Category: Science & Technology

You can now detect food fraud at home, or figure out what kind of creepy crawly insect is in your garden, using a new kit developed by researchers at the University of Guelph. The LifeScanner Species Identification Kit combines smartphone technology, a Read more …

Tradition and technology are clashing on the tundra where Indigenous groups are debating the use of drones to hunt caribou. The issue arose during public consultations on new wildlife regulations in the Northwest Territories, where First Nations and Métis depend Read more …

With a short window of only about two days in bloom, over a thousand people visited McMaster University to catch a glimpse (and whiff) of the corpse flower. The titan arum plant, dubbed the corpse flower, got its name by Read more …

Entering the village of Clayton, Ont., you’ll pass a red and white road sign announcing “911 saves lives.” That may be, but only if you can get through. Residents of the rural hamlet on Clayton Lake say there have been numerous emergencies Read more …

Minutes before dawn, five boats speed out of Hecla Village Harbour on Lake Winnipeg, home to the second-largest freshwater fishery in North America after the Great Lakes. The seven-metre skiffs are small enough to allow gill nets to be hauled up over their Read more …

Some of Canada’s major mobile service providers say they’re working to fix widespread network outages to voice services that some customers have been experiencing since Sunday afternoon. Text messages, internet and data services are still operational, but Rogers’s website said Read more …

A Japanese research institute is seeking to deepen its collaboration with Canadian scientists and Inuit to further research in the Arctic and understanding of the impacts of climate change. Ten members of Japan’s National Institute of Polar Research, including natural scientists Read more …

Manashri Shejwalkar remembers lifting the lid of her black bin and peering in at the piles of plastic bags crumpled there, discarded. She sighed in disgust, thinking, “I don’t want to do this anymore.” So instead of simply moving on with Read more …

The federal government is trying to quash a lawsuit launched by animal welfare advocates who want to end the export of Canadian horses for slaughter and human consumption in Japan and South Korea. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is Read more …

Salmon blocked from migrating upstream to spawning grounds could be trapped and trucked around an obstruction following a rock slide in the Fraser River, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) said Wednesday. The slide happened in a remote area near Big Bar, Read more …