Category: Science & Technology

It takes the stamina of an athlete to run up the side of a steep mountain the way Lann Dickson does. “Nothing about it is easy,” said Dickson. “A lot of people quit in the first week or two, it Read more …

After an Ontario power utility was granted permission by a deputy judge to serve legal papers through Facebook messenger, a Toronto lawyer says social media could soon play a “significant role” in the legal system. “It’s going to be unavoidable,” Read more …

In a new study published in Nature Astronomy on Monday, astronomers are pulling back the curtain on some of the mysteries behind our solar system’s first confirmed interstellar comet. The comet, 2I/Borisov, was discovered by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov on Read more …

When a Toronto dentist learned last week that his office’s computer network had been attacked with ransomware, it felt like a “violation.”  “It was terrible,” he said. “My wife was even nervous about sleeping at home.” Staff were locked out of digital Read more …

In a pub in London, England, complicated technology is taking on a simple problem: waiting for a pint in lines that can sometimes be unruly. It uses facial recognition software to form a digital queue and prevent people from cutting in line. Read more …

Two salmon researchers say a surprising discovery has been made on Vancouver Island. Andres Araujo, a biologist at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and Will Duguid, a PhD biology student at the University of Victoria, recently found fish in the Cowichan Read more …

For 150 years, dozens of abandoned former gold mines have littered Nova Scotia, some harbouring residue with sky-high arsenic levels. Earlier this year, the province announced it will spend $48 million to clean up two of the worst offenders — Read more …

An “exquisitely preserved” fossil of a small feathered dinosaur discovered in an Alberta provincial park is providing new information on how theropod dinosaurs evolved around the world. The 76-million-year-old species, known as Saurornitholestes langstoni, was long thought to be closely related Read more …

Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, says Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space 54 years ago, has died in Moscow. He was 85. Roscosmos says in a statement on its website that Leonov died on Friday. It did not provide Read more …

A new report from Vancouver researchers suggests laundry machines in Canada and the U.S. release 878 tonnes of potentially harmful microfibres into aquatic environments every year. That’s the equivalent to the weight of 10 blue whales flowing into oceans, lakes Read more …