Major home retailer just returned to Canada
A major home retailer has just returned to Canada, more than three years after closing all of its…
Asteroid Bennu Came From an Unexpected Corner of the Solar System
Six years after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached out and snagged a sample from the asteroid Bennu, scientists may…
Quantum teleportation breakthrough: Scientists crack a 25-year entanglement challenge
Quantum entanglement captures one of the strangest differences between everyday physics and the quantum world. In an entangled…
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Quantum teleportation breakthrough: Scientists crack a 25-year entanglement challenge
Quantum entanglement captures one of the strangest differences between everyday physics and the quantum world. In an entangled…
Proposed dam near Iqaluit could have ‘adverse impacts,’ QIA admits in board filing
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The ice blasting from Saturn’s moon Enceladus is stranger than scientists realized
Saturn’s moon Enceladus is covered in ice, but beneath that frozen shell lies a global ocean. Near the…
Supermassive Black Holes May Enhance Star Formation
The black holes at the hearts of galaxies get the credit and/or blame for a lot of things…
Study Upends Usual Narrative in Dog-vs-Bear Fights
Dog-versus-bear tales tend to go viral—but a new analysis suggests the reality of what unfolds is different…
Why do some chimpanzee mothers carry their dead infants for months?
In 2003, in the deep forests of Bossou in Guinea, a chimpanzee mother did something that reshaped how…
Pump the Brakes on the West Coast Oil Pipeline, Washington Says
The state of Washington is urging the Mark Carney government not to fast-track the new West Coast oil…
“In moments like this, I feel nothing but gratitude for being in the right place at the right time,” says astrophotographer on award-winning aurora picture taken on a trip to Iceland
Many astrophotographers capture images of the Northern Lights (aurora borealis), but snapping the awe-inspiring frames of the solar…