Saturn’s biggest moon, Titan, is one of the most interesting bodies in the Solar System. It’s the only other place we know of, besides Earth, that very likely holds liquid water, in the form of a vast underground ocean, and its surface is somewhat Earth-like, splotched with lakes, rivers and seas, albeit of liquid methane and ethane. Researchers at Cornell …

A graphic video shows a Baton Rouge police officer shooting and killing Alton Sterling, a 37-year-old black man who was selling CDs in front of a convenience store early Tuesday morning. Witness Abdul Muflahi, who owns the supermarket in question, said an escalating conflict resulted in one officer using a stun gun on Sterling, and the other tackling him, according …

A new research showing the infamous and massive hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has shrunk by some 4 million square kilometers illustrate what the world can do to solve a dangerous crisis if they heed warnings made by scientists. The surprising findings, published in journal Science, come after experts reported that the hole was the biggest it had ever …

Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating an incident at the Pacific Highway Crossing of the U.S.-Canadian border. Canadian border patrol agents would only confirm that an individual “failed to report at the Pacific Highway port of entry northbound.”

Scientists have developed a new tool intended to help emergency room doctors determine when fainting is a symptom of a more serious condition. Syncope, or fainting, accounts for between 1% and 3% of all emergency department visits. In most cases, it is benign, but it can sometimes be caused by serious health conditions. About 10% of patients who visit emergency …

Researchers have discovered the first-ever record of a fossil tumourous facial swelling in the jaw of a 69 million-year-old dwarf duck-billed dinosaur. “This discovery is the first ever described in the fossil record and the first to be thoroughly documented in a dwarf dinosaur,” Kate Acheson, a PhD student at the University of Southampton, said in a news release. “Telmatosaurus …

Capcom announces the addition of a free DLC map featuring the Spencer Mansion from the first Resident Evil for its multiplayer shooter, Umbrella Corps. The announcement on the company’s Unity blog reads: Attention all the battle-hardened mercenaries climbing the online ranks of Umbrella Corps: a new zombie-filled warzone is on the horizon. Players will be able to return to the …

A Vancouver hospital is targeting C. difficile infections by deploying a detection dog to sniff out the superbug that’s notorious for spreading in health facilities. Canada’s first superbug-sniffing dog is about to start his job at a local hospital. Floppy ears and a happy-go-lucky disposition may not exactly scream superbug detective. But Angus the springer-spaniel has passed his tests and …

The state of emergency in Martin County will stay in place for another week due to the algae problem. Martin County said it is extending a local state of emergency for another week due to blue-green algae. It allows the government to streamline efforts to finance projects that could remedy the algae situation that is creating headaches for thousands this …

Goodbye to more tactile keys, and hello to planes of cool and smooth glass. Today, BlackBerry confirmed that it will stop making the Classic, one of the company’s last smartphone models based around a physical keyboard for inputting text, as the company prepares for a new series of phone designs based on Android and BlackBerry 10 platforms, and more attempts …

It might have been a bit late for Canada Day celebrations, but a moose decided to take a dip in Wascana Lake Monday morning. According to Twitter users, the large animal was spotted near the artificial lake’s Willow Island around 10 a.m. CST. Apparently, it swam around in the water, with great ease, for the better part of an hour …