One model of mask distributed to Quebec schools and daycares may be dangerous for the lungs as they contain a potentially toxic material, according to a directive sent out by the provincial government on Friday. | Continue reading
Instead of being the source of the pandemic, the seafood market outbreak likely amplified the human-to-human spread, new research has found. | Continue reading
P.E.I. is suspending its use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for 18- to 29-year-olds. | Continue reading
A global pandemic, anti-racism protests and a turbulent U.S. presidential election had Americans glued to their screens in 2020, but as people consumed more news, they began to trust media less, surveys suggested. The CBC documentary Big News takes a look at why the public lost f … | Continue reading
Bob McDonald's blog: Solar panels suspended over large irrigation canal networks could generate useful power and reduce losses due to evaporation of water used for irrigation. | Continue reading
Free diving under ice into freezing lakes in the Rocky Mountains could sound scary to some, but an Alberta diver says the experience is a fantastic form of meditation. | Continue reading
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how mycelium could be used to make sustainable building materials and why RBC ranks so high on the list of banks funding the fossil fuel industry. | Continue reading
The B.C. government refused a request from an Indigenous woman who applied to register a business in her hən̓q̓əmín̓əm̓ language. The incident is raising questions about the province's reconciliation efforts. | Continue reading
About four billion people experience severe water shortages for at least one month a year, and around 1.6 billion people — almost a quarter of the world's population — have problems accessing a clean, safe water supply, according to the United Nations. | Continue reading
Public Health is closely monitoring a cluster of more than 40 New Brunswick patients with symptoms similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal brain disease. | Continue reading
About 93 million years ago, a bizarre, plankton-eating shark shaped unlike any other known marine creature glided through the sea in what is now northeastern Mexico using curiously elongated, wing-like fins that made its body wider than it was long. | Continue reading
Public Health is closely monitoring a cluster of more than 40 New Brunswick patients with symptoms similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal brain disease. | Continue reading
The former U.S. diplomat who freed a 4-year-old Canadian girl from a detention camp in northeastern Syria Friday is calling on Canada and other countries to repatriate all of the children stranded there. | Continue reading
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security is urging organizations to protect businesses that use the Microsoft Exchange server because of a massive hack aimed at stealing data. | Continue reading
Rogers Communications has signed a deal to buy Shaw Communications in a transaction valued at $26 billion, including debt, which would create Canada's No. 2 cellular operator — but is likely to face stiff regulatory scrutiny. | Continue reading
You would think an AI trained to identify images would know the difference between an apple and an iPod, but it turns out CLIP can be fooled by pen and paper. | Continue reading
Lampreys are blood-sucking predatory fish. The earliest ancestors of all vertebrates, including ourselves, were thought to resemble their worm-like babies. Now, recently discovered fossils have overturned that theory, raising new questions about what our ancestors were really lik … | Continue reading
Rogers Communications has signed a deal to buy Shaw Communications in a transaction valued at $26 billion, including debt, which would create Canada's No. 2 cellular operator — but is likely to face stiff regulatory scrutiny. | Continue reading
Neuroscientist Simon Baron-Cohen argues in his new book 'Pattern Seekers' that 70,000 years ago humans evolved new abilities for systemization and innovation, and that autism spectrum disorders may reflect an overexpression of that ability. | Continue reading
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said today he's reluctant to introduce a system of vaccine passports to show proof of immunization because of lingering concerns about inequities — but such a system might be necessary for international travel. | Continue reading
It ain’t no thing. Or is it? The objects around us can have a profound impact on how we think about and interact with the world. From the scientific to the sacred, human beings may invent the things, but those creations end up shaping humanity. | Continue reading
What is your biggest weakness? You have two minutes to answer! An increasing number of companies are screening candidates using what's called "asynchronous" or "one-way" job interviews where a computer assesses you, rather than a human being. | Continue reading
Bob McDonald's blog: A simple backyard procedure results in see-through wood with enormous potential as a building material. | Continue reading
A team of Israeli researchers has found that one of the reasons that sleep could be so important to animals — including humans — is that it takes neurons 'offline' so DNA damage accumulated during waking hours can be repaired. | Continue reading
A Vancouver woman who lost her phone in Harrison Lake in September is shocked and surprised that not only has it been recovered from the lake bottom, but that it still works. | Continue reading
Chronic cough is a common symptom among cross-country skiers. One Edmonton researcher is trying to understand why and to encourage athletes to protect their lungs from harsh winter air. | Continue reading
Canada is the only country in the world delaying second doses of COVID-19 vaccines from three weeks after the first dose to four months, but critics say we are venturing into uncharted scientific waters that may lead to complications down the road. | Continue reading
A Vancouver woman who lost her phone in Harrison Lake in September is shocked and surprised that not only has it been recovered from the lake bottom, but that it still works. | Continue reading
David Schindler, the renowned ecologist known for his outspoken defence of Canada's freshwater systems from industrial harm, is dead. He was 80. | Continue reading
Hundreds of years ago, letter writers would secure their secrets through the elaborate art of "letterlocking." Now, for the first time, researchers read these secrets from 17th-century Europe without physically opening the letter, using virtual reality technology. | Continue reading
British Columbia's decision to extend to four months the interval between first and second doses of three different vaccines amounts to a "population level experiment," said Mona Nemer, Canada's chief science adviser. | Continue reading
Dr. Seuss is most famously known for his incredible rhymes, colourful characters and critically-acclaimed children's books. But did you know he was once a political cartoonist? Historian Richard Minear guides us through the complexities of that history. He's the author of the boo … | Continue reading
2020 may be over, but the pandemic continues...and it's creating an altered sense of time. We're nostalgic for the "before," contend with a shifting present, and desperately want the future to be here — often simultaneously. IDEAS explores the experience of converging chronologie … | Continue reading
Magnetic pole reversal indicated in 42,000 year old tree rings may have triggered global environmental change | Continue reading
Hundreds of cybersecurity workers at Canada's foreign signals intelligence agency have voted to strike, a move that comes amid growing conerns about cyber attacks during the COVID-19 pandemic. | Continue reading
The House of Commons today accused the Chinese government of carrying out genocide against Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in the western Xinjiang region. | Continue reading
Just as the pandemic is driving interest in micro mobility, the last Segways are rolling off the production line. Journalist Mark Wilson says the device may have been ahead of its time, but that doesn't mean it was right. | Continue reading
Scott Willoughby thought he dodged a bullet when his electricity kept running during the brutal Texas cold snap. But then he got the bill. | Continue reading
Based in Antarctica’s Concordia research station, Dr. Nick Smith shares his experience as one of the “most isolated humans on earth, in one of the harshest environments.” | Continue reading
Canadian privacy experts are concerned the federal government's plan to develop an online passport application process could put personal information at risk and open a new angle of attack for fraudsters. | Continue reading
In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the growing appetite for insect-filled pet food and the real reasons for the collapse of Texas's electrical grid. | Continue reading
A CBC Marketplace investigation has found out just how effective air purifiers are at cleaning the air in your home at a time when the coronavirus pandemic is forcing us all to spend more time indoors. | Continue reading
Male springbok mantises violently wrestle and sometimes injure females they fight to mate — and survive. | Continue reading
Bob McDonald's blog: A simple backyard procedure results in see-through wood with enormous potential as a building material. | Continue reading
Bob McDonald's blog: A simple backyard procedure results in see-through wood with enormous potential as a building material. | Continue reading
A CBC Marketplace investigation has found out just how effective air purifiers are at cleaning the air in your home at a time when the coronavirus pandemic is forcing us all to spend more time indoors. | Continue reading
American technology firm Clearview AI violated Canadian privacy laws by collecting photos of Canadians without their knowledge or consent, an investigation by four of Canada's privacy commissioners has found. | Continue reading