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Deep sea mining 'gold rush' moves closer
The prospect of a deep sea "gold rush" opening a controversial new frontier for mining on the ocean floor has moved a step closer.
The prospect of a deep sea "gold rush" opening a controversial new frontier for mining on the ocean floor has moved a step closer.
Turtle hit by car airlifted 400 km for medical care
A snapping turtle injured by a car in Ontario has been airlifted more than 400 kilometres to an animal hospital, and is now on a slow road to recovery. 97% of scientists believe in man-made global warmingScience | 131 hits | 8:15 PM on Wednesday | posted by BeaverFever
3 powerful solar flares erupt from the sun, but Earth won't be destroyed
The sun unleashed three massive solar flares in a 24-hour period earlier this week, including one travelling at over 2,200 kilometres per second which was expected to catch up with the earlier two and form a super cloud of dangerous solar energy hurtling World's oldest flowing water found deep in Timmins mineScience | 105 hits | 5:44 PM on Wednesday | posted by BeaverFever
Israel rocked as Hawking joins boycott
Stephen Hawking has pulled out of a high-profile conference to be held in Jerusalem in June to support an academic boycott of Israel, conference organisers and the university said on Wednesday.
Stephen Hawking has pulled out of a high-profile conference to be held in Jerusalem in June to support an academic boycott of Israel, conference organisers and the university said on Wednesday. Driving study could keep seniors on the road longer
Driving can be a challenge for people later in life. But new research suggests that keeping senior citizens confident and on the road could be safer for everyone. Cannibal sharks eat siblings in utero
For sand tiger sharks, a deadly kind of sibling rivalry begins even before birth – and that's bad news for many would-be shark dads, a new study suggests. Earth's core 1,000 degrees hotter than thought, on par with the sun
Think it’s hot on the sun? Well it’s just as hot under your feet, according to new research suggesting the Earth’s core is a scorching mass of iron that's roughly the same temperature as the sun.Einstein's theory of general relativity seen in action by astronomers
The neutron star, which is just 12 miles across but weights twice as much as our own sun, has gravity that is 300 billion times stronger than that felt on the surface of Earth.
At the centre of this star, a billion tonnes of matter would be squeezed in
The neutron star, which is just 12 miles across but weights twice as much as our own sun, has gravity that is 300 billion times stronger than that felt on the surface of Earth.
At the centre of this star, a billion tonnes of matter would be squeezed in 4 facts about the pink full moon
Although it's not actually pink in colour, April's full moon has historically been a sign of the arrival of spring. And tonight when it rises, it will coincide with a partial lunar eclipse. 1-way Mars trip starts accepting astronaut applications
Want to spend the rest of your life on Mars? Mars One, which plans to send humans to establish a permanent settlement on Mars in 2023, began accepting online applications this week. Ontario intervenes to save Experimental Lakes AreaScience | 151 hits | 10:17 AM on Wednesday | posted by BeaverFever
Premier Kathleen Wynne says Ontario is willing to ‘put operating dollars’ into the Experimental Lakes AreaScientists decode DNA of 'living fossil' fish
Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated 'living fossil' fish, gaining new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor.
Scientists have decoded the DNA of a celebrated 'living fossil' fish, gaining new insights into how today's mammals, amphibians, reptiles and birds evolved from a fish ancestor.NASA Rushing Orion Capsule for 2014 Launch For Asteroid Plan
NASA has a plan to wrangle an asteroid and park it in lunar orbit, or as we've come to know it -- the plan to to give the Moon a moon. One step in that plan is to send astronauts into space to visit the Moon's moon, and to do that, they'll need the Orion
NASA has a plan to wrangle an asteroid and park it in lunar orbit, or as we've come to know it -- the plan to to give the Moon a moon. One step in that plan is to send astronauts into space to visit the Moon's moon, and to do that, they'll need the Orion Creature Combined Human, Ape Traits
Deepening the mystery of human origins, researchers offered the most complete view yet of a puzzling forerunner of humankind that was a collage of primitive and modern anatomy.
Deepening the mystery of human origins, researchers offered the most complete view yet of a puzzling forerunner of humankind that was a collage of primitive and modern anatomy. Weekend Aurora Alert: The Sun Lets Loose an Earth-Directed CME
The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this view as the Sun let loose with its biggest solar flare of the year so far. It’s not a real big one — a mid-level flare classified as an M6.5 – but an associated Rare dinosaur fossil bed reveals growth inside eggs
A Canadian-led group of paleontologists is getting a detailed look at how baby dinosaurs developed inside their eggs, by examining an ancient fossil bed full of embryos. Radarsat-1 down: Canada's eye in the sky blinks out
A “technical anomaly” appears to have knocked out Canada’s Radarsat-1 satellite, which has been beaming images of everything from Arctic ice to oil spills down to Earth for almost 18 years.
The satellite, which gathered detailed images day and night, t Astronomers watch as distant black hole roars to life, devours planetary structure
Astronomers watching a distant galaxy were stunned to see a black hole wake up like a hibernating bear, look around for a snack, then swallow a giant planetary structure that happened to venture too close.Tarantula the size of a dinner plate discovered in Sri Lanka
The arachnid, which can grow up to eight inches in diameter, has caused a panic among villagers, many of whom believe that its bite can be deadly.
Experts said a bite from the new find, named Poecilotheria rajaei, is not fatal, but residents in the Man
The arachnid, which can grow up to eight inches in diameter, has caused a panic among villagers, many of whom believe that its bite can be deadly.
Experts said a bite from the new find, named Poecilotheria rajaei, is not fatal, but residents in the ManKepler Watches White Dwarf Warp Spacetime
The Kepler space telescope's prime objective is to hunt for small worlds orbiting distant stars, but that doesn't mean it's not going to detect some extreme relativistic phenomena along the way.
The Kepler space telescope's prime objective is to hunt for small worlds orbiting distant stars, but that doesn't mean it's not going to detect some extreme relativistic phenomena along the way.Scientists home in on mysterious dark matter
GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists said on Wednesday they may be close to tracking down the mysterious dark matter which makes up more than a quarter of the universe but has never been seen.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists said on Wednesday they may be close to tracking down the mysterious dark matter which makes up more than a quarter of the universe but has never been seen.Discovery of rare two-headed bull shark stuns scientists
It's the stuff of nightmares for anyone with a shark phobia, but for scientists the discovery of a two-headed bull shark is a unique opportunity to study one of nature's rare glitches.
It's the stuff of nightmares for anyone with a shark phobia, but for scientists the discovery of a two-headed bull shark is a unique opportunity to study one of nature's rare glitches. Astronomers map universe's beginning with space telescope 'time machine'
A space telescope that spent over a year mapping the birth of the universe has revealed the cosmos is older than originally thought, but began with a single 'Big Bang' explosion that caused the universe to burst from subatomic size to a sprawling expanse Big Bang's afterglow, older universe spotted by telescope | CTV News
Science | 179 hits | 5:55 AM on Thursday | posted by BeaverFever
Voyager 1 has left the solar system
A 35-year-old space probe has become the first human-made object to make it beyond our solar system, a new study suggests. ON Med Assn calls for farm antibiotics crackdown Science | 129 hits | 11:52 AM on Wednesday | posted by BeaverFever
Report: Humanity Leaves the Solar System — Or Maybe Not
It was a threshold crossed in the deepest reaches of space: A spacecraft launched from Earth has now entered new and unexplored territory that may or may not be outside our solar system. A press release issued at 11:05 a.m. Mega-planet's ingredients point to solar system like ours
A planet several times more massive than Jupiter, orbiting a star 130 light years away, is part of a solar system that is likely very similar to our own, a new study suggests. Earthquakes turn water into gold
Gold could be deposited almost instantaneously in the Earth's crust during earthquakes, say Australian researchers. Phallus-shaped acorn worms resolve fossil mystery
A beach-dwelling sea creature has stubbornly kept the same phallus-shaped form from the time of the trilobites through the rise and fall of the dinosaurs to the present day, suggests a study that identifies a mystery fossil in the Canada's Burgess Shale.Curiosity Finds Evidence For a Habitable Ancient Mars
Curiosity finds evidence that the red planet was once capable of supporting life.
Science | 180 hits | 7:27 AM on Thursday | posted by ShepherdsDog
Curiosity finds evidence that the red planet was once capable of supporting life. Chris Hadfield takes command of International Space Station
Astronaut Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station at 5:10 p.m. ET, when he officially takes the reins of the orbiting laboratory. Alma telescope: Ribbon cut on astronomical giant
Alma - the most complex ground-based telescope in existence - is officially opened during an inauguration ceremony in Chile's Atacama Desert. "It will help us answer where we come from or whether we are alone in the Universe," said Thijs de Graauw, projecAstrobiologists Find Ancient Fossils in Fireball Fragments | MIT Technology Review
Algae-like structures inside a Sri Lankan meteorite are clear evidence of panspermia, the idea that life exists throughout the universe, say astrobiologists.
Science | 243 hits | 7:28 PM on Tuesday | posted by commanderkai
Algae-like structures inside a Sri Lankan meteorite are clear evidence of panspermia, the idea that life exists throughout the universe, say astrobiologists.Comet posing beside crescent moon in cool photo op
Amateur astronomers will have a chance to snap the comet that just streaked within 160 million kilometres of Earth in a rare twilight photo op Tuesday evening.
Amateur astronomers will have a chance to snap the comet that just streaked within 160 million kilometres of Earth in a rare twilight photo op Tuesday evening.'Rapid' heat spike unlike anything in 11,000 years
A new study looking at 11,000 years of climate temperatures shows the world in the middle of a dramatic U-turn, lurching from near-record cooling to a heat spike.
A new study looking at 11,000 years of climate temperatures shows the world in the middle of a dramatic U-turn, lurching from near-record cooling to a heat spike. Canadian researchers take a step toward a quantum computer
In an Ottawa lab, scientists have succeeded in side-stepping an obstacle of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, a strange law of the quantum world Extra radiation belt around Earth surprises scientists
A pair of well-known radiation belts surrounding the Earth are sometimes a trio, a new study has found.First glimpse of a black hole's spin
Astronomers use X-ray light to measure the rate of spin of a supermassive black hole for the first time, giving hints as to how it formed.
Astronomers use X-ray light to measure the rate of spin of a supermassive black hole for the first time, giving hints as to how it formed.NASA's basement nuclear reactor
The future of energy may lie in a nuclear reactor small enough and safe enough to be installed where the home water heater once sat.
The future of energy may lie in a nuclear reactor small enough and safe enough to be installed where the home water heater once sat. Cosmos may be 'inherently unstable'
Scientists say further study of the Higgs boson will reveal if there is an inherent instability in the Universe, leading to its eventual replacement. Hummingbirds migrating earlier in spring: study
Ruby-throated hummingbirds are migrating to North America weeks earlier than in decades past, and research indicates that higher temperatures in their winter habitat may be the reason.Why did the Russian meteor catch astronomers by surprise?
The meteor that streaked through the sky over Russia caught local residents and astronomers by surprise. Contrast that to the asteroid that’s expected to fly by our planet Friday; scientists have been tracking that object for months. Why are both rocks co
The meteor that streaked through the sky over Russia caught local residents and astronomers by surprise. Contrast that to the asteroid that’s expected to fly by our planet Friday; scientists have been tracking that object for months. Why are both rocks co Asteroid arrives today for extra-close flyby
A 130,000-tonne asteroid will fly closer to Earth today than any other object its size or larger has ever been predicted to come — without making a landing. Sea slug's disposable penis regenerates in 24 hours
If you're the kind of sea creature that cuts off its penis after use, that's no excuse for turning down a new partner the next day — and the day after that, Japanese researchers have found.Back to Canada News
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