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A space capsule that grabbed fragments from the asteroid Bennu arrived back on Earth Sunday, touching down in Utah after a mission that began seven years ago. Canada will get some of the celestial bounty from Bennu.  Canada will get some of the celestial bounty from Bennu. A space capsule …

Advancing Canada Water Assets (ACWA), a joint initiative between the City of Calgary and the University of Calgary, is applying the same techniques it used to monitor COVID-19 case numbers to track illicit drugs in the province’s wastewater.  The technique first gained traction during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Calgary research …

A spacecraft that has travelled more than 950 million kilometres is dropping off a care package on Sunday: samples from an asteroid that lies more than 100 million kilometres from Earth. Canada played crucial role in OSIRIS-REx mission that collected asteroid fragments. A spacecraft that has travelled more than 950 …

Researchers at the University of British Columbia are pairing Japanese social robots with seniors to see how they interact and examine the potential benefits the robots, which can recognize voices and faces, could bring to seniors seeking some companionship.  ‘Mango’ and ‘Kiwi’ can recognize human voices and faces, and even …

From chatbots to avatars, some people are using AI to recreate interactions with their deceased loved ones — and help them grieve. AI tech helped Chris Zuger ‘remember that I did love the man,’ he says of his late father. Chris Zuger struggled to cope with his father’s sudden death …

New findings indicate how exercise helps people living with long COVID walk farther and faster. Such patients commonly report that they have a hard time handling long or strenuous walks, which in turn hampers their quality of life.  Exercise shown to help those with fatigue, shortness of breath walk farther …

The Marine Institute and OceanGate signed a partnership in early 2023, but it remains unclear if the Memorial University campus knew the ill-fated Titan submersible was unregulated, unclassed and uncertified.  Relationship gave credibility to company’s mission, says industry expert. One of Canada’s leading ocean research institutions says its partnership with …

A new study says a change in the algae growing in Great Slave Lake is marking a “new ecological regime” in North America’s deepest lake. It’ll “definitely” have an effect throughout the food web, says one of the study’s authors, but we don’t know exactly what that’ll be yet. When …

The Tablelands in Gros Morne National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the most unique landscapes in the world — and its orange peridotite rocks could hold the secret to finding life on Mars.  Despite high pH levels, Penny Morrill and her team found bacteria in the …

A biologist at Cape Breton University is hoping a piece of technology used to keep people safe in the pandemic can help protect Nova Scotia’s oysters against the effects of warming waters.  Spread of parasite becoming ‘more of a concern’ as waters warm, Rod Beresford says. A biologist at Cape …