The rusty patched bumble bee population has finally reached endangered levels. The US Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday proposed listing the rusty patched bumble bee for federal protection as an endangered species. The species, named for a distinctive red patch on its belly, was once abundant in the upper midwestern and northeastern United States, but its population has been …

Official pricing information for the 2017 Chevy Bolt EV has now been revealed, bringing with it no real surprises. The starting price in the US is $37,495 and the starting price in Canada is CAD$42,795. With current conversion rates, though, that Canadian price is actually about USD$5,000 lower than the US price. In certain Canadian provinces, government purchase and financing …

The body of Canadian actor Richard Hong has been found at the Hollywood Hills rental home of television personality George Stroumboulopoulos on Friday. The victim was found at 2:17 a.m. as officers investigated a reported burglary in the 6700 block of Milner Road, said Los Angeles police Officer Drake Madison of the department’s Media Relations Division. The deceased appeared to …

Mark Zuckerberg, Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking, have pledged $100 million on a mission to find aliens on that planet we recently discovered. The project known as Breakthrough Listen will use the world’s most powerful telescope to listen out for messages from potential extra-terrestrial life. So it’s only fitting the three billionaires will be helping to fund the costly scientific …

The Guelph Police Service is warning the public to watch out for discarded needles and syringes after a child picked one up near a local playground. Police say the child was playing when he found the syringe in nearby bushes. Luckily, the parents were there and the child was not harmed during the incident.

Japan’s Hinode sun-observing satellite has delivered spectacular imagery and invaluable measurements of the sun since it launched into space 10 years ago on Sept. 23, 2006. “The sun is terrifying and gorgeous, and it’s also the best physics laboratory in our solar system,” said Sabrina Savage, project scientist for Hinode at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “In …

Despite the relatively niche segment, luxury manufacturers continue to release soft-roading variants of full-sized wagons. Following earlier reveals from Audi and Volvo, Mercedes-Benz just unveiled the dirt-road-ready E-Class All-Terrain ahead of its official debut at this year’s Paris auto show. The All-Terrain is noticeably taller than the E-Class station wagon that it’s based on. It receives a twin-slat grille that …

Physicist Stephen Hawking has issued yet another warning regarding how aliens could be incredibly dangerous and why we’d be foolish to try and communicate with them. Last month, Russian astronomers with the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute detected a promising microwave signal that seemed to emanate from deep space. Subsequent review, however, found that the transmission was likely a …

Five people were fatally shot Friday night in the Cascade Mall in Burlington, and officers fanned out searching for the shooter, according to the Washington State Patrol. The gunman killed four women in the cosmetics department of the Macy’s store at Cascade Mall, according to spokesman for the patrol, Sergeant Mark Francis. A fifth victim, a man who had been …

An early Thursday morning eruption of the Turrialba volcano may mean a repeat of Monday and Tuesday, as ash and gas reaching a height of 2,000 metres (2 kilometres) spreads north and west through the Central Valley. According to media reports, the Juan Santamaria International Airport in San Jose was forced to temporarily shut down Monday due to the volcanic …

China’s first space station, the Tiangong-1 or “Heavenly Palace 1,” is expected to fall back to Earth in 2017. In a press conference last week, a senior official with the Chinese space program said the country’s first space station, Tiangong-1, which means “Heavenly Palace,” is expected to fall into the Earth’s atmosphere in the second half of 2017.