Canada plans to restrict six chemicals used to make the drug fentanyl in a bid to stem what it called a national opioid crisis, the Canadian health minister said Wednesday. The regulator says police have reported an increase in domestic production of illicit fentanyl. It’s a shift from pharmaceutical forms of the drug, like the patch. But critics say the …

A remarkable video of a hawk flying around, picking up a snake, then dropping onto a family barbeque has gone viral since it was released Tuesday morning. Melbourne radio station 3AW published the video on YouTube Wednesday morning, although did apply some caution by asking readers to “be the judge” of whether or not the video was a spoof. The …

Hundreds of kilos of cocaine have been discovered in a shipment by Coca-Cola employees in France. “The first elements of the investigation have shown that employees are in no way involved,” said regional Coca-Cola president Jean-Denis Malgras.

Stanford researchers have redefined cool fashion, developing a plastic-based textile that functions as wearable airconditioning. Describing their work in Science, the researchers suggest that this new family of fabrics could become the basis for garments that keep people cool in hot climates without air conditioning. “If you can cool the person rather than the building where they work or live, …

Isabelle Lagace, 28, and 23-year-old Melina Roberge from Quebec in Canada were reportedly arrested in Australia on Sunday, on suspicion of importing 95kg of cocaine. For the past two months, two Canadian women were making their friends back home super jealous with their Instagrams from a lavish, two-month, around-the-world luxury cruise. That is until they were arrested for smuggling $23 …

Phobos, the largest Martian moon, will one day be ripped apart by the planet’s tidal forces – but it has already been significantly damaged as a result of its orbit. Strange strings of craters etched into the largest of Mars’ moons formed when bits of rock from collisions were thrown into Martian orbit, whizzed around the red planet, then crashed …

Samsung launched the Gear S3 smartwatch as it looked to steal a march on Apple and its heavily-anticipated update of its wearable. According to Reuters, Samsung unveiled the new wearable on Wednesday, ahead of 2016 IFA, which will be held in Berlin. During the release, the company boasted of the Gear S3, which reportedly can run for four days on …

Scientists just voted on declaring a new geological age influenced by humans. The Anthropocene epoch is said to be a “new age of man” signifying the intense influence human activity is having on the future geological record. Humanity’s influence on the Earth is so great, an entirely new geological epoch called the Anthropocene should be declared, according to scientists from …

Google has announced that Cast functionality has been integrated directly into the Chrome browser. Casting between the browser and a Chromecast connected device works by allowing users to stream any page to the Chromecast connected device (ie HDMI TV). To Cast a page that isn’t natively supported for streaming, users need to head over to the Chrome Settings menu and …

Ever since a photo of a heartbroken couple of 62 years sharing a tearful goodbye before returning to their separate nursing homes went viral, offers to help the couple have poured in from around the world. After 62 years of marriage, Wolfram and Anita Gottschalk are being forced to live apart. For eight months, the couple has been living in …

Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable planet orbiting the closest star to our solar system that appears to be able to support life, according to a study published Wednesday. The newly-discovered planet, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red host star once every 11 days, is slightly more massive than Earth and is the exoplanet located closest to our homeworld, …