This year’s winners included a study that explores the feasibility of using pigeons to guide missiles, an experiment that saw scientists explode a paper bag next to a cat standing on the back of a cow, and a paper that explores the swimming abilities of dead trout.
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A new report from a team of anthropologists argues that monkey bars exercise a biological need passed down from apes that may be critical to childhood development. And the authors say well-intentioned efforts to mitigate their risk may, in fact, be harming kids.
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Newly released access to information documents from the Japanese government show at least 21 horses died during or in the days after being flown from Canada for slaughter in Japan between May 2023 and June 2024. That contradicts information from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.
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While many post-secondary students worry about how artificial intelligence might affect their future employment aspirations, AI experts argue the technology isn't a substitute for human judgement and creativity.
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Ontario Environment Ministry staff plan to reach out to local commercial pesticide operators to assess whether any local residential pesticide applications took place when 1.2 million bees were killedin June.
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A billionaire stepped out for the first private spacewalk Thursday, teaming up with SpaceX on the daring endeavour hundreds of miles above Earth.
Tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman and his crew waited until their capsule was depressurized before popping open the hatch. Isaacman was to be the first one out, aiming to join a small elite group of spacewalkers who until now had represented countries.
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Some time more than 30 years ago, a single Chinese peach blossom jellyfish made its way into a lake in British Columbia.
Exactly how it arrived is not clear, researchers say — perhaps it was in aquarium water — but decades later, thousands of genetic clones of the same organism have been spotted in 34 waterways around the province.
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Aaron James still can't see out of his new left eye. But the fact that his body accepted the transplant is being hailed as a major breakthrough on the path to developing vision-restoration surgery.
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The crew of the Polaris Dawn mission is conducting one of the riskiest tests in their five-day mission: the first commercial spacewalk using SpaceX’s newly designed spacesuits.
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A Manitoba farmer says he's hopeful a new technology being tested on his land could change the face of agriculture not only in this province, but across Canada.
One of the main ingredients required for farming is anhydrous ammonia, which is used for nitrogen fertilizer, says Curtis Hiebert, who is the operator of R & L Acres and has been farming since he was 12.
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An aquatic botanist at UNB has been keeping track of the invasive Eurasian watermilfoil and has watched it take a firm hold throughout much of the St. John River.
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A crew of four private astronauts ascended into space early Tuesday on a risky SpaceX mission to attempt the first-ever private spacewalk using the company's new spacesuits and a redesigned spacecraft.
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Adam Taylor, executive director of the Marmot Recovery Foundation, recounts the moment a yearling marmot tried to snack on his GoPro camera in the Haley Lake Ecological Reserve near Nanaimo, B.C.
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A Sept. 6 report from the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans says researchers have counted 552 salmon passing a monitoring site at the Chilko River.
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CBC Radio’s What on Earth travelled to Yukon this summer to explore how a warming climate has threatened chinook salmon, endangering not just the species but a cultural keystone for some Indigenous communities.
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Wildlife researchers say they're hopeful there could be a future for the critically endangered Vancouver Island marmot species, after they counted a record number of wild-born pups this summer.
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The northern lights, the total eclipse and the perseid meteor shower are out-of-this-world celestial events driving Canadian stargazers to dark sky tourist spots in 2024. What's also up, in some places, are noise complaints, nocturnal roadkill and bad behaviour.
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Experts say that infection rates in Canada for mosquito-borne diseases are relatively low, but evolving environmental factors — including climate change — mean people should still take precautions to avoid getting bitten.
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As temperatures around the world continue their upward ascendency, Bob McDonald took note of how Spain has been dealing with its desert-like heat with lessons for a world that's heating up.
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Willow, an accelerant detection dog with the Calgary Fire Department, is trained to sniff out odors from ignitable liquids, helping investigators determine fire causes and arson more quickly.
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Researchers found that infant deaths increased after farmers used more pesticides to battle pests when bats weren't around. The findings are part of growing evidence that humans rely on the animal and plant species around them, and are harmed when those species decline or go extinct.
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Joël Lapointe was mapping his camping route on Google Maps when he noticed an odd circular pit in Quebec’s Côte-Nord region. Now, scientists are studying samples from the site with the hope of a 2025 field trip.
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When marine biologist James A. Sulikowski started monitoring the migration of endangered porbeagle sharks, he didn’t expect he would end up investigating a murder mystery.
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Spiking wasp numbers are putting a dint in an otherwise pleasant late summer across Canada, especially in the Prairies where some people say they can barely enjoy outdoor patios because of the swarming insects.
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It’s been a long time coming, but Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is finally returning to Earth — without its two astronauts. The capsule is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on Friday and land at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico early Saturday morning.
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A satellite orbiting high above the Earth is giving researchers valuable insight into the health of a Nova Scotia river that acts as a vital habitat for endangered species and is beloved by paddlers, anglers and birders alike.
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The brainwave-reading technology of EEG helps monitor people with epilepsy and can detect when we're dozing off behind the wheel in a simulator. As scientists mark the 100th anniversary of EEG, here's why many in the field are excited about its future uses in medicine.
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A beluga whale that was suspected of spying for Russia after being discovered in Norwegian waters five years ago with a harness on it has now been found dead, according to the non-profit organization that had been monitoring the whale.
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Pest control technician JS Ouelette says this hot, dry summer has been good for business, with 25 to 40 calls per day to remove wasp nests — roughly four times the typical call volume.
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A rare pygmy sperm whale washed ashore on Newfoundland’s Avalon Peninsula last week. Julie Huntington says while taking samples for study, the creature’s defensive ink was spilled.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 vehicle may return to flight operations while the overall investigation of the anomaly during a recent Starlink mission remains open, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday.
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