysicist, has discovered a young galaxy cluster that was producing hot gas at a rate five times hotter than previously theoretically thought possible.
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A pod of orcas surprised people on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast earlier this month by swimming close to shore and rubbing their bellies on the rocks — a behaviour an expert says few killer whales around the world have been observed doing.
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A mountain gorilla has given birth to twins in war-ravaged eastern Congo, a national park announced on Wednesday, in what it described as "a major event" for the endangered subspecies.
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A spider with extraordinary genitalia, a carnivorous caterpillar that wears its prey's body parts, and a tiny opossum are among the cool new species described by science in 2025.
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From the Arctic to the Titanic, 88-year-old Joe MacInnis reflects on the dives and discoveries that instilled in him humility and awe for the ocean.
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This year's snowy owl migration is marked by the bird's recent classification as a threatened species by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.
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Bob's Blog: "It's been a profound experience to actually feel how slow we are by watching myself grow old as we take our first baby steps among the stars"
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In no particular order, Bob McDonald reviews 10 of the most fascinating accomplishments and noteworthy science news events of 2025.
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A magnitude-9.0 earthquake off Vancouver Island would cost B.C. $128 billion in economic losses, according to a provincial report.
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Kate McLean-Mackenzie has has spent the last 15 years analyzing and recording the smells of 40 towns and cities across the world
ReadCBC - Technology (3 weeks ago)
This year brought us our third-known interstellar visitor, beautiful displays of the northern lights and the opening of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory that will change our views on the universe in ways we have yet to understand. But now, we look ahead to just some of the cool things skywatchers might want to keep an eye on in 2026.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (3 weeks ago)
In one notable case, a Toronto lawyer is facing a criminal contempt of court proceeding after including cases invented by ChatGPT in her submissions earlier this year.
ReadCBC - Technology (4 weeks ago)
Now, environmental groups and others are concerned that the apparent pivot from the Carney government will reverse years of progress made on nature conservation. Among the initiatives now facing uncertainty: new national parks and protected areas, as well as federal support for the Indigenous guardians program.
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In a new book called Why Whales Sing, Eduardo Mercado details his life's work to try and understand what whale songs are all about.
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Two young moose have been removed from the northwest Calgary community of Arbour Lake after a run-in with a dog that resulted in minor injuries for the pet.
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Frustration grows in Niagara Falls, Ont., with no clear progress on fate of Marineland and belugas
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Some London-area butchers say the availability of holiday turkeys is unchanged, despite an ongoing avian influenza outbreak in Ontario that's seen tens of thousands of birds culled.
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The wise hardworking beaver is considered a keystone species. Found in every province and territory, beavers balance ecosystems with their industrious dams. They also have a special place in many Indigenous cultures.
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Environment and Climate Change Canada's top 10 weather stories of the year include the second-worst wildfire season on record and droughts that stretched across the country.
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Scientists were recently greeted with a most unexpected surprise when a polar bear mother and her cub were walking near Churchill in mid-November when scientists witnessed the mother adopt a second cub, marking just the 13th such case of cub adoption within the western Hudson Bay study population of northeastern Manitoba.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (A month ago)
The hacking group ShinyHunters shared data with Reuters from what it said were users of Pornhub's premium service, and said it was demanding ransom in Bitcoin to delete the data.
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After nearly 50 years living on a kitchen floor in New Jersey and eating a diet of mainly cat food, Rockalina the turtle was in rough shape. But after 11 months of rehabilitation, she's thriving — and she even has an itty-bitty new friend.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (A month ago)
Outages were reported in Canada with more than 2,900 reports at 9:22 a.m. ET while the U.K. had more than 8,800 app issues as of 9:22 a.m. ET.
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Baby, it's cold outside — but it's worth putting on that heavy winter coat, scarf and boots and heading out for one of the best meteor showers of the year: the Geminids.
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It may still be an uncomfortable subject for some, but periods are a real thing that people need to manage. But what do astronauts do in space? Well, they have some options, but now they may have one more.
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Researchers from Dalhousie University were trying to study how northern resident orcas find salmon to eat, but they ended up finding an unexpected symbiosis with another species — dolphins.
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Astronaut Jeremy Hansen talks to Bob McDonald about the final preparations for his 10-day mission around the moon, where Hansen and his crewmates may become the first humans to see entirety of the Earth and moon, in one view
ReadGlobal News - Technology (A month ago)
The federal government is using artificial intelligence to sort through public input on AI policy.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (A month ago)
The civil claim was filed after Canadian privacy commissioners reached similar conclusions about TikTok's targeted advertising practices and age verification measures.
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The Spruce City Wildlife Association has reconnected a side channel at Cottonwood Island Park to the Nechako River, restoring a critical fish habitat and preventing fish from being trapped and left to die during periods of low water.
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Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens staff initially dismissed a suggestion by a visitor that their 40-year-old ginkgo tree had suddenly started producing stinky seeds.
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Thirteen years after an attempted escape from an IKEA parking lot, Darwin the monkey has been living out his life at Storybook Primate Sanctuary, the only one of its kind in Canada. He may be shy, but volunteers say he is thriving.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (A month ago)
The agreement follows a weeks-long bidding war where Netflix seized the lead with a nearly US$28-a-share offer that eclipsed Paramount Skydance's nearly US$24 bid.
ReadCBC - Technology (2 months ago)
Another mass die-off of Canada geese has been found near Winnipeg, this time north of the city.
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The latest earthquake in Japan on Dec. 8, which triggered widespread shaking and tsunami alerts, served as another clear example of the nation's world-leading earthquake response efforts. CBC's Johanna Wagstaffe explores the factors that make Japan stand out and the lessons other earthquake-prone countries can learn from their approach.
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A remote camera on Hawaii's erupting Kīlauea volcano captured the moment a lava fountain engulfed it and knocked it offline on Saturday. Kilauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, has been erupting intermittently since Dec. 23, 2024.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 months ago)
Canada's privacy commissioner is investigating the alleged use of facial recognition technology in billboards near Union Station after it received complaints from the public.
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This could be an unusually good year to spot snowy owls in southern Canada. Here's why, and how to see these Arctic visitors without disturbing them.
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Wild boars have been declared "a pest in all circumstances" by the Alberta government effective Dec. 1, meaning new restrictions have been placed on keeping them in captivity and hunting them in the wild.
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Japan lifts tsunami advisories after powerful earthquake off northern coast
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Ancient boat unearthed off the coast of Egypt believed to be a 'pleasure barge' fit for a king
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Conservation groups are raising concerns as the City of Winnipeg considers changing a development bylaw designed to help save birds from fatal window strikes.
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After Canada announced Tuesday it wouldn't list the American eel under the Species at Risk Act, some First Nations people with cultural and spiritual ties to the species are questioning the decision.
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Dozens of Canada geese are dead in Niverville as a result of a confirmed avian flu outbreak.
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A mild fall and long migration is being blamed for increasing numbers of poultry farms coming under orders to contain the spread of highly infectious bird flu. One turkey producer in Alberta is preparing to restart operations after his third such outbreak in four years.
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Bob's Blog: A project designed to track thousands of animals from space, which was halted due to the Russia-Ukraine war, has just returned to space better than ever.
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Stargazers were treated to a spectacular sight on Thursday evening as a supermoon, the last one of 2025, lit up the night sky.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 months ago)
Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon told a House of Commons committee the updated strategy will come next year, after saying in the fall it would come this year.
ReadCBC - Technology (2 months ago)
We've all come to appreciate the beautiful images space telescopes provide us of galaxies, nebulas and more, but they also provide astronomers with important scientific information about our universe. That science may be under threat in the next decade if the proposed 560,000 satellites are launched.
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As the number of birds culled due to an avian flu outbreak on turkey farms near Strathroy, Ont., approaches 100,000, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says they won't provide staff for media interviews for fear they will be subject of harassment, or death threats.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 months ago)
A 17-year-old teen is facing charges after being accused of using artificial intelligence to create child pornographic material involving several girls from Calgary-area schools.
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The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is limiting the use of its 973 Chinese-made drones to non-sensitive operations, stating the devices present "high security risks, primarily due to their country of origin."
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Canada's weather warnings have changed to a new colour-coded, risk-tiered system implemented by Environment and Climate Change Canada. The three alert levels — yellow, orange and red — are based on the potential impacts of a weather event and the forecast confidence.
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A newly published study shows the bacteria in the spray from the whales' blowholes can indicate how healthy the individual is.
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The Nature Trust of New Brunswick has found a scaly fringe lichen east of Fundy National Park, which one researcher says is the easternmost occurrence for the species on record.
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In a new study, scientists discovered that raccoons who live in the city have shorter snouts, suggesting that they're moving toward domestication.
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Iren, the company behind major data centres in northern B.C. is converting its infrastructure from bitcoin mining into AI storage. The Australia-based company is upgrading equipment at its sites in Prince George, Mackenzie and Canal Flats sites.
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A network of sensors that can provide crucial seconds notice of a possibly serious earthquake is now up and running in Quebec and eastern Ontario.
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The Paulatuk Hunters and Trappers Committee and Fisheries and Oceans Canada implanted acoustic tags in nearly 40 Arctic char this past summer. The intent is to better understand where char are spending their time and when they're migrating, as they respond to a shifting climate.
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Recovery and aid efforts are underway in parts of Southeast Asia and South Asia where the full number of dead and missing are not yet known after heavy rains and flooding left a devastating toll in the past week.
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More than half of Canadian households have at least one pet. Humans are eager to deepen their connection with animals, but the current science of cloning and decoding animal communication doesn't bring us close enough.
ReadCBC - Technology (2 months ago)
Renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is perhaps best known for his podcast "Star Talk,” where he discusses covers various topics with scientists from around the world. He sat down with CBC News recently to talk about being deepfaked and what it is about the cosmos that keeps him up at night.
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Bob's Blog: A long-delayed project to build the largest telescope in the Northern Hemisphere atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii has been given new life, as Spain has offered new funding and a new location on the island of La Palma.
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Researchers believe Elysia chlorotica holds promise for medical advances, but it's been too elusive to study.
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Efforts to locate the bear that attacked a school group near Bella Coola, B.C., last Thursday are still underway. The rare attack that injured four people is prompting questions about what should happen to the animal if it's found.
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The Point Lepreau Bird Observatory is marking 30 years of monitoring the seabird migration in a location perfectly positioned to capture the entire migration pattern of more than 100 different species.
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What we see in our universe only accounts for roughly five per cent of what's out there. The remaining 95 per cent is invisible. But now, a researcher at the University of Tokyo says he's seen at least part of that invisible universe.
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In 2014, the term "polar vortex” burst on the scene across Canada and the U.S. as temperatures plunged. In some places, it was colder than it was on Mars. Well, get ready to hear more about it.
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The barn owl, one of Canada's most endangered owls, isn't native to Alberta and is considered extremely rare anywhere in the province, which is why wildlife photographers were shocked when one made a surprise appearance in a Calgary park.
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From infrared thermal cameras to hydrophones, these B.C. residents offered up space on their properties as researchers look to help safeguard marine mammals.
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B.C. conservation officers say a second grizzly bear has now been captured in Bella Coola, though it has not been established whether the animal was involved in last week's attack on an elementary school group.
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Why are bridges first to get slippery, even before a snowfall? Watch to learn as CBC's Riley Laychuk explains why.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 months ago)
The toys are cute and marketed as educational and interactive companions that encourage children's creativity. But child development experts caution that the opposite may be true.
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Downtown Dawson Creek isn't where you might expect to take a tour of the history of the Space Race. But hidden inside an autobody shop, space historian Nick Proach has filled the city's newest museum with dozens of scale model rockets that have appeared in museums, world fair exhibits, and even aboard NASA spacecraft.
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Bob McDonald's Blog: Recent studies show that using chatbots like ChatGPT may get us information faster than ever before, but we're not gaining much knowledge by using it.
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We're taking your questions for Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen before he blasts off to space for the Artemis II mission where he'll become the first Canadian to fly around the moon.
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Video captured by the U.S. Geological Survey on Nov. 23 shows the formation of a dome fountain of lava in a crater on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 months ago)
Musk won a shareholder vote on Thursday that would give the Tesla CEO stock worth $1 trillion if he hits certain performance targets over the next decade.
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The Alberta government is considering using AI technology to write a law for the first time, eyeing a forthcoming piece of whisky legislation as its test case.
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Meta has been lobbying the federal government for new rules to implement age verification at the app store level, which would put the burden on other companies.
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While the Maritimes suffered through a long drought this year, Sable Island didn't have the same problem. That's because the island located 290 kilometres southeast of Halifax has a large underground supply of fresh water.
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As B.C. conservation officers continued to search for the three grizzlies involved in Thursday's attack on an elementary school group in Bella Coola, residents say the incident reflects years of rising bear encounters in the remote Central Coast community.
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Galapagos tortoise Gramma, who was believed to be about 141 years old, has died at the San Diego Zoo, according to zoo officials. She was their oldest resident.
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The Community-Oriented Coastal Observatory needs samples from around the province, so they're recruiting volunteers just like them to help with this project.
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Two researchers at Western University in London, Ont., are studying how to improve the way artificial intelligence understands toddlers' speaking patterns. They're recruiting preschool-age children to examine how they speak and use that data to train an AI model.
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Canadian-born researcher Joanna Harper has been studying the ways hormone therapy makes a difference in transgender athletes' performance for nearly two decades. Her most recent study, which she was working on in the United States, lost its funding bringing her back to Canada.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 months ago)
Travelers and advocates say a rule at WestJet Airlines that prevents passengers from traveling with some wheelchairs is discriminating against people living with a disability.
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Canada's Invasive Species Centre held a workshop at Windsor's Ojibway Nature Centre to raise local awareness of the spotted lanternfly — and its egg masses. The Asian plant-eating insect is expected to have a major impact on Canada's wine and fruit-farming industries.
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A new study being led by Lawrence Spriet, a professor emeritus of human health sciences at the University of Guelph, will look at the salt content in the sweat of players in the Professional Women's Hockey League. The aim of the study is to understand how much salt their sweat contains so they can fine-tune how they hydrate during games and...
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A technical issue hitting internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare has sent a ripple effect across parts of the internet Tuesday morning with multiple global outages reported.
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Space is a harsh environment: it's a vacuum with freezing temperatures, super high ultraviolet radiation and, of course, almost no oxygen. But Japanese researchers have found a type of moss that doesn't really care about much of that.
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The Canadian author discussed his book, Final Orbit, on Bookends with Mattea Roach.
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Every winter, tens of thousands of bald eagles descend on the lower Fraser Valley — a migration biologists say forms the world's largest congregation of eagles.
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As golden hour settles over Avtar Dhillon's farm in Abbotsford, B.C., rows of delicate purple flowers are in full bloom. Inside lies an ancient spice some Canadian farmers are beginning to get excited about.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 months ago)
New research shows the most common passwords are not safe enough to protect individuals' data online, especially among younger users.
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Within a day of the cameras being set up in the Heiltsuk First Nation last year, researchers captured footage of a sea wolf emerging from the water with a buoy hanging from its mouth. The footage then showed the wolf dropping the buoy on the beach, picking up the exposed line, and pulling it until the crab trap emerged from the water.
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The neon colouring is because of a dye put into the system to test water system infrastructure, according to Enwin.
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An exploration dive team seeking the century-old wreck of the Rapid City has instead found a much rarer prize: a virtually undisturbed vessel, potentially dating back to the first half of the 19th century.
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Shayla Chalifoux Indigenizes plant spaces by including native plants when consulting for landscape architects, municipalities, and organizations.
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Some scientists say this year's flu shot isn't well matched to a key strain that could spread widely in the months ahead. So, is there still a point in getting it? Medical experts say: absolutely. Here's why.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 months ago)
The decision runs in sharp contrast to two separate rulings that branded Google an illegal monopoly in both search and online advertising, dealing blows to the tech industry.
ReadCBC - Technology (2 months ago)
Bears No. 122 and 136, known as The Boss and Split Lip respectively, are arguably two of the most famous grizzlies in Canada. The Boss is currently considered Banff National Park's dominant grizzly bear, while the younger Split Lip has been challenging him for the top spot.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 months ago)
AI company Anthropic said it disrupted a cyber attack using an AI system that its researchers linked to the Chinese government.
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Solar storms brought colourful auroras to unexpected southern places in Canada and the United States on Tuesday night — and there could be more to come.
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Serban Sarbu, a cave scientist, thought he'd seen everything — until he entered a pitch-black cave along the Albania–Greece border. Inside, he found the world's largest known spider web, and he explains how the enormous colony came to be.
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Double-crested cormorants and their acidic poop are destroying habitats and driving people away from Toronto islands. But getting rid of them, or getting them to move, isn't so easy. Plus, as its defenders point out, the problem bird is native to the area. So some people are thinking outside the box to get them to move.
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Smith Siromaskul tells The National about the moment a seal hopped onto his boat to escape a pod of killer whales.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (2 months ago)
Accounts with hundreds of thousands of views have published misleading Canadian political commentary using 'hosts' who advertise their services as voiceover artists or presenters.
ReadCBC - Technology (2 months ago)
The giant New Glenn rocket from Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched from Florida on its debut mission for paying customers on Thursday, sending two NASA satellites toward Mars while also nailing the landing of its reusable booster for the first time.
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A P.E.I. company is seeking approval to import disease-resistant oyster seed and broodstock from the United States. Some Island oyster growers support the idea, but many in the wild oyster industry do not.
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Bob's Blog: NASA's latest mission, designed to study the effects of the solar wind on the atmosphere of Mars, was ironically delayed on the launch pad due to a solar storm affecting conditions here on Earth.
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Canadian astronomical research is getting a big boost with the return of Sara Seager to Canada after around 20 years at MIT. Her research includes looking for life in the clouds of Venus and searching for Earth 2.0.
ReadCBC - Technology (2 months ago)
Solar storms are expected to bring colourful northern lights across much of Canada and northern U.S. states for a second night in a row.
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Solar storms brought colourful northern lights — a.k.a. aurora borealis — across much of Canada, the United States and parts of Europe for a second straight night on Wednesday.
ReadCBC - Technology (3 months ago)
Caitlin Birdsall, executive director of the Marine Education and Research Society, says the whale discovered Nov. 8 off Lasqueti Island in the Georgia Strait near the Sunshine Coast and is the third confirmed death since late September.
ReadGlobal News - Technology (3 months ago)
Customers will have to pay between $149.95 and $229.95, depending on the length of the strap, to get their hands on the minimalist accessory.
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The illegal wildlife trade is deeply connected to other forms of organized crime, including arms dealing, drug trafficking and human smuggling, a new study has found.
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A private funeral is being held at the Washington National Cathedral today for Jane Goodall, who died on Oct. 1 at the age of 91, but the public is being invited to watch via livestream. (Credit: Washington National Cathedral)
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Two ancient stone spheres were returned to their home at Kettle and Stony Point First Nation on the shores of Lake Huron last Tuesday.
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Goats in the City arrived at the Flamborough home last week with a trailer of goats ready to bleat around the bush.
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Dalhousie University researchers found an average of six to seven microplastic particles per gram of meat.
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