Science

Observers in the Russian city of Murmansk saw a late-night fireball streak across the sky Saturday night. Russia Today reported that citizens in the northern city witnessed a “suspected meteor” explode at 2:10 AM.

Loch Ness Monster found on Apple Maps? Scotland – Has the Loch Ness Monster finally been captured on satellite imagery? Some people who have taken a look at the area in question on Apple Maps seem to think so. According to the Daily Mail, two people noticed a strange image while looking at satellite images of Loch Ness on an …

A new report from MIT and Harvard University describes the development of a switchable material that could harness the power of the sun, even when the sun is not shining. Team from MIT and Harvard have found a solution to this. They successfully created molecules known as photoswitches that absorb energy and switch from one form to another, these switches …

Scientists have figured out that modern sharks are sleeker than what their ancestors were 325 million years ago. They studied an extremely well preserved fossil of a shark discovered by professors Royal Mapes and Gene Mapes. The fossil was later given to the American Museum of Natural History by Ohio University. After having a closer look at the fossil, the …

NASA SCIENTISTS SAY they have discovered what could be the birth of a new moon in the rings of Saturn. A spacecraft orbiting the planet spotted a small, icy object being formed within the rings which would be Saturn’s 63rd moon if confirmed.

NASA made a big discovery Thursday. Its Kepler Space Telescope discovered a planet, roughly the same size as earth, about 500 light years away from us. They’re not sure what the mass and composition of the planet are. But they know it’s in the “habitable zone,” an area near a star, where life “could” possibly exist.

Lake Wales, Florida – We have had a bunch of readers contact us here at Canada Journal wanting to know what is the ring around the sun today. Well it’s similar to the affect we saw on June 4, 2012 which we wrote about then. It’s called a 22 degree halo.

The B.C. government lacks oversight of an environmental regulation meant to protect the areas that border rivers, lakes and streams, says the provincial ombudsman. Kim Carter’s latest report looks at the Riparian Areas Regulation, which applies to 15 regional districts in populated areas from Vancouver Island to the Interior.

An analysis of temperature data since 1500 all but rules out the possibility that global warming in the industrial era is just a natural fluctuation in the earth’s climate, according to a new study by McGill University physics professor Shaun Lovejoy. The study, published online April 6 in the journal Climate Dynamics, represents a new approach to the question of …

Parts of the world saw a rare celestial event, the lunar eclipse, on Tuesday when the Earth’s shadow fell across the moon, turning it orange. The lunar eclipse unfolded over three hours beginning at about 2 a.m. EDT, when the moon began moving into Earth’s shadow. A little more than an hour later, the moon could be seen eclipsed and …

Early Tuesday morning, the moon will be eclipsed by Earth’s shadow. This eclipse is the first in a series called a lunar tetrad. A tetrad is four successive total lunar eclipses, with no partial lunar eclipses in between, each of which is separated from the other by six lunar months (six full moons). This week’s total lunar eclipse will be …