Science

The analysis of a long-forgotten femur bone has revealed just how large a predatory dinosaur called an abelisaur might have gotten, according to a new study in the journal PeerJ. Alessandro Chiarenza, a PhD student from Imperial College London, last year stumbled across a fossilised femur bone, left forgotten in a drawer, during his visit to the Museum of Geology …

A new image taken recently by the Hubble Space Telescope captured a millennia-old blue “blue bubble” in the Carina constellation. An image recently captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and released by NASA in conjunction with the European Space Agency shows a star encircled by a massive blue collection of the building blocks of space itself.

Monarch butterfly numbers rebound, but still well below 20 years ago. Despite reaching dangerously low numbers in the past, monarch butterfly populations are on their way to recovery as more and more of the orange and black insects have been spotted in recent months.

An international team of scientists led by Prof. Nicolau, the Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at McGill, have designed and built a model biological supercomputer powered by adenosine triphosphate, or ATP — a biochemical sometimes called a “molecular unit of currency” because it enables the transfer of energy inside cells. “We’ve managed to create a very complex network in …

A polar bear cub born at Toronto Zoo on Remembrance Day last year has been given a name that’s in keeping with her date of birth. The three month old female cub has now officially been called Juno. It was also announced that Juno will be given honourary induction into the armed forces and used as a mascot of sorts.

A large meteor from space crashed into the Atlantic earlier this month – but it was barely noticed. The meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere on Feb. 6. The blast was the largest to hit Earth since Chelyabinsk in 2013, with force the equivalent of detonating 13,000 tons of TNT, according to Slate. To put that in perspective, the Hiroshima bomb had …

For the first time a team of scientists has tracked down the location of a fast radio burst (FRB) in an elliptical galaxy — a huge football-shaped mass of stars., confirming that these short but spectacular flashes of radio waves originated in the distant universe. The breakthrough, published in the journal Nature, was made using CSIRO radio telescopes in eastern …

A team of archaeologists has discovered a collection of textiles of diverse dye colors and designs about 3,000 years old in an Edomite tin mine in Israel. Textiles this old are rare because they are made of organic materials and usually disintegrate long before modern times. A Timna excavation team from Tel Aviv University led by Dr. Erez Ben-Yosef has …

Rising global temperatures combined with an especially powerful El Niño are causing one of the biggest coral reef die-off events ever recorded. The researchers, who are monitoring and forecasting offsite linkthe loss of corals from disease and heat stress due to record ocean temperatures, report that the global coral bleaching event that started in 2014 could extend well into 2017. …

Vancouver Aquarium scientists are investigating after the body of a rare dolphin washed up on the shores of Haida Gwaii over the weekend. A pair of scientists from the Vancouver Aquarium and the B.C. Cetacean Sightings Network were on the island and helped drag the 3.3-metres long animal away from shore.

Think your memes, videos and drawings are out of this world? Now you have the chance to make it literally so, with NASA preparing to send artistic expressions to the asteroid Bennu aboard the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Scheduled to launch in September, the space agency’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will journey to Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, …