Category: Science & Technology

The Israeli start-up behind last week’s failed lunar landing says human error may have caused the spacecraft to crash into the moon. SpaceIL, the non-profit that undertook the botched lunar mission, said Thursday that its engineers collectively decided to restart Read more …

Brace yourself, BBMers: the company that runs the iconic messaging app invented by BlackBerry more than a decade ago is ending the free version of the service for consumers. Indonesian media conglomerate Emtek partnered with Waterloo-based BlackBerry in 2016 to expand the Read more …

Alberta’s incoming premier plans to take on environmental charities that he says are blocking exports of the province’s oil, but those groups may be saying “Bring it on.” In his victory speech Tuesday, Jason Kenney repeated his promise to fight Read more …

Earth, meet Polo. Polo Ralph Lauren on Thursday launched a version of its iconic polo shirt made entirely of recycled plastic bottles and dyed through a process that uses zero water. David Lauren, the youngest son of the company’s founder Read more …

When Ohio University integrative biologist Nancy Stevens peered into a drawer in the wooden cabinets on the top floor of a Nairobi museum in 2010, she saw a chunk of rock containing massive teeth and knew she had come across Read more …

A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck eastern Taiwan on Thursday afternoon, according to the island’s Central Weather Bureau, causing scattered light damage in the capital and along the east coast. The bureau said the quake happened at 1:01 p.m. local time, Read more …

It’s not an easy time to be Twitter’s chief executive officer. Consider one of the first questions that Jack Dorsey, CEO of the social media giant, fielded Tuesday at the annual TED conference in Vancouver. “What worries you about Twitter?” TED curator and moderator Read more …

They knew it had to exist, but they just couldn’t find evidence of it. Now, after decades of searching, astrophysicists have found verification of the first molecule that formed minutes after the Big Bang. The helium hydride ion (HeH+) the scientists Read more …

Scientists restored some activity within the brains of pigs that had been slaughtered hours before, raising hopes for some medical advances and questions about the definition of death. The brains could not think or sense anything, researchers stressed. By medical Read more …

Hacking attempts on Ecuadorean government institutions have doubled since the country revoked WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s asylum at its London embassy last week, an official said on Monday. Telecommunications Vice Minister Patricio Real told reporters the websites for the country’s Read more …