Riversimple unveiled The Rasa which is a two-seater vehicle and gives the equivalent of ‘250 miles to the gallon’. The car is said to have the lowest carbon emissions for any vehicle ‘well-to-wheel’ with water as its only output. This first car is a two seater ‘network electric’ car, powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. The engineering prototype has clocked …

The mother of a Toronto-area toddler says she is quite upset that it took five doctor’s visits before a quarter-sized lithium battery was found in her daughter’s esophagus. Katie Smith was running around SickKids hospital on Monday morning as if nothing was wrong, but only a few days prior the little girl had a lithium cell battery removed from her …

Organic milk and meat contain 50% more beneficial omega-3 fatty acids than non-organic produce, a study has found. Analysing data from around the world, the team led by Newcastle University, reviewed 196 papers on milk and 67 papers on meat and found clear differences between organic and conventional milk and meat, especially in terms of fatty acid composition, and the …

Newfoundland and Labrador’s Health Minister says Eastern Health made the right decision to postpone surgeries at St. John’s hospitals after finding stains on towels used in operating rooms. Eastern Health said in a news release earlier this week that elective surgeries had to be delayed due for two days due as a precaution.

At least 70 animals were seized during a massive B.C. SPCA raid Tuesday evening in Surrey. Chief enforcement officer at the SPCA, Marcie Moriarty, says 69 cats and kittens as well as 15 dogs were seized from a breeding and boarding business in Surrey.

You can now buy an Oculus Rift and a new computer system capable of running it from participating PC makers offering pre-order bundles. Best Buy, Amazon and the Microsoft Store are now selling slightly discounted bundles that include a Rift VR headset, important cables and a PC that meets the system’s minimum recommended specifications. Pricing starts at $1,499 for the …

The Colorado Department of Transportation says it will take until at least Thursday to make rock slide damaged I-70 safe to drive on through Glenwood Canyon. The rockslide occurred in Glenwood Canyon at mile marker 124.2, directly west of Hanging Lake Tunnel and eight miles east of Glenwood Springs. The Colorado Department of Transportation said it flagged traffic through the …

ISLE OF WIGHT — Here’s something you don’t see every day: A triceratops blocking traffic. The 25ft triceratops was found in High Street, Godshill, Isle of Wight, in the early hours of Saturday. A local resident posted an image of the triceratops after he stumbled upon it during his drive home from work in the early hours of 13 February.

Vaccine-like treatments could one day be used to prevent people from developing cancer, new study has found. Researchers identified and tracked rare immune system cells that could be programmed to keep cancer at bay over a period of many years. The “stem memory” T-cells would keep patrolling the body looking out for enemy tumour cells. When any are encountered, they …

Researchers have long held that early inhabitants of Easter Island disappeared as a result of ongoing warfare, but a recent analysis of artifacts from the area suggests otherwise. The new study, led by Binghamton University anthropology professor Carl Lipo and published in the latest edition of the journal Antiquity, looked at the thousands of triangle-shaped, obsidian objects known as mata’a …

Vanity, the lead singer of Vanity 6 and Prince protégé, whose real name was Denise Katrina Matthews, has died. She was 57. Denise Matthews passed away in a hospital in Fremont, California on Monday. Following a lengthy battle with drug addiction which led to near-fatal renal failure in the 1990s, Matthews abandoned her entertainment career and became an evangelical Christian.