Science

Montana wants 145 bison that originated in Yellowstone National Park given away to six organisations in five states, including New York’s Bronx Zoo, to further the conservation of America’s last pure-bred wild buffalo.

A 23-year-old man has lost one arm and one hand after he was attacked by a shark while surfing in Western Australia.

Toronto will become the center of the universe this week as the city hosts the 65th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) 2014. Taking place from September 29th to October 3rd, the annual international convention will bring space to Canada.

Ten years ago this week, Mount St. Helens started shooting steam and ash in the air. The eruption wasn’t as big as the 1980 blast, but over three years it built a second lava dome in the crater that rose to more than 1,000 feet.

New research, published in Nature, theorizes that just one single gene is responsible for some Monarch butterfly populations becoming migratory, while others choose to stay put. It is also thought that the species did not originate in Central or South America, but in North America, specifically the American Southwest or Northern Mexico areas, around 2 million years ago.

Researchers have discovered a new form of non-genetic inheritance, showing for the first time that offspring can resemble a mother’s previous sexual partner – in flies at least.

Aral Sea – Satellite images, released last week by NASA, reveal how a large section of the Aral Sea, a lake lying between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south, has dried out.

A 600-year-old canoe, pulled from a sand dune on New Zealand’s South Island, may help scientists further understand the seafaring technologies of the Polynesian peoples. The canoe, which was discovered two years ago near the Anaweka estuary, is a rare find, as due to their wooden construction many such craft rapidly decay, and are lost to the ages.

Marine Harvest Canada (MHC) is estimating a loss of up to 280,000 fish of an average weight of 4.1 kilograms due to a harmful plankton bloom at Marsh Bay near Port Hardy, BC. The harmful algae, Heterosigma akashiwo, are common plankton known to kill salmon.

With the help of lasers, researchers have shown that the movement of tiny “sea monkeys” can actually affect water currents on an oceanwide scale. A study conducted by researchers Monica Wilhelmus and John Dabiri at the California Institute of Technology have shown that the migration patterns of Artemia salina—more popularly known as brine shrimp or “sea monkeys”—may have an effect …

A delegation of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and a number of specialized Russian agencies failed to attend the 65th International Astronautical Congress in Toronto as many of their members had been denied Canadian visas, a source in the Russian space industry told Interfax-AVN on Tuesday.