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Everyone is freaking out after this beautiful nudibranch washed up in Australia
A rare 'Blue Dragon' sea slug has gone viral after washing up on the shores of Queensland, Australia last week. Facebook user, Lucinda Fry, captured her experience of finding the rare creature above.
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A rare 'Blue Dragon' sea slug has gone viral after washing up on the shores of Queensland, Australia last week. Facebook user, Lucinda Fry, captured her experience of finding the rare creature above.
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Fossil giant horntail wood-wasp discovered in B.C.
A B.C. paleontologist literally splits his pants after cracking open a rock in the province's southern Interior and finding a beautifully preserved giant fossil wasp - a new species. 
Scientists are homing in on a warning signal that arises in complex systems like ecological food webs, the brain and the Earth’s climate. Could it help prevent future catastrophes? Newly found miniature planet is most distant object in the solar system
Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a miniature planet that is the most distant body ever found in the solar system, scientists said on Wednesday. Falling space junk WT1190F blazes on Friday the 13th
A hunk of space junk nicknamed WTF fell to Earth in a blaze of glory early today — Friday the 13th. Unmuzzled federal biologist Facebook post goes viral
A Facebook post from the mother of an unmuzzled Canadian government biologist has gone viral, shedding more insight into the changes in the control of information since the Liberals took office last week. Hubble telescope takes photos of ancient white dwarfs at Milky Way's centre
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has for the first time observed a cluster of white dwarfs — the tiny, super-dense remains of burned-out stars — at the centre of the Milky Way.Artificial object in trans-lunar orbit to impact Earth on November 13
Get ready for a man-made fireball. A object discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on Oct 3rd temporarily designated WT1190F is predicted to impact the Earth about 60 miles (100 km) of the southern coast of Sri Lanka around ...
Get ready for a man-made fireball. A object discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on Oct 3rd temporarily designated WT1190F is predicted to impact the Earth about 60 miles (100 km) of the southern coast of Sri Lanka around ...A 'huge milestone': approval of cancer-hunting virus signals new treatment era
Imlygic programs viruses to attack only cancer cells and gives patients more humane options – potentially ‘a complete change in the game’ in treatment
Science | 206888 hits | 1:47 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Imlygic programs viruses to attack only cancer cells and gives patients more humane options – potentially ‘a complete change in the game’ in treatmentNASA Study: Mass Gains of Antarctic Ice Sheet Greater than Losses | NASA
A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.
Science | 206933 hits | 12:00 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A new NASA study says that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation that began 10,000 years ago is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the increased losses from its thinning glaciers.If you think your own logic came from someone else, you might not believe it
Many people are already familiar with the concept of confirmation bias, which is the tendency for people to seek out arguments that support their existing opinions. It turns out that we’re not only addicted to seeking information that confirms our biases,
Many people are already familiar with the concept of confirmation bias, which is the tendency for people to seek out arguments that support their existing opinions. It turns out that we’re not only addicted to seeking information that confirms our biases, Halloween Skies to Include Dead Comet Flyby
The large space rock that will zip past Earth this Halloween is most likely a dead comet that, fittingly, bears an eerie resemblance to a skull. Scientists observing asteroid 2015 TB145 with NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, Zombie physics: 6 baffling results that just won't die
To celebrate Halloween, Nature brings you the undead results that physicists can neither prove — nor lay to rest.
To celebrate Halloween, Nature brings you the undead results that physicists can neither prove — nor lay to rest. Canadian scientist thrills the web by live-tweeting spider sex
The detailed play-by-play of a black widow mating session in Toronto makes spiders seem more sweet than spooky. Catherine Scott studies courtship behaviour and sexual communication in black widow spiders, with a special interest in how pheromones on spide Molecular oxygen found on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Scientists say they have detected significant amounts of molecular oxygen coming out of a comet, an unexpected find that may have implications for the search for alien life and understanding how the solar system formed.Star Wars style sonic tractor beam invented by scientists
Darth Vader’s Death Star and Captain Kirk’s Starship Enterprise both had one. Now the tractor beam, that science fiction favourite deployed to memorable effect in numerous films and television series over the years, has finally arrived on Earth. A team of
Science | 207725 hits | 1:39 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Darth Vader’s Death Star and Captain Kirk’s Starship Enterprise both had one. Now the tractor beam, that science fiction favourite deployed to memorable effect in numerous films and television series over the years, has finally arrived on Earth. A team ofRussian scientists are training macaques so they can travel to MARS in 2017 |
Scientists from the Russian Academy of Science preparing four rhesus macaques (pictured) for space travel. This includes learning to use a joystick and solving puzzles.
Science | 207557 hits | 1:38 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Scientists from the Russian Academy of Science preparing four rhesus macaques (pictured) for space travel. This includes learning to use a joystick and solving puzzles.'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch
One of the oddest predictions of quantum theory � that a system can�t change while you�re watching it � has been confirmed in an experiment by Cornell physicists. Their work opens the door to a fundamentally new method to control and manipulate th
One of the oddest predictions of quantum theory � that a system can�t change while you�re watching it � has been confirmed in an experiment by Cornell physicists. Their work opens the door to a fundamentally new method to control and manipulate thThe bizarre reactor that might save nuclear fusion
If you’ve heard of fusion energy, you’ve probably heard of tokamaks. These doughnut-shaped devices are meant to cage ionized gases called plasmas in magnetic fields while heating them to the outlandish temperatures needed for hydrogen nuclei to fuse. Toka
If you’ve heard of fusion energy, you’ve probably heard of tokamaks. These doughnut-shaped devices are meant to cage ionized gases called plasmas in magnetic fields while heating them to the outlandish temperatures needed for hydrogen nuclei to fuse. TokaNew Galapagos giant tortoise species identified
Scientists have identified a new species of giant tortoise on the Galapagos Islands, using genetic data to determine that a group of 250 of the slow-moving grazing reptiles was distinct from other tortoise species residing in the Pacific archipelago.
Scientists have identified a new species of giant tortoise on the Galapagos Islands, using genetic data to determine that a group of 250 of the slow-moving grazing reptiles was distinct from other tortoise species residing in the Pacific archipelago. Hidden no more
IN THE 1930s Albert Einstein was greatly troubled by a phenomenon that came from quantum theory. Entanglement, as it is called, forever intertwines the fates of objects such as subatomic particles, regardless of their separation.US navy returns to celestial navigation amid fears of computer hack
US Navy recruits to learn how to navigate using the stars as America grows increasingly worried about possible hacking of computer navigation systems
Science | 206856 hits | 12:14 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
US Navy recruits to learn how to navigate using the stars as America grows increasingly worried about possible hacking of computer navigation systems Evidence of earliest modern humans outside Africa found in China
A trove of 47 fossil human teeth from a cave in southern China is rewriting the history of the early migration of our species out of Africa, indicating Homo sapiens trekked into Asia far earlier than previously known and much earlier than into Europe.Human brain may be designed to give us hallucinations, scientists say
Hallucinations, often associated with psychotic disorders, may result from a natural process used by the brain to make sense of the world, say scientists. Visions and sounds that do not exist can be generated by the brain’s habit of predicting what
Science | 206856 hits | 11:41 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Hallucinations, often associated with psychotic disorders, may result from a natural process used by the brain to make sense of the world, say scientists. Visions and sounds that do not exist can be generated by the brain’s habit of predicting what Science | 206783 hits | 11:59 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
For Christopher Filardi of the American Museum of Natural History, there is nothing like the thrill of finding a mysterious species. Such animals live at the intersection of myth and biology — tantalizing researchers with the prospect that they may be reaICE ON PLUTO: Frozen water and blue skies found on dwarf planet..giving more hope of life
NASA has discovered frozen water and earth-like blue skies on Pluto in another historic development in the search for extraterrestrial life.
Science | 206792 hits | 3:26 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
NASA has discovered frozen water and earth-like blue skies on Pluto in another historic development in the search for extraterrestrial life.NASA confirms massive asteroid is on course for a close encounter with earth within hours
It's hurtling through space at 40,000 miles per hour and this two mile wide lump of space rock will have a very close encounter with earth
It's hurtling through space at 40,000 miles per hour and this two mile wide lump of space rock will have a very close encounter with earthAntarctic scientists face breathalyser tests due to alcohol-fuelled fighting and 'indecent exposure'
Audit of two Antarctic bases run by United States heard that alcohol was fuelling unpredictable behaviour with calls to deploy breathalysers
Science | 206786 hits | 12:22 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Audit of two Antarctic bases run by United States heard that alcohol was fuelling unpredictable behaviour with calls to deploy breathalysers 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics: Canadian Arthur B. McDonald shares win with Japan's Takaaki Kajita
Arthur McDonald, a Nova Scotia-born researcher who is professor emeritus at Queen's University, is co-winner with Japan's Takaaki Kajita of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for work done, in part, at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory showing neutrinos have Climate scientist requesting federal investigation feels heat from House Republicans
A scientist who helped organize a call for a federal investigation of the fossil fuel industry—for allegedly orchestrating a cover-up of climate change dangers—has himself become the target of a congressional probe.
Science | 206926 hits | 2:32 PM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A scientist who helped organize a call for a federal investigation of the fossil fuel industry—for allegedly orchestrating a cover-up of climate change dangers—has himself become the target of a congressional probe.Farmer finds woolly mammoth bones in Michigan field
A Michigan farmer has made a mammoth find while digging in a field.
Science | 206818 hits | 12:40 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A Michigan farmer has made a mammoth find while digging in a field.Elon Musk details his plan to BOMB Mars
The SpaceX founder said the plan would use a new type of 'nuclear pulse bomb' to create two suns in the Martian atmosphere to warm the planet.
Science | 207120 hits | 1:29 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The SpaceX founder said the plan would use a new type of 'nuclear pulse bomb' to create two suns in the Martian atmosphere to warm the planet. Glowing sea turtle is 1st biofluorescent reptile ever discovered
Scientists have discovered that a critically endangered sea turtle has an amazing ability never seen before in a reptile — it glows neon green and red when exposed to blue light.Intelligent people's brains wired differently to those with fewer intellectual abilities, says study
The brains of high-achieving individuals are wired up differently to those of people with fewer intellectual or social abilities according to one of the first studies to find a physical link between what goes in the brain and a person’s overall lifestyle.
Science | 208207 hits | 12:26 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The brains of high-achieving individuals are wired up differently to those of people with fewer intellectual or social abilities according to one of the first studies to find a physical link between what goes in the brain and a person’s overall lifestyle.Brain interface allows paralysed people control a cursor to type accurately
Monkeys used their brainwaves to accurately move a cursor, and the research may lead to devices such as a wheelchair that paralysed people can drive with their own brain waves.
Science | 207893 hits | 12:23 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Monkeys used their brainwaves to accurately move a cursor, and the research may lead to devices such as a wheelchair that paralysed people can drive with their own brain waves. 
New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.Mars 'mystery solved': has Nasa found water flowing on the Red Planet'
Has Nasa found life on Mars? Speculation mounts ahead of press conference to unveil "a major science finding"
Science | 207753 hits | 12:24 AM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Has Nasa found life on Mars? Speculation mounts ahead of press conference to unveil "a major science finding" University of Ottawa prof named as possible Nobel Prize winner
National Research Council of Canada physicist Paul Corkum has been named to Thomson Reuters’s annual list of scientists most likely to win a Nobel Prize Rocky patch of Mars named after another cold place: WinnipegScience | 206861 hits | 4:06 PM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A team of NASA scientists who are working with the Curiosity rover as it scans the red planet have named a small patch of rock 'Winnipeg.'IVF embryos to be genetically manipulated as scientists investigate repeated miscarriages
The genetic manipulation of human IVF embryos is set to start in Britain for the first time following a licence application by scientists who want to understand why some women suffer repeated miscarriages.
Science | 206778 hits | 11:33 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The genetic manipulation of human IVF embryos is set to start in Britain for the first time following a licence application by scientists who want to understand why some women suffer repeated miscarriages.Hiding in Plain Sight: Scientists Create Ultrathin 'Invisibility Cloak'
Scientists say they have come up with a new, ultrathin "invisibility cloak" that turns objects into perfect, flat mirrors.
Science | 206819 hits | 11:32 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Scientists say they have come up with a new, ultrathin "invisibility cloak" that turns objects into perfect, flat mirrors. Faint hopes for Arctic sea ice recovery as levels drop to 4th lowest on record
U.S. researchers say Arctic sea ice hit its summer minimum last week, and it was the fourth-lowest level on record. Long term trends show no evidence of sea ice recovery, the scientists say. Will The LHC Be The End Of Experimental Particle Physics?
If there’s only one Higgs, no unexpected decays and no new fundamental, heavy particles, it might all be over.Whisky returns after three years in space
Remember when Ardbeg Distillery sent a vial of unmatured malt whisky into space? Well the space Scotch has returned! And it has allegedly been changed by its time in microgravity.
Science | 206790 hits | 4:52 PM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Remember when Ardbeg Distillery sent a vial of unmatured malt whisky into space? Well the space Scotch has returned! And it has allegedly been changed by its time in microgravity.Two Accelerators Find Particles that May Break Known Laws of Physics
The LHC and the Belle experiment have found particle decay patterns that violate the Standard Model of particle physics
The LHC and the Belle experiment have found particle decay patterns that violate the Standard Model of particle physicsLack of science and maths skills 'can hamper adults'
Adults who lack basic science and maths skills risk being "bamboozled" and making bad decisions, according to a leading scientist. Teaching maths and science to all up to 18 would "produce a wiser population", says new British Science Association presiden
Adults who lack basic science and maths skills risk being "bamboozled" and making bad decisions, according to a leading scientist. Teaching maths and science to all up to 18 would "produce a wiser population", says new British Science Association presiden Research library's closure shows Harper government targets science 'at every turn,' union says
The union representing federal scientists says the agriculture research library in the southern Alberta city of Lethbridge has been quietly closed.Experiment confirms that quantum mechanics scoffs at our local reality
Our day-to-day reality is deterministic; things happen in specific locations and in a well-defined order. But all that nice, orderly behavior seems to go out the window in the quantum world, a fact that has prompted scientists to try to find ways of squee
Our day-to-day reality is deterministic; things happen in specific locations and in a well-defined order. But all that nice, orderly behavior seems to go out the window in the quantum world, a fact that has prompted scientists to try to find ways of squee Rare nautilus with hairy shell photographed in South Pacific
An animal so rare that only two people are thought to have ever seen it until now has been photographed and briefly captured in the South Pacific.Back to Canada News
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