Science

Stone age artifacts discovered at a site in Armenia have shown how innovative humans were in terms of technology 325,000 years ago, according to a new study.

A young Siberian Tiger shipped from The Calgary Zoo to Winnipeg earlier this year, has killed another tiger at the Assiniboine Park Zoo.

Staff with the Vancouver Aquarium’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre released seven rescued seal pups into Burrard Inlet Wednesday from Cates Park in North Vancouver.

Data from three of NASA’s space telescopes, Hubble, Spitzer and Kepler, have discovered clear skies and water vapour on a gaseous exoplanet that is about the size of Neptune, making it the smallest planet from which molecules of any kind have been detected.

Chimpanzees who spend time with humans when they are young have issues adjusting to live with their peers later in life. Those who were removed from their mothers early in life and raised by humans as pets or performers are likely to show behavioural deficiencies as adults, scientists say.

A new galactic dust map, compiled using data gathered from the European Space Agency’s Planck Mission, has cast further doubt over what was once hailed as one of the biggest scientific claims of the century, according to media reports.

One of the few species of fish capable of surviving a life in the frigid waters of Antarctica, the Notothenioids, have been found to have ice in their veins all year round. It has long been known that the fish produces proteins which act as a kind of natural anti-freeze, preventing ice crystals from growing beyond a certain size.

A new partnership between governments, businesses and indigenous leaders aiming to reduce forest loss was announced at today’s UN Climate Summit in New York City. The “New York Declaration on Forests” aims to cut the rate of forest loss in half by 2020 and end deforestation by 2030.

A team of archeologists at the University of Victoria may be on the verge of discovering signs of ancient human life at the bottom of the ocean.

Scientists from the University of Utah have created a new material which could potentially lead to quantum computers capable of far faster processing than modern machines. According to their research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the new material acts as both a conductor and an insulator, and is made of a silicon semiconductor …

For the first time, researchers have discovered how to produce ultra-thin nano-threads that exhibit extraordinary properties, including strength and stiffness greater than the strongest nano-tubes and polymers available today.