| NASA eyes unprecedented mission to unlock Sun's biggest mysteries NASA is developing an unprecedented mission to study the Sun closer than ever... | |
| Ultraviolet starlight key to making water in space ESA's Herschel infrared space observatory has discovered the key ingredient for making water in space- ultraviolet... |
| WWF: We Want Your 'Roar Of Support' For Tigers Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 07:30 CDT The World Wildlife Fund for Nature on Thursday urged the general public to send in a recorded “roar of support” for endangered wild tigers, whose... |
| NASA Hurricane Researchers Eye Earl's Eye Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 09:10 CDT Hurricane Earl, currently a Category Two storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale with maximum sustained winds of 100 knots (115 miles per hour), continues... |
| GOES-13 Sees Hurricane Earl's Clouds Covering The US Northeast Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 09:05 CDT Hurricane Earl lashed the North Carolina coast last night and this morning, September 3, and is now headed for Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This... |
| NASA Sees Depression Nine Become Gaston Then Back To A Depression Posted on: Thursday, 2 September 2010, 18:00 CDT Tropical Depression Nine strengthened yesterday into Tropical Storm Gaston, but today it ran into dry and stable air and weakened back into a... |
| NASA Catches Earl's Heavy Rainfall As It Approaches The US Posted on: Thursday, 2 September 2010, 18:00 CDT Hurricane Earl is still a powerful category four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Scale as it approaches the North Carolina coast today. NASA's... |
| Bermuda In Warnings As GOES-13 Catches Fiona Approaching Posted on: Thursday, 2 September 2010, 18:00 CDT Bermuda has warnings up as Tropical Storm Fiona approaches, and GOES-13 satellite imagery from today shows that Fiona, although packing a punch, is... |
| Ancient Nubians drank antibiotic-lacked beer People have been using antibiotics for nearly 2,000 years, suggests a new study, which found large doses of tetracycline embedded in the bones of ancient African mummies. What's more, they... |
| Plant and spiders compete for food Wolf spiders and carnivorous plants called sundews may compete with each other for food in the wild, a new study finds. The two organisms, which both... |
| Pakistan-U.S. Science and Technology Cooperation Grants U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesman September 2, 2010 MEDIA NOTE Pakistan-U.S. Science and Technology Cooperation Program Announces Twenty-Seven Research Grants The Governments of the... |
| Free for all: Science movie night, etc. The Utah Museum of Natural History announces its Science Movie Night, screening the documentary “The Life of Birds” that explores the most colorful, popular birds on earth. After the movie, Bruce... |
| Scientists: UV rays make water in space They made the discovery while examining a dying star that is 500 light-years away from Earth, using an infrared observatory launched by the European Space Agency last... |
| Veteran Canadian astronaut Hadfield to command space station Colonel Chris Hadfield looks over a model of the International Space Station at the Longueuil headquarters of the Canadian Space Agency in Longueuil near Montreal Thursday, September 2, 2010. It was... |
| Wolves fail to halt aspen decline The re-introduction of wolves in a US National Park has not helped re-establish quaking aspens, as many researchers had hoped. Writing in the journal Ecology, a team of scientists found that wolves... |
| Britain Leads World for Environmentally Friendly Burials Britain is leading the world in green burials as more and more people decide to be laid to rest in woodlands, meadows, farmlands and other habitats which are rich in wildlife -- and there are... |
| International Effort to Improve Muscular Dystrophy Treatment A large international study aimed at improving the care of muscular dystrophy patients worldwide is being launched by physicians, physical therapists, and researchers at the University of... |
| Earth from Space: Giant Iceberg Enters Nares Strait ESA's Envisat satellite has been tracking the progression of the giant iceberg that calved from Greenland's Petermann glacier on 4 August 2010. This animation shows that the iceberg, the... |
| Satellite Data Reveals Why Migrating Birds Have a Small Window to Spread Bird Flu In 2005 an outbreak of the H5N1 'bird flu' virus in South East Asia led to widespread fear with predictions that the intercontinental migration of wild birds could lead to global pandemic.... |
| Next Step in Evolution? A Technical Life Form That Passes on Knowledge and Experience Dutch biologist Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis has developed the ‘operator hierarchy’ -- a system based on the complexity of particles and of organisms, which can predict the next step... |
| US Neurologists Agree on Protocols for Treatment of Infantile Spasms Researchers from across the U.S., as part of the Infantile Spasms Working Group (ISWG), established guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of infantile spasms (IS). The goal of the ISWG is... |
| How Bone-Marrow Stem Cells Hold Their 'Breath' in Low-Oxygen Environments UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified unique metabolic properties that allow a specific type of stem cell in the body to survive and replicate in low-oxygen... |
| Hair Provides Proof of the Link Between Chronic Stress and Heart Attack Researchers at The University of Western Ontario have provided the first direct evidence using a biological marker, to show chronic stress plays an important role in heart... |
| Why your brain flips over visual illusions IT'S a big skull. No, wait, it's two people under an arch. Hold on, it's a skull again. Two very different images can be perceived in the trick picture Blossom and Decay (see right). Now we are one... |
| Earth from space: Giant iceberg enters Nares Strait ESA's Envisat satellite has been tracking the progression of the giant iceberg that calved from Greenland's Petermann glacier on August 4,... |
| The Christian Science Monitor: The Dow vs. the economy A screen at the New York Stock Exchange shows the Dow Jones Industrial Average, top left, dip below 10,000 on Aug. 25. One week later, on Wednesday, Sept. 1, the Dow opened 130 points above the... |
| Off-duty cop takes down mugging suspect Toronto police detective Mike Perreault was driving home from work on Thursday, September 2, 2010, when saw a youth allegedly robbing a pedestrian at knife point. Perreault gave chase and made the... |
| Police prepare for 'the worst' in missing woman case Photos from the scene ORANGEVILLE, Ont. - Police hunting clues to Orangeville nurse Sonia Varaschin's disappearance fear she may be dead, a lead OPP detective said Thursday. Despite continued hope... |
| WWII bomber found in the English Channel The Royal Air Force Museum plans to display this German bomber as part of a Battle of Britain exhibit after it was found perfectly preserved in the English Channel. (submitted photo) A German bomber... |
| Court overrules appeal on science park expansion project The development of the Central Taiwan Science Park's Houli branch in Miaoli County will remain suspended as the Supreme Administrative Court overruled Thursday an appeal filed by agencies under the... |
| Ants Protect African Trees From Elephants: Study Posted on: Friday, 3 September 2010, 06:25 CDT A species of acacia tree in Eastern Africa seems to be protected from elephants by ants, according to new research from scientists at the... |
| I'm in heaven with my telescope Wordsworth of the commodification of the natural world by the industrial revolution. The poet's lyrical sonnet mourns the loss of intimacy between Man and Nature, a privation I recognised last month... |
| Apple and Google to clash in music space by Christmas Google is in talks with music labels on plans for a download store and a digital song locker that would allow its mobile users to play songs wherever they are as it steps up its rivalry with Apple... |
| Some Ancient Galaxies Had Wild Youth This image captures galaxies that are relatively local alongside some that date back almost 10 billion years, soon after the Big Bang. The most distant galaxies stand out clearly in the infrared,... |
| Space, a Canadian frontier SURVEYING HIS DOMAIN Max Harrold reports that astronaut Chris Hadfield had a strong professional interest in a model of the International Space Station at the headquarters of the Canadian Space... |
| Siberian scientists to track snow leopards using 'photo traps' Russian scientists will install special video cameras - so-called photo traps - to monitor endangered snow leopards in southwestern Siberia, the Altai Nature Reserve's deputy security head said on... |
| Nano-engineered cotton promises to wipe out water bugs COTTON impregnated with silver nanowires and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) could provide a cheap and effective method of purifying water in remote... |
| Why the 'sixth extinction' will be unpredictable A major extinction event is under way – but predicting which species will survive could be harder than we thought. That's the conclusion of one of the most accurate analyses ever of diversity in... |
| Second super-fast flip of Earth's poles found SOME 16 million years ago, north became south in a matter of years. Such fast flips are impossible, according to models of the Earth's core, but this is now the second time that evidence has been... |
| It's old... but you can drink it Tests of the champagne have suggested it had retained its qualities. The consistent water temperature and light levels at about 50 metres depth were factors that benefited the storage of the... |
| Today's Article on Christian Science Hummingbirds: Magic in the Air ,” PBS Nature). I have had renewed respect for this strong and determined creature who is deceptively delicate in appearance. It has provided a helpful metaphor as... |
| Mail stops as hawks go postal CALGARY - Hawks mercilessly strafing posties have halted mail delivery to a southwest neighbourhood. Adult hawks apparently protective of their offspring have made life intolerable for mail-carriers... |
| 100 days for repeatedly raping girl After admitting to repeatedly raping a young girl for years while he was a teenager, a local man was sentenced to a mere 100 days in custody Thursday at the Calgary Courts Centre. (Mike Drew, QMI... |
| Tax cheat to cool heels in comfy home Michael Hersey is sentenced to six months house arrest in this home for income tax evasion and for issuing fraudulent charitable receipts. (Sue Reeve, QMI Agency) LONDON, Ont. - A 46-year-old... |
| Grandma missing in woods needs insulin At least 70 searchers are looking for Nadia Monaco on the ground and from above at Belair Provincial Forest. (Ross Romaniuk, QMI Agency) WINNIPEG - There was no sign Thursday of a missing diabetic... |
| Meet the ultimate whisky chaser Dean Torresan poses with the bow-and-bathroom plunger he uses while chasing an elusive bottle of Canadian Club whisky. (Codie McLachlan, QMI Agency) EDMONTON - First, there was the Most Interesting... |
| Ottawa lurker creeps out women OTTAWA - After being terrorized for a week by a peeping tom, a woman who just moved to Ottawa now feels unsafe in the city she had hoped to call home. "I'm still shaken," she said Thursday, days... |
| Contest weeds out the worst lawn Drew Halliday poses for a photo in front of his neighbour's overgrown front yard, which he nominated for a contest to locate Ottawa's worst lawn. (Errol McGihon, QMI Agency) OTTAWA - It's an... |
| Soldiers endure 50-km land, water race Master Cpl. Gerri Anne Davidson was among the 265 Edmonton-area soldiers who participated in the Exercise Mountain Man competition in the river valley on Thursday. (David Bloom, QMI Agency) ... |
| Cleric wants Dutch politician beheaded AMSTERDAM - A well-known Australian Muslim cleric has called for the beheading of Dutch anti-Islamic politician Geert Wilders, a newspaper said on Friday. Wilders' Freedom Party scored the biggest... |
