Do whales grieve? Rare footage of humpback alongside stillborn calf suggests they might | Olaf Meynecke for the Conversation
It was a tragic sight. One day last July, a newborn humpback whale calf lay motionless on the…
As climate heats up, a Nova Scotia startup is harnessing the ocean as a climate solution
A Nova Scotia startup is testing a method to capture and store more carbon in the ocean, using…
Canadian clean energy company eyeing Chatham-Kent for gigafactory
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The Sun May Have Swallowed a Planet
New research suggests that some unusual characteristics of the Sun may be explained if it swallowed a large…
Weakly interacting spinons and tightly bound triplons in the frustrated quantum spin-Peierls chain
Tsui, D. C., Stormer, H. L. & Gossard, A. C. Two-dimensional magnetotransport in the extreme quantum limit. Phys.…
In 1949, researchers testing underwater acoustics off Bermuda lowered an early recording system into the water and kept the unexplained sounds it picked up. Seventy-seven years later they were identified as what may be the oldest preserved recording of a whale singing, made before scientists understood humpback whale song.
A man’s voice reads a date onto a plastic disc. “The date, 7 March, 1949,” he says, as…
Hedgehog coronaviruses reveal potential pathways for cross-species transmission
Washington State University researchers have discovered how a group of coronaviruses circulating in hedgehogs invades host cells, a…
Trump EPA’s arguments for letting power plants spew unlimited pollution ‘dead wrong’ | US Environmental Protection Agency
In allowing US power plants to emit any amount of planet-heating pollution they wish to, the Trump administration…
In Focus | China’s rocket boom has made Hainan a space hub. Can launches fuel wider growth?
As technological developments augur an era of renewed space exploration, China is aiming to become a major player.…
Einstein’s theory of gravity could be shaken by a cold beam of atoms
Researchers at the Swiss institutes of ETH Zurich and Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen have produced an…
Fish and Wildlife explains why the cougar seen in Airdrie was euthanized – DiscoverAirdrie.com
The young male cougar euthanized in Airdrie on Sept. 10 was healthy, according to Fish and Wildlife Enforcement…
NASA sees Northern Canada’s seasonal colour change from space
Fall colours come early in the tundra and subarctic ecosystems of Nunavut, says NASA, as their satellite imagery…