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How a team of Canadian grad students is setting the stage for the next lunar missionScience | 207414 hits | 4:06 AM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
It's been 50 years since the Apollo 11 moon landing and as the countdown to the next lunar mission begins, a team of Western University graduate students is helping to lay the foundation for a Canadian-made lunar rover. Canada's largest underwater volcano to be explored in B.C. expedition
Hoping to uncover the mysteries of Canada's largest underwater volcano, a team of scientists is embarking on an expedition off B.C.'s coast next week.Intact prehistoric wolf head found in Siberian permafrost by locals hunting for mammoth tusks
Several species of wolves lived during the Pleistocene ice age, including the celebrated dire wolf in the Americas
Science | 207366 hits | 1:16 PM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Several species of wolves lived during the Pleistocene ice age, including the celebrated dire wolf in the AmericasScience | 206982 hits | 1:24 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
An unknown, mysterious mass has been found beneath a crater on the moon, according to researchers at Baylor University—and it may give scientists clues into how the moon was shaped. How to view Jupiter at its closest to Earth over the next few daysScience | 206988 hits | 7:56 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
If you want to check out the solar system’s largest planet, the next few nights are the best nights of the year to do it.Rein in the four horsemen of irreproducibility
Many researchers persist in working in a way almost guaranteed not to deliver meaningful results
Science | 207579 hits | 1:00 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Many researchers persist in working in a way almost guaranteed not to deliver meaningful resultsMice reinvent the hamster wheel in zero gravity
Mice adapt to microgravity on the International Space Station by inventing unusual 'race-tracking' activity
Science | 207725 hits | 3:22 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Mice adapt to microgravity on the International Space Station by inventing unusual 'race-tracking' activity Here's how wildfires can burn underground for months or even yearsScience | 207719 hits | 3:19 PM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
"You have fires that can get into that deep, deep dried organic material, and with just a little bit of oxygen they can hang on for years." SpaceX loses its first crew capsule in fiery test incidentScience | 207426 hits | 1:31 AM on Tuesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
SpaceX has suffered a serious setback in its effort to launch NASA astronauts into orbit this year, with the fiery loss of its first crew capsule during testing.Pig brains partially revived four hours after death
The study could aid medical research and fuel debate about the difference between life and death.
Science | 207456 hits | 3:08 PM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The study could aid medical research and fuel debate about the difference between life and death. U.S. judge rules deceptive publisher should pay $50 million in damagesScience | 207158 hits | 4:17 PM on Sunday | posted by N_Fiddledog
But can researchers collect from India-based OMICS International?'Motherlode' of fossils in North Dakota captures the first day the meteor crash killed the dinosaurs
A team of paleontologists from Texas has discovered a treasure trove of fossilized remains of prehistoric creatures that died minutes after an enormous asteroid plunged into Earth millions of years ago.
Science | 207157 hits | 3:24 PM on Monday | posted by N_Fiddledog
A team of paleontologists from Texas has discovered a treasure trove of fossilized remains of prehistoric creatures that died minutes after an enormous asteroid plunged into Earth millions of years ago.Key Greenland glacier growing again after shrinking for years, NASA study shows
The Jakobshavn glacier around 2012 was retreating about 1.8 miles and thinning nearly 130 feet annually. But it started growing again at about the same rate in the past two years, according to a study in Monday’s Nature Geoscience.
Science | 207532 hits | 6:50 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Jakobshavn glacier around 2012 was retreating about 1.8 miles and thinning nearly 130 feet annually. But it started growing again at about the same rate in the past two years, according to a study in Monday’s Nature Geoscience. 
“Scotty” lived in prehistoric Saskatchewan 66 million years ago. The bones of the 13-metre long dinosaur were discovered during a dig in the province in 1991. Scientists fear communications chill in polarized media landscape
A marine mammal scientist in Vancouver says he thinks his work has been misrepresented online and he's worried it's part of a trend that has him and his colleagues questioning whether they should talk to media at all in the era of fake news. Scientists brew up cannabinoids using genetically-modified beer yeast
Researchers from University of California, Berkeley, say they have produced low-cost and high-quality cannabinoids out of brewer’s yeast which could aid in more research into medical uses of cannabis. Science | 207114 hits | 10:45 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
NASA is embarking on the creation of its new Lunar Gateway, a space station it plans to send into orbit around the moon starting in 2022. Canada to participate in U.S.-led lunar mission, according to sources
The government is expected to announce on Thursday that Canada will join the lunar space mission led by the United States, according to CBC’s French-language network Radio-Canada.Science | 207773 hits | 12:47 AM on Wednesday | posted by N_Fiddledog
The Arch Mission Foundation (AMF) created the Lunar Library, a 30-million-page long compendium of humanity’s greatest cultural offerings, encoded it on a specially designed disc meant to last a billion years, and sent it to the moon to keep it safe. 
The brains of two genetically edited girls born in China last year may have been changed in ways that enhance cognition and memory, scientists say.Lesbians more likely to be overweight as experts find sexuality is linked to health
Lesbian and bisexual women are more likely to be overweight than heterosexual women, research has shown for the first time, as experts said sexual identity should now be viewed as a health risk factor.
Science | 207707 hits | 8:16 AM on Thursday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Lesbian and bisexual women are more likely to be overweight than heterosexual women, research has shown for the first time, as experts said sexual identity should now be viewed as a health risk factor.Scientists Dressed Horses Like Zebras to Figure Out Why They Have Stripes
Why do zebras have stripes?
Evolutionary biologists have proposed many possible theories, such as camouflage or vision aids for recognizing individual zebras. But in recent years, pest control has emerged as the leading explanation for zebra stripes.
Why do zebras have stripes?
Evolutionary biologists have proposed many possible theories, such as camouflage or vision aids for recognizing individual zebras. But in recent years, pest control has emerged as the leading explanation for zebra stripes. Why microwaving grapes creates a dazzling plasma light show
It’s a crowd-pleasing party trick: Cut a grape in half, pop it in the microwave, hit “start” then sit back and watch the dazzling “grape balls of fire.” Now a team of Canadian scientists has figured out how grapes generate plasma in your kitchen. Wayward Satellites Test Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
The botched launch of two Galileo navigation probes made for an unexpected experiment Artificial Intelligence Study of Human Genome Finds Unknown Human Ancestor
Can the minds of machines teach us something new about what it means to be human? When it comes to the intricate story of our species’ complex origins and evolution, it appears that they can. Polar vortex: The science behind the cold
The polar vortex, a swirl of low-pressure air six miles up in the atmosphere, blasted much of the American Midwest and Northeast in late January 2019 with temperatures cold enough to bring on frostbite within minutes.Call for retraction of 400 scientific papers amid fears organs came from Chinese prisoners
Study finds failure of English language medical journals to comply with international ethical standards
Study finds failure of English language medical journals to comply with international ethical standards
Reports of meteorite strike in western Cuba
Residents and tourists in a town in western Cuba saw a flare pass through the sky and heard an explosion Friday in what officials said was a meteorite strike.
Residents and tourists in a town in western Cuba saw a flare pass through the sky and heard an explosion Friday in what officials said was a meteorite strike. An Unexpected New Measurement of The Universe Suggests We Need to Update Our Physics
For the first time, astronomers have used supermassive black holes from just after the Big Bang to measure the expansion rate of the Universe. Now, we have a bigger mystery on our hands than the answer this effort provided.China clones monkeys and deliberately edits genes to make them mentally ill
Chinese geneticists have been criticised after cloning five monkeys that were deliberately "edited" to be mentally ill.
Science | 207317 hits | 6:38 AM on Saturday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Chinese geneticists have been criticised after cloning five monkeys that were deliberately "edited" to be mentally ill.
If you bled when you brushed your teeth this morning, you might want to get that seen to. We may finally have found the long-elusive cause of Alzheimer’s disease: Porphyromonas gingivalis, the key bacteria in chronic gum disease. Here's how to watch the total lunar eclipse and 'super blood wolf moon'
Sky gazers are in for a treat this weekend as a ‘super blood wolf moon’ aligns with the sun and the Earth for a total lunar eclipse. Here’s how, when, and where to watch the spectacular cosmic event. Adding new DNA letters make novel proteins possible
THE FUZZY specks growing on discs of jelly in Floyd Romesberg’s lab at Scripps Research in La Jolla look much like any other culture of E. coli. But appearances deceive—for the DNA of these bacteria is written in an alphabet that has six chemical letters Fossils discovered at B.C.'s Burgess Shale add branch to tree of life
The tiny remains of an extinct bug-like creature discovered at British Columbia's 500-million-year-old Burgess Shale fossil deposit add a new branch to the evolutionary tree of life, says a PhD student who tracked down the organism's development. Father of DNA stripped of honorary titles after saying he still believes in link between race and intelligence
James Watson, renowned for his landmark co-discovery of the double-helix, is known for sometimes making remarks seen as sexist, homophobic or racistInvestigation of NOAA climate scientists finds bupkis
During his run as chair of the House Science Committee, recently retired Texas Congressman Lamar Smith made a habit of accusing US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists of manipulating data to exaggerate global warming. Smith did so a
During his run as chair of the House Science Committee, recently retired Texas Congressman Lamar Smith made a habit of accusing US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists of manipulating data to exaggerate global warming. Smith did so a Scientists warn Earth's magnetic North Pole has begun moving erratically at speeds of 50km a yearScience | 206900 hits | 10:34 AM on Friday | posted by N_Fiddledog
Researchers say the magnetic North Pole is 'skittering' away from Canada, towards Siberia. Once considered outlandish, the idea that plants help their relatives is taking root
Some plants appear to move leaves, roots to share resources with kin Uranus was pushed over on its side by giant rock, research shows
Uranus is a lopsided oddity, the only planet to spin on its side. Scientists now think they know how it got that way: It was pushed over by a rock at least twice as big as Earth.
Storm surge unearths 'incredible' trove of dinosaur fossils in U.K.
A unique cache of well-preserved dinosaur fossils from 100 million years ago have been unearthed in the cliffs near Hastings, England. The detailed fossils show claw imprints and skin textures from at least 7 dinosaur species
A unique cache of well-preserved dinosaur fossils from 100 million years ago have been unearthed in the cliffs near Hastings, England. The detailed fossils show claw imprints and skin textures from at least 7 dinosaur species Saturn's iconic rings are disappearing, study says
It is one of the most admired planets in our solar system: Saturn. But a new study suggests that the ringed beauty will lose its most stunning feature. According to the study published in the journal Icarus, Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun and the o Scientists find solar system's farthest known object, name it Farout
Astronomers have spotted the farthest known object in our solar system, and they've nicknamed the pink cosmic body "Farout." "Farout" is about 120 astronomical units away -- that's 120 times the distance between Earth and the sun, or 11 billion miles. In the quest to build a better battery, a Canadian is energizing the field
Canadian Don Sadoway, a professor of materials chemistry at MIT, has captured the attention of the world with his quest to build a better battery.'Magma shift' may have caused mysterious seismic wave event
Vibrations off Madagascar baffled experts but now they believe they have the answer
Vibrations off Madagascar baffled experts but now they believe they have the answer CN Rail developes energon cubes
CN Rail is developing a product that essentially transforms crude oil into a solid product, which they say would be safer for the environment and more cost friendly compared to traditional oil shipping by train.Bringing balance to the universe: New theory could explain missing 95 percent of the cosmos
Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses 'negative mass." If you were to push a negative
Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses 'negative mass." If you were to push a negative Back to Canada News
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