A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for one of two men wanted for first-degree murder in the shooting death of a Hamilton, Ont., man at a parking lot in Toronto’s north end. Toronto police said Leonard Pinnock, 33, was shot multiple times on April 21 around 9:30 p.m. by two assailants while sitting in the driver’s seat of a parked …

People who suffer from schizophrenia have three times higher risk of death and are more likely to die younger, says new research. “Our study shows that individuals with schizophrenia are not benefitting from public health and health care interventions to the same degree as individuals without schizophrenia,” says Dr. Paul Kurdyak, senior author, CAMH and ICES Scientist and Director of …

A team of German and Swedish researchers have identified a new long-necked marine reptile species of the early Jurassic. The fossilized bones of a plesiosaur, an extinct long-necked marine reptile from the Age of Dinosaurs, have been identified by paleontologists from the Naturkunde-Museum Bielefeld in Germany and Uppsala University in Sweden. The remains are about 190 million years old and …

After eight months of living in isolation on a remote Hawaii volcano, six NASA-backed research subjects will emerge from their Mars-like habitat on Sunday and return to civilization. The experiment was specially designed to replicate conditions on Mars, and to test the social and psychological effects a real manned mission to the red planet would pose to humans. The research …

THE end of the world as we know it could be soon if conspiracy theorists are to be believed – as they fear a planet will smash into Earth. A Christian numerologist claims a verse in the Bible proves that the world will end on September 23. David Meade, who for some reason has chosen to cash in on the …

A 54-year-old Toronto real estate broker has been identified by police as the man shot and killed inside a restaurant in the city’s Entertainment District on Saturday night. Police say Giannini was gunned down shortly before 9 p.m. inside Michael’s on Simcoe, a steakhouse located in the area of Simcoe and Adelaide streets. Paramedics arrived to find the victim absent …

Researchers have identified a new species of crocodile that lived around 95 million years ago and preyed on everything from turtles to dinosaurs. Dubbed the Deltasuchus motherali, the ancient beast was discovered by a local teenager, Austin Motheral. Motheral worked with paleontoligists from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, who spent a decade excavating the bones. They found that adults …

Fisheries officials say another dead Right whale has been discovered in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. DFO says the whale was found Friday morning, this marks the eleventh confirmed North Atlantic right whale death in the Gulf of St. Lawrence this year. DFO says there will be an attempt to recover and perform a necropsy on the right whale next …

The ancestors of toothless, modern frogs and salamanders had a full array of teeth, researchers have found. The ancient frogs had large fangs and thousands of tiny hook-like structures called denticles on the roofs of their mouths that would snare prey. In study published online in a recent issue of PeerJ, an open access journal, Robert Reisz, distinguished professor of …

A team from CU Boulder’s BioServe Space Technologies discovered that some bacterial cells ‘shapeshift’ in space to survive the attacks from common medications that successfully kill them on Earth. Scientists designed an experiment to culture the common E. coli bacteria on ISS and treat it with several different concentrations of the antibiotic gentamicin sulfate, a drug that kills them on …

For over a week now, our sun has been spewing out a continuous stream of solar flares, causing NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center to issue a geomagnetic storm warning on Tuesday and Wednesday. Between September 4 and September 11, NASA observed seven flares, all classed in its strongest “X” category, with the most impressive registering at X9.3, a very significant …