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Technology & Science It’s that time of the year again, when the night sky lights up with meteors as part of the Geminid meteor shower. This composite photo of 43 exposures shows the 2017 Geminid meteors streaking from the radiant point in Gemini taken from Quailway Cottage in southeast Arizona, …

Technology & Science·Video Greta Thunberg arrived in the Spanish capital on Friday to join thousands of other young people in a march to demand world leaders take real action against climate change. At a climate summit in Madrid, 16-year-old Greta Thunberg again appealed for awareness, and immediate action on climate …

Technology & Science On Dec. 6, 1989, a gunman fatally shot 14 young women studying to be engineers at Montreal's École Polytechnique. Thirty years later, other women of that generation have made their mark on engineering and the world, from designing aircraft to earthquake-proofing buildings. Mary Wells, Dean of Engineering …

Technology & Science Many communities along Lake Erie are dealing with record-high water levels and significant erosion of the shoreline, and it's forcing some residents to consider abandoning their properties. Waves crash into homes along a stretch of the Lake Erie shoreline facing erosion0:41 Sue O'Brien gets anxious — "shaky," …

Business·Analysis Critics have warned the economic disruption caused by fighting climate change will lead to massive unemployment, but something different seems to be happening. Despite worries that reducing carbon would be a job killer, Canadian employers say hundreds of thousands of jobs remain unfilled.(Don Pittis/CBC) "Scrap your job-killing carbon tax …

Entertainment YouTube Rewind, the video platform's year-in-review, arrived in a brand-new format on Thursday after a torrent of negative reviews in 2018. Youtube Rewind 2019, the site's year-in-review post, arrived Thursday in a new format. (Youtube) YouTube Rewind, the video platform's year-in-review, arrived in a brand-new format on Thursday after …

World·New Ride-hailing firm Uber Technologies Inc. on Thursday said it had received more than 3,000 reports of sexual assault, including rape, related to its trips in the United States in 2018, at a time when it operated roughly 1.3 billion rides. An Uber pick-up location is pictured in San Diego …

Technology & Science The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will use restrictions, rather than a ban, to protect unintended poisoning of wildlife, pets and people by sodium cyanide bombs used by farmers and trappers to kill predators. A Mexican gray wolf is pictured in this file photo. In an …

Technology & Science·What on Earth? In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look under the hood of hydrogen-powered vehicles and the challenges of de-carbonizing the airline industry. (Sködt McNalty/CBC) Hello, people! This is our weekly newsletter on all things environmental, where we highlight trends and solutions that are …

The Current Scientists say that coral reefs have a distinct sound — and it's quite different if the reefs are healthy, or dying. But by playing the sound of a healthy reef underwater, Tim Gordon says at-risk reefs can be saved. Marine biologist Tim Gordon deploys an underwater loudspeaker on …