Scientists have discovered a naturally fluorescent polka-dot tree frog in Amazon basin near Argentina. At first sight, the frog looks just another plain colored creature but it actually glows neon green when exposed to ultraviolent light. This makes it the world’s first amphibian with a remarkable ability to glow in dark. According to a new report in the Proceedings of …

Probiotics could be damaging to your gut health unless you have an atrocious diet, according to a new research. Scientists in Australia found an extra dose of ‘good bacteria’ – like Lactobacillus found in yogurt – had a transformative effect on rats with poor diets. The study out on Tuesday, conducted by the University of New South Wales, tested the …

York Regional Police say a man and a woman were rushed to hospital after a shooting in Woodbridge Tuesday afternoon. Duty Inspector Russ Bellman said police received a call about gunshots on Caster Ave., just after 4 p.m. They arrived to find two victims, a man and a woman, who had been shot.

Canadians with cystic fibrosis live 10 years longer on average than US patients, likely because of differences in the two countries’ health systems, researchers report in a study published online in the Annals of Internal Medicine. After adjusting for differences among patients’ overall health, disease severity, and clinical factors, a team of American and Canadian scientists found that cystic fibrosis …

It’s enough to make an arachnophobia sufferer wince — spiders devour up to 800 million tonnes of prey a year, making them one of the world’s most voracious predators, scientists found. Most of their victims are insects, but the largest tropical species occasionally make a meal of vertebrates such as frogs, lizards, fish and small mammals, said experts. There are …

One person has died and 28 others are being treated in hospital following a massive pileup that involved a hazardous chemical spill on Highway 401 in eastern Ontario. It happened at about 2:00 p.m. on Highway 401 westbound, in Leeds and the Thousands Township. Police say there were two separate collisions, the first one occurred just east of Highway 137 …

A British-operated cruise ship has smashed into Indonesian coral reefs in an area regarded as one of the world’s best preserved marine environments. The Caledonian Sky, which was carrying 102 passengers and 79 crew to the Philippines, ran aground in the Dampier Strait after a bird-watching trip to the island of Waigeo in West Papua. Tabloid Jubi reported that after …

Two people are lucky to be alive after their truck fell through the ice while they were attempting to drive across Lake Winnipeg Tuesday afternoon. Manitoba RCMP said the incident happened at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. They received a call that a truck had gone through the ice on the lake near Hecla, Man. Emergency crews arrived to find a man …

We-Vibe, the vibrator manufacturer, has agreed to pay $3.75 million because their sex toys were tracking users’ sexual activity without their knowledge. After being spanked in the court case, We-Vibe has agreed to pay customers up to $10,000 each after its “smart vibrator” and the connected app was found to be secretly tracking owners’ use and recording metrics such as …

Olly the Jack Russell Terrier isn’t going to win Best in Show anytime soon, but he won the internet on Monday with his enthusiastic agility-course performance. Olly competed in the Crufts Rescue Dog Agility competition in Birmingham, England, and had a little trouble. Specifically, he face-planted after mistiming a jump.

NASA Glenn engineer Dr. Peter Peterson prepares a high-power Hall thruster for ground testing in a vacuum chamber that simulates the environment in space. In the image, Peterson can be seen preparing the high-power thruster – a device that the agency says is ‘critical’ in the future of deep space exploration. Called the Hall Effect Rocket with Magnetic Shielding (HERMeS), …