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Though wildfire season in Alberta is officially over, the battle is far from done. Fire crews continue to keep watch for fire that is burning underground and could flare up again in the spring.  Fires burning in organic matter called peat can sometimes persist for months on end. Though wildfire …

Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas 1968 flight that circled the moon 10 times and paved the way for the lunar landing the next year, has died. He was 95.  Apollo 8 mission provided the iconic ‘Earthrise’ photo. Astronaut Frank Borman, who commanded Apollo 8’s historic Christmas …

Dark matter and dark energy make up roughly 95 per cent of our universe but can’t be seen. In order to reveal their influence, over its six-year mission, this new space telescope will observe the shapes, distances and motions of billions of galaxies out to 10 billion light-years and create …

Team of forensic scientists in Milan, Italy, discovered traces of cannabis in the remains of two skeletons from the 17th century.  Scientists examined 9 femoral bone samples from people who lived in 1600s Milan. People have been consuming weed for a very long time. Ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote about …

Darlene Cardinal slammed her brakes in order to stop herself from crashing into a wild muskox last month. It was a rare event for someone who lives in Fort Chipewyan, Alta.  ‘Everybody wanted to see the muskox. It’s an exciting thing.’ Darlene Cardinal slammed her brakes in order to stop …

Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang.  Black hole is 13.2 billion years old and 10 times the size of Milky Way’s black hole. Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, a cosmic beast formed …

More than 3,000 tiny beetles have been shipped across the country from their native British Columbia to try to control an invasive species killing Nova Scotia’s hemlock trees.  3,600 beetles have been sent to N.S. to prey on hemlock-destroying invasive species. When a tiny black beetle crawled out of a …

With recent developments in artificial intelligence, fears of rogue systems may seem a fresh concern. But the worries date back millennia, around long before Arnold Schwarzenegger went into the past to hunt Sarah Connor in The Terminator. Stories such as Pandora, Frankenstein and the golem of Prague highlight the fear …

It’s the stuff of science fiction: Blasting off to the moon or an asteroid, drilling it, mining its resources and bringing some or all back to Earth. But, as we have our sights set on returning to the moon, that fiction is getting closer to becoming a reality. ‘This is …

Yoshua Bengio, who helped make the AI revolution possible, won Canada’s most prestigious science prize. He speaks to Bob McDonald about why he’s both proud and frightened of the potential of the field he helped create. Yoshua Bengio recognized for ‘remarkable discoveries and breakthroughs’ in artificial intelligence. Canada’s most prestigious …