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Mission to Red Planet carries two devices that were built here
Canada's first mission to Mars is less than three weeks from its destination, with a package of instruments that will tell scientists about clouds, dust and weather on the Red Planet.
WASHINGTON -- Low-oxygen zones where sea life is threatened or cannot survive are growing as the oceans are heated by global warming, a new study warns.
Cancer researchers from around the world banded together today to announce the launch of a massive international effort - headquartered in Toronto – to map the genetic origins of cancer.
Scientists have found 17 living relatives of a centuries-old "iceman," whose remains were discovered in a melting glacier in northern British Columbia nine years ago.
ELLSWORTH — This recently ended stormy winter broke snowfall records, leading some to scoff at the idea of global warming.
But the data indicate the Earth is heating up, the planet’s climate is changing, and researchers have documented changes in plant
WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - The amount of two key greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere rose sharply in 2007, and carbon dioxide levels this year are literally off the chart, the U.S. government reported on Wednesday.
In its annual index of gree
MONTREAL - A noise-making device that drives away rowdy youth with an irritating high-pitched squeal has quietly landed on Canadian shores after a raucous European debut.
WASHINGTON -- Planet Earth continues to run a fever. Last month was the warmest March on record over land surfaces of the world and the second warmest overall worldwide.
THERE are so many satellites jostling for position above us that a snapshot from outer space would appear to show the Earth enveloped in a swarm of gnats.
It's an amazing story: a 13-year-old German boy's science fair entry spots a miscalculation in NASA's estimates on an asteroid colliding with Earth, forcing the space agency to change its prediction
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- A deep-water exploration area off Brazil's coast could contain as much as 33 billion barrels of oil, the head of Brazil's National Petroleum Agency said Monday. That would make it the world's third-largest known oil reserve.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected an unusual swarm of earthquakes off central Oregon, something that often happens before a volcanic eruption - except there are no volcanoes in the area.
Advanced ground and space-based telescopes are discovering new planets around other stars almost daily, but an environmental scientist from England believes that even if some of those planets turn out to be Earth-like, the odds are very low they'll have
A new brain-scan study may help explain what's going on in the minds of financial titans when they take risky monetary gambles.
Surprise! - it's sex.
University researchers report that when young men were shown erotic pictures, they were mor
GENEVA -- The father of a theoretical subatomic particle dubbed "the God particle'' says he's almost sure its existence will be confirmed in the next year.
The chance of a major earthquake striking Vancouver Island will be slightly higher next month as tiny tremors rattle the earth 40 kilometres beneath our feet.
LOS ANGELES – An international spacecraft that dove through geysers erupting from the surface of a Saturn moon found organic matter, one of many ingredients that make an environment hospitable to extraterrestrial life
Every 11 years or so, the sun gets a little pissy. It breaks out in a rash of planet-sized sunspots that spew superhot gas, hurling clouds of electrons, protons, and heavier ions toward Earth at nearly the speed of light
A long, thin rope-like creature standing erect on the sea floor up to 570 million years ago has been identified as the first animal on Earth to have had sex.
TORONTO -- Most Canadians are blissfully unaware that the water they take for granted is being threatened by overuse and mismanagement, say experts who warn climate change could soon make water shortages an unmistakable reality across the country.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish.
WASHINGTON -- Scientists say the explosion of a star halfway across the universe was so huge it set a record for the most distant object that could be seen on Earth by the naked eye.
Industry Minister Jim Prentice is holding off government approval of the sale of Canada's top space company and a multi-million dollar taxpayer-funded satellite to a U.S. weapons maker.
WASHINGTON -- Low-oxygen zones where sea life is threatened or cannot survive are growing as the oceans are heated by global warming, a new study warns.
Cancer researchers from around the world banded together today to announce the launch of a massive international effort - headquartered in Toronto – to map the genetic origins of cancer.
Scientists have found 17 living relatives of a centuries-old "iceman," whose remains were discovered in a melting glacier in northern British Columbia nine years ago.
MONTREAL - A noise-making device that drives away rowdy youth with an irritating high-pitched squeal has quietly landed on Canadian shores after a raucous European debut.
WASHINGTON -- Famed astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has been thinking a lot about the cosmic question, "Are we alone?''
WASHINGTON -- Planet Earth continues to run a fever. Last month was the warmest March on record over land surfaces of the world and the second warmest overall worldwide.
THERE are so many satellites jostling for position above us that a snapshot from outer space would appear to show the Earth enveloped in a swarm of gnats.
It's an amazing story: a 13-year-old German boy's science fair entry spots a miscalculation in NASA's estimates on an asteroid colliding with Earth, forcing the space agency to change its prediction
California faces an almost certain risk of being rocked by a strong earthquake by 2037, scientists said in the first statewide temblor forecast.
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- A deep-water exploration area off Brazil's coast could contain as much as 33 billion barrels of oil, the head of Brazil's National Petroleum Agency said Monday. That would make it the world's third-largest known oil reserve.
GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Scientists listening to underwater microphones have detected an unusual swarm of earthquakes off central Oregon, something that often happens before a volcanic eruption - except there are no volcanoes in the area.
Advanced ground and space-based telescopes are discovering new planets around other stars almost daily, but an environmental scientist from England believes that even if some of those planets turn out to be Earth-like, the odds are very low they'll have 
GENEVA -- The father of a theoretical subatomic particle dubbed "the God particle'' says he's almost sure its existence will be confirmed in the next year.
The chance of a major earthquake striking Vancouver Island will be slightly higher next month as tiny tremors rattle the earth 40 kilometres beneath our feet.
WASHINGTON -- Astronomers at 25 observatories around the world began aiming their telescopes this week at a preview of our sun's eventual death.
LOS ANGELES – An international spacecraft that dove through geysers erupting from the surface of a Saturn moon found organic matter, one of many ingredients that make an environment hospitable to extraterrestrial life
Every 11 years or so, the sun gets a little pissy. It breaks out in a rash of planet-sized sunspots that spew superhot gas, hurling clouds of electrons, protons, and heavier ions toward Earth at nearly the speed of light
Scientists have discovered the oldest human remains in western Europe.
Wildlife scientists are scouring deserted mines in southern Quebec for traces of a deadly disease decimating bat populations in the U.S. northeast.
A long, thin rope-like creature standing erect on the sea floor up to 570 million years ago has been identified as the first animal on Earth to have had sex.
TORONTO -- Most Canadians are blissfully unaware that the water they take for granted is being threatened by overuse and mismanagement, say experts who warn climate change could soon make water shortages an unmistakable reality across the country.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Scientists who conducted the most comprehensive survey to date of New Zealand's Antarctic waters were surprised by the size of some specimens found, including jellyfish with 12-foot tentacles and 2-foot-wide starfish.
WASHINGTON -- Scientists say the explosion of a star halfway across the universe was so huge it set a record for the most distant object that could be seen on Earth by the naked eye.
Industry Minister Jim Prentice is holding off government approval of the sale of Canada's top space company and a multi-million dollar taxpayer-funded satellite to a U.S. weapons maker.