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AI's 'warning shot': Tech companies, experts raise fears of more rogue swarms after alarming Hugging Face hack
Tech experts are warning of dire consequences if AI systems continue to escape human control, after a group of…
Bald eagle saved from Brantford, Ont., dump looked like 'very smelly drowned rat,' wildlife custodian says
A soaking wet bald eagle that was unable to fly was rescued from the Brantford Landfill Site Scale and is reco…
Canadian who helped design splash-free urinal is proud of his weird science award
A team of University of Waterloo scientists won this year's Ig Nobel Physics Prize for their "theoretical and …
This year's El Niño could be the strongest ever, UN weather agency says
The El Niño weather phenomenon is set to intensify further into 2027 and could be the strongest ever, raising …
Climate change past the point of no return, UN says, as worst impacts are now unavoidable
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has…
Carney's 'hydronym' moment is behind a cheeky campaign to raise awareness about Lake Ontario
Riding on Prime Minister Mark Carney's use of the proper word for a body of water, a London, Ont., company has…
This new type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first
A group of mathematicians and computer scientists has cracked the code to create dice that can determine a win…
How scientists confirmed the 'paint by numbers' Norval Morrisseau fraud ring
Scientists at a little-known federal agency in Ottawa reveal the forensic tools that helped crack the largest …
The 1st Fat Marmot Week winner is a 'special boy who likes to eat rocks'
Dawn, fuzzy fat father who likes the taste of rocks, is officially the most popular yellow-bellied marmot in G…
Corals in decline globally, nearly half a century of data shows
New research highlights the declines in living corals in reefs around the world, showing the unprecedented twi…
NASA launches $4B Roman astronomical observatory to explore depths of space
NASA began a new mission to probe some of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology with the launch …
Change needed after 'multiple failures' led to grizzly deaths, Wildsafe B.C. co-ordinator says
The outgoing community co-ordinator of Wildsafe B.C. Nelson is calling for change, after she says "multiple fa…
Have you seen this squirrel? These Alberta researchers want to know
The elusive Franklin's ground squirrel is the subject of a research project to prove their population has in f…
NASA is launching the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Here are just a few of the wonders it will reveal
If all goes to plan, at 7:26 a.m. Sunday morning, a new space telescope will blast off from Cape Canaveral, Fl…
Animal Justice urges investigation into Marineland beluga death in Chicago, wants relocation efforts halted
Animal Justice is calling for Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to investigate the death in a Chicago aquarium…
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Skygazers got to see a partial lunar eclipse across the Americas, Europe and Africa on Thursday evening into F…
Despite Trump's renaming of Lake Ontario, Great Lakes endure as symbol of U.S.-Canada collaboration
It's unclear whether Trump can unilaterally rename the lake, whose name predates European colonization of the …
One 'absolutely prolific' male bird is keeping his species alive in the U.K.
Conservationists have long been working to keep a rare species of bird from disappearing entirely from the Uni…
How eyelash glue is helping track monarch butterflies to Mexico
For the first time on the Canadian Prairies, researchers with Assiniboine Park Zoo and the Canadian Wildlife S…
'Visual symbol of climate change': Mount Robson's Berg Glacier no longer reaches lake
One of the most picturesque sights in British Columbia is changing — as Mount Robson's Berg Glacier has retrea…
Marineland beluga moved to U.S. dies, dolphins and 2 more whales leave Niagara Falls park for Spain
Peekachu, a beluga recently moved out of Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont., has died at the Shedd Aquarium, th…
Cumberland council moves forward with data centre moratorium
The Municipality of Cumberland is not accepting any applications for data centres that support artificial inte…
Acadia University gets $1.2M to develop new tick repellents
The lab will study what type of ticks are in the province, what pathogens they carry and how they respond to r…