Hospital funding in Ontario is much lower than hospital funding in the rest of Canada – $4.8 billion lower. There should be about 1,600 more staff at London hospitals according to the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions of CUPE. The council’s president Michael Hurley says local hospitals have shortfalls of 406 nurses and 1,200 hospital staff because of a $129-million …

Three pregnant women are now among 46 confirmed cases of Zika virus across the state, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Eight women in Illinois are listed in the Zika Virus Pregnancy Registry, but an IDPH statement says five of those cases have not been confirmed, and those women may have Zika virus or Dengue fever. This news …

Roberto Vazquez may have to change his business cards to: “Photographer by day, Pokemon Master by night.” Vazquez of Toronto spent three and half weeks catching all the Pokemon. His endeavor was fortuitous in more ways than one: he managed to shed 11 kg (25 pounds) in the process. The Canadian now owns all 142 Pocket Monsters that are available …

Ransomware is responsible for disrupting more than half of UK companies in the past year with nearly 40 percent of businesses suffering attacks. Out of 540 polled CIOs, CISOs, and IT Directors from companies in the UK, US, Canada and Germany which have more than 5,000 employees – almost 40 per cent have been hit by ransomware in the last …

Apple is willing to pay up to $200k if you are able to identify vulnerabilities in its software in a new bug bounty program. The announcement was made at Black Hat security conference today. In a departure from most bug bounty programs, Apple is encouraging those who receive the rewards to donate them to charity, at which point the company …

The Hiroshima city government said Thursday representatives from 91 nations and the European Union are scheduled to attend its annual ceremony on Saturday to commemorate the U.S. atomic bombing in 1945, while peace activists held annual conferences. The annual ceremony took place in front of a monument at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, with some 300 participants attending, including atomic …

New study, from Imperial College London, suggests that it is possible to create a new form of light by binding light to a single electron, combining the properties of both. In normal materials, light interacts with a whole host of electrons present on the surface and within the material. But by using theoretical physics to model the behaviour of light …

The number of honey bee colonies fell by almost 12 per cent across 29 countries last winter with the UK and Spain worst affected, according to an international study involving the University of Strathclyde and honey bee research association COLOSS. Cases of colonies perishing after problems occurred with their queen were higher than expected. Dr Alison Gray, of Strathclyde’s Department of …

A working prototype of the Nissan BladeGlider has been unveiled in Rio de Janiero ahead of the Olympics later this week. Conceptually, the narrow-front Bladeglider borrows from Nissan ZEOD RC race car of 2013, employing the same close-spaced front wheels and minimal mass to a vehicle meant for practical everyday use rather than on-track technology demonstration. The Bladeglider uses its …

Shape-shifting electronic circuits that can self-assemble are inching closer. Engineers in Australia and Switzerland have manipulated the movements and shape of a drop of liquid metal by adjusting the acidity of its watery environment. The team, led by Melbourne’s RMIT University’s Kourosh Kalatar-zadeh, says the work could help dynamic elastic electronic components that move autonomously to create new circuits, rather …

Oksana Chusovitina will be competing at her seventh Olympics. At 41, the “Queen Mum” of gymnastics is set to be the oldest-ever gymnast in Games history. “I have a picture of Tom Cruise on my wall as I really like him. So I look at him every day and think I have to look young for him. Someday, if and …