Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have managed to escape with their lives after a ‘gorilla’ went bananas inside the orbiting laboratory – or so it would seem. In a video posted by his brother on Twitter on Monday, Kelly is shown wearing the gorilla suit and chasing down another astronaut, who quickly flees from the unexpected passenger.

Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey is back in hospital for the third time since contracting the disease in Sierra Leone. Cafferkey was originally infected while working in Sierra Leone in December 2014 and spent almost a month in an isolation unit at the Royal Free Hospital in London. She was released after making a recovery but fell ill again in October …

The Samsung Galaxy S7 and bigger Galaxy S7 are finally here and as expected, potential buyers are extremely excited about the early release date. Canadian carriers today opened up pre-orders for the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge. The two flagship devices will be available on March 11, and will start at $399.99 and $499.99, respectively, when bought on contract.

Big carnivores are scary, both to humans and the animals they prey upon. But as a new study demonstrates, the fear that these predators instill among their prey can have a positive influence on ecological health and biodiversity, a finding with important implications for conservation. These findings from Western’s Liana Zanette and PhD student Justin Suraci, in collaboration with Simon …

Payments giant MasterCard has said it plans to accept selfies and fingerprints as an alternative to passwords and codes to accept online payments. To use selfie authentication, customers will need to download a Mastercard app that allows them to take a photo each time they make an online purchase. Their face will be scanned to prove they are making a …

Europeans need to eat less beef and consume less dairy products in order to reach the EU’s climate goals, according to a new study by Swedish researchers. “Reductions, by 50 percent or more, in ruminant meat (beef and mutton) consumption are, most likely, unavoidable if the EU targets are to be met,” according to the findings published in the Food …

The reaction to Apple refusing to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino shooters appears to have been overwhelmingly supportive, but a new poll from Pew Research Center shows that not all Americans are siding with Apple. Fifty-one percent of the 1,002 adults surveyed by Pew between Feb. 18 and 21 said Apple should unlock the phone. Thity-eight …

Air Pollution Causes Obesity? A study published in the Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology found that rats who breathed polluted Beijing air gained weight after just three weeks of exposure. They also experienced cardio-respiratory dysfunctions, and decreased metabolic function. After only 19 days, the lungs and livers of pregnant rats exposed to the polluted air …

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West have finally revealed the first picture of son Saint West. Nevertheless, the Internet is making noise about cuteness and what the boy really looks like and … whatever. It’s a baby. That’s all he can look like at this point, unless he has a horn growing out of his face.

A study ten years in the making found that sea levels are rising at the fastest rate in the last 2,800 years. The scientists say that greenhouse gas emissions that build up in the atmosphere and heat the planet, melting glaciers and ice sheets, are to blame for this sharp rise. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the …

The vast majority of Canadians, in all provinces, believe climate change is real, according to a new research. Scientists from the University of Montreal, University of California Santa Barbara, Utah State University and Yale University have just released a new interactive tool to visualize, with unprecedented detail, the geographic distribution of climate opinions across Canada. It allows users to download …