The RCMP have charged a Halifax woman with impaired driving after she was stopped speeding through a Chester school zone.

The Canada Science and Technology museum is closed indefinitely due to mould. The museum says “unacceptable levels of airborne mould” were detected in the south wall of the museum during regular maintenance. The museum had closed earlier this month for annual maintenance.

After a seven-year-long investigation, scientists at the National Audubon Society issued a grim report Monday finding that more than half of the 650 or so bird species in North America may be threatened by global warming. Many species, including the bald eagle and piping plover, are likely to become extinct if rising global temperatures are not abated.

Soldiers in the future could be equipped with “Soft Exosuits” under their combat gear, making it easier to walk long distances and carry heavy loads, thanks to robotic research going on at Harvard University and grant money from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Electrons, like almost everything in life, are lazy. It has long been known that when traveling through conductive material, electrons always take the easiest route – that is, the path of least resistance. However, just like with people, the right kind of encouragement can make electrons take the harder road. Now, experts from MIT have discerned that graphene might be …

A woman is under arrest after the remains of three infants were found in a Blackstone home on Thursday. The discovery was made at 23 St. Paul Street during a child endangerment investigation.

The rate of high-dose opioid prescribing in Canada has shot up dramatically in the past six years despite guidelines advising against it, suggesting that the country’s prescription drug problem is still out of control.

A court order has been issued to stop a Seattle man from infecting people with HIV. According to King County court documents a man identifed only as “AO” has infected at least eight people with the virus.

The central mystery of quantum mechanics is that small chunks of matter sometimes seem to behave like particles, sometimes like waves. For most of the past century, the prevailing explanation of this conundrum has been what’s called the “Copenhagen interpretation” — which holds that, in some sense, a single particle really is a wave, smeared out across the universe, that …

A woman in China has stunned doctors after a trip to the emergency room for dizziness and nausea revealed that a key part of her brain was missing. It appears the woman was born without a cerebellum, a small but major part of the brain that controls such things as movement and balance.

Arsh Shah Dilbagi, a 16-year-old student of DAV Public School, Panipat, has been selected as one of the 15 Google Science Fair 2014 finalists. Dilbagi has developed an AAC device for people suffering from developmental disabilities like Parkinson’s disease, Down syndrome, ALS etc.