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- It shouldn't be taboo to criticize parents for having too many kids
- Fruit flies can taste calcium: Does that mean humans can?
- Venezuela, Russia aim to dodge sanctions with cryptocurrency, but experts aren't buying it
- France's attempt to outlaw fake news raises controversy
- Canadian charged with unleashing 'spambot' army on Twitch
- Gene editing could be the future, but doctors think humans might be immune to it
- 'Rainbow dinosaur' had iridescent feathers like a hummingbird
- RCMP link Ontario man to LeakedSource.com, home of 3 billion hacked accounts
- Don't blame the rats! Human fleas and lice likely spread Black Death
- Canadian study finds seagulls eating drywall, metal among other garbage
- Welcome to the neighbourhood. Have you read the terms of service?
- This N.J. town is banning out-of-town drivers who use apps like Waze and Google Maps
- Sick of traffic jams? Stop tailgating
- Bitcoin prices drop as South Korea minister indicates ban still possible
- No increase in earthquakes during full or new moons, study suggests
- Warming climate could affect life in Arctic Ocean, says new study
- Genetic pot-pourri: Why cannabis strains don't all live up to their billing
- Lobsters 'very likely' feel pain when boiled alive, researcher says
- If you fish for these invasive crabs, you can't sell them - you need to give them away free
- Why your birth year may increase your risk of dying during a flu pandemic
- YouTube pulls ads from more channels over offensive content
- Wildlife rescuers say Ontario ministry is bullying them, not helping
- World's biggest underwater cave found in Mexico
- Meteor lights up sky over Windsor-Essex, triggers minor 'earthquake' in Michigan
- Hidden black hole caught flinging star back and forth in distant cluster
- In world first, drone rescues 2 swimmers off Australian beach
- Scientists calculate proteins in a single cell and find 42 million
- Billion-dollar nitrogen reduction efforts may have minimal impact on toxic algae blooms: study
- Facebook's newsfeed changes mean political parties need to adapt — or pay up
- Hawaii's false alarm should prompt talk about what to do if there's a nuclear attack: expert
- Protest planned in Ottawa to oppose nuclear licence renewal for Chalk River nuclear labs
- How to kill a lobster before you cook it
- 2017 was 2nd-warmest across the globe since 1880, NASA says
- After #MeToo, phone app allows you to legally consent to sex
- Why some fracking wells are prone to triggering earthquakes
- NASA tests nuclear power system for future astronauts on Mars
- Apple to release software update to resolve iPhone slowdown: CEO Tim Cook
- U.S. border guards can search your phone: here are some details on how
- Huawei's latest attempt to enter U.S. worries lawmakers — but Canada doesn't share its concern
- What really happens to old clothes dropped in those in-store recycling bins
- Melted nuclear fuel seen inside second Fukushima reactor
- Amazon would have been welcome, say Canadian tech sector CEOs whose cities were snubbed
- Filmmaker aboard icebreaker documents aborted mission to study Arctic climate change
- With a deep tech talent pool, Toronto could hit Amazon's 'sweet spot' with bid for new HQ
- Insurers say Canadian weather getting weirder
- How the internet broke the emergency response system
- Amazon's 1st high-tech grocery store opens to the public
- Meteorite hunters find first fragments of Michigan meteor
- Rocket launched from New Zealand successfully deploys satellites
- 'Terrifying': How a single line of computer code put thousands of innocent Turks in jail
- How a Toronto researcher is giving a 15-year-old his voice back with the blink of an eye
- Plastic debate bags the question: what to do with all our junk?
- Liberals spending $50M to help students K-12 code
- Social media good for democracy? Facebook admits it can't make that guarantee
- Tesla to install Atlantic Canada 'supercharger' stations for its vehicles
- More than 500 fossils of new ancient worm species found in B.C.
- Apple CEO Tim Cook visits Canada for the first time
- Astronauts go spacewalking to give new hand to Canadarm2
- Media mogul Rupert Murdoch says Facebook should pay for news
- Elon Musk to get no salary unless Tesla hits milestones
- Why B.C. and Alaska avoided a massive tsunami
- Bell Canada alerts customers after data breach
- Calgary man first to be fined for flying drone in Banff National Park
- Cannabis growers get creative to ease power demands of pot
- Cannabis company to use fish waste to grow marijuana in former pulp mill
- Someone, somewhere, thinks you'll like this new kind of online store enough to buy
- SpaceX successfully test fires engines on big new rocket
- Monkey clones created with Dolly-the-sheep technique
- U.S. safety board investigating Tesla freeway crash
- If you're going to blame a cyberattack on North Korea, you better show your work
- No more Mr. Anonymous for sperm donors
- How Canadian scientists are turning to the Arctic in the hope of finding life on Mars
- Scientists to reveal time of Doomsday Clock this morning
- Swiss mummy identified as ancestor of British Foreign Secretary
- Alberta computer scientist claims clues to deciphering mysterious Voynich manuscript
- Oldest modern human fossil outside Africa found in Israeli cave
- Plastic pollution causes deadly flesh-eating diseases in corals
- Cape Town water crisis prompts rationing to prevent Day Zero tap shutoff
- Netherlands alerted U.S. to Russian hack of State Department, Dutch media claim
- Canada's privacy commissioner proposes right to change inaccurate search engine results
- How to watch the 'blue moon' lunar eclipse
- Monkeys and kittens and horses, oh my! A look at cloned mammals throughout history
- There's nothing 'simple' about a blood test for cancer
- SheHacks: A 36-hour hackathon for women
- Mystery why Manitoba town is running low on water
- Anxiety can make you bad at math
- DNA barcoding reveals widespread seafood fraud in Metro Vancouver
- Fitness devices may reveal sensitive info about soldiers' locations
- Spacewalk cancelled after Canadarm2 fixed with software patch
- Amateur astronomer in B.C. may have discovered long-lost NASA satellite
- Long-lost chunk of Canada found in Australia
- Volkswagen faces new twist in emissions scandal as allegations of animal testing emerge
- Telecoms, CBC and others urge CRTC to establish agency to help locate piracy websites
- Today's kids will need right to remove online posts about them
- Could a tweet start a war? How smartphones and social media are creating new battlegrounds
- Scientists record Orca mimicking 'hello' and other human words
- U.S. agencies reported to be probing Apple over slowing iPhones
- Young tourist helps Edmonton researchers in discovery of rare Colombian fish fossil
- Super blue blood moon puts on a show around the world
- If Canadian spies found a flaw in the iPhone, would they tell Apple? Make the policy public, critics say
- Rare Brown Booby recovering in Victoria
- Field Museum scientists in Chicago studying Michigan meteor
- Facebook's user engagement dips on news feed tweaks
- SpaceX rocket dumped in ocean 'amazingly' survives
- Canadian augmented and virtual reality industry lacks homegrown investors
- Elon Musk sells out of his 20,000 flame-throwers
- Type 2 diabetes in cats a near purr-fect match to human version
- Is Facebook bad for democracy?
- B.C. city to create new beaver management plan after baby beaver drowns during relocation
- Robot makes coffee at new cafe in Tokyo
- Driver arrested after truck damages Nazca lines World Heritage Site
- Mummies of early Chinese immigrants unearthed in Peru
- Mysterious 'pants' arch baffles internet, geologists and Nunavut tourism office
- Egypt says 4,400-year-old tomb discovered outside Cairo
- Fitness apps are now one more reason to revisit your smartphone's privacy settings
- U.K. food retailer vows to be the world's first to go plastic-free
- Brains of woodpeckers contain protein found in humans with brain damage
- Bird watchers are welcome in newly protected Quebec wetlands
- Huge Mayan city with pyramids found hidden under jungle
- Human rights are at stake in debate around private security cameras, expert says
- Why doesn't Canada have a rocket program?
- 4 things to watch for in Canada's new Fisheries Act
- Leading investigator of ivory, rhino-horn trade killed in Kenya
- Rare dinosaur discovery made in Egypt
- Everything you need to know about the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch
- Liberals move to protect more fish by overhauling Harper-era reforms
- Uber says hackers behind data breach were in Canada, Florida
- In San Diego, a lamppost can tell you where to park
- Trudeau to meet with Amazon, eBay CEOs on 4-day U.S. trip
- Beware the giant virus cloud: dust storms, ocean spray spread microbes worldwide
- Ottawa earmarks cash to protect children from online sexual exploitation
- Russian hackers came close to stealing secret U.S. defence technology
- This is what people in Britain looked like 10,000 years ago
- SpaceX's 'Starman' misses Mars orbit, heads to asteroid belt
- McKenna to announce new environmental assessment process for resources projects today
- Kingston, Ont., signs 'Smart City' agreement with Bell
- Smelly mass of diapers, oil and baby wipes makes it to the Museum of London
- Twitter turns first profit ever, but problems remain
- Deep-sea fish nursery uses heat from ocean vents to incubate eggs
- Meet the BFR, SpaceX's next big rocket
- This rare asteroid will zip by Earth on Friday
- Step inside Hamilton's massive cryptocurrency mining lab
- Human eggs successfully grown in the lab
- Dog bites: It may not be them, it could be you
- With the Olympics underway, scientists ask whether the human body can be pushed any further
- Valentine's Day warning from scientists says stop sexting
- Female mutant crayfish clones have landed, but government recommends you not buy one
- 'A tiny Band-Aid on a gaping wound': Why crowdfunding can't fill gaps in U.S. health care
- Canada to launch new border security app that could go global
- Gender gap shows high-tech sector still stuck in the past — and it could prove costly
- Calling all birdwatchers: Rare snowy owl 'irruption' grips Toronto
- Watch a newborn octopus hatch from its egg
- More than 500 scientists demand improved pollution laws in Canada
- Flight of the hummingbird: How size and wing shape forge fantastic flyers
- Trump wants business to take over space station from NASA by 2025
- Unilever threatens to pull ads from social media companies due to 'toxic' children's content
- Maven, General Motors' car-sharing app, launches in Toronto
- Iceland's bitcoin miners will guzzle more energy than its homes in 2018
- U.S. woman becomes 1st person to have eye worms previously seen only in cattle
- All-female fish species shows sex is overrated
- Watch robot skiers race down the slopes in South Korea
- Statistics Canada looking down the drain to determine levels of pot consumption
- Cyberspy agency defends proposed new powers to go on the offensive
- Leaping elk crashes low-flying research helicopter
- Leatherback turtle, not overturned boat, found washed up in Cape Breton
- Pulsating aurora spotted in Canada helps explain northern lights' origin
- Google's Chrome browser starts blocking 'disruptive' ads
- Feds to unveil 'supercluster' winners of $950 million for innovation
- Borneo's orangutans at risk of extinction after population decreases by 148,500 in 16 years
- Enhancing athletic performance on a genetic level
- Toxic metals from plastic left on the beach are leaching into the ocean's ecosystems: B.C. study
- Starman and his Tesla could crash into Earth or Venus ... eventually
- Neptune's mysterious storm shrinking out of existence
- B.C. man gets 'once-in-a-lifetime' job managing world's largest telescope in Chile
- Whale beached for 3 days on Mexico's northwest coast is back in the Pacific Ocean
- 'It is very troubling': microplastics, other pollutants to be focus of studies funded by Ottawa
- How vampire bats survive on an 'extreme' diet of just blood
- It may not be finished, but the Canadian High Arctic Research Station is ahead of schedule
- Ancient human, giant sloth remains found in world's biggest flooded cave
- Ottawa family finds 1930s homemade sled at museum
- Hackers could use AI to automate attacks, crash cars and drones
- Parking spots of the future being tested in Stratford, Ont.
- Pacemakers, defibrillators are potentially hackable
- More than half of federal government scientists still feel muzzled, poll finds
- Scott Pruitt's 1st-class travel as EPA head to be scrutinized
- Social media may be pushing more millennials to turn to cosmetic procedures, clinics say
- Invasive bloody red shrimp found in Lake Superior
- SpaceX launches PAZ satellite LIVE
- Twitter bars tactics used by 'bots' to spread false stories
- SpaceX launches experimental Starlink internet satellites
- Neanderthals, not humans, created these cave paintings in Spain
- 'Tiny trash' a big problem for Canada's shorelines
- How many new drugs rely on government-funded science? All of them
- Artificial intelligence shows unprecedented detail in global fishing activities
- Why A.I. companies are paying random strangers to take videos of themselves doing mundane tasks
- 'Even a 1-cm piece has the kinetic energy of an exploding grenade': Increasing man-made space debris a concern
- International forensics lab unlocks 28-year-old Yellowknife missing person case
- Overwatch backers push pro video games as big-league eSports spectacle
- B.C. girl hopes DNA drive will help her find birth parents in China
- Scientists haven't seen any North Atlantic right whale calves in usual areas
- Report suggests growing gap between greenhouse gas projections and promises
- Ancient Egyptian necropolis holds buried treasures
- How blockchain, the technology behind bitcoin, could change your life
- Family blame iPhone for sparking fire that destroyed Langley farmhouse, demand $600K from Apple
- Hundreds of 'creepy' Instagram accounts target youth to grow online audience
- Optimistic cows more likely to take a chance, UBC researchers find
- Astronauts, cosmonaut touch down on Earth after months at Space Station
- North Pole thaws mid-winter as temperatures 'smash' records in the Arctic
- German court rules cities can ban diesel cars
- Astronomers believe they've found signs of earliest stars in universe
- Federal budget doles out cash for science
- Twice as nice: Barbra Streisand cloned her beloved dog and has 2 new pups
- Climbers on Alaska peak may need to pack out more of their poop
- Ancient human footprints discovered by B.C. family on vacation in South Africa
- Mobile phone network on the Moon planned for 2018
- Rhino Tinder called 'the most eligible bachelor in the world' is seriously ill
- Apple hauled before parliamentary committee to explain battery scandal
- Here's a look at Russia's 'invulnerable' weapons
- B.C. researcher's discovery brings him a step closer to dream of clean water worldwide
- Ontario PC leadership race opens up new front in national climate debate
- Bank of England chief Mark Carney slams cryptocurrencies; urges action
- Tattoos found on ancient Egyptian mummies are oldest of their kind
- Why selling off the International Space Station would be a tricky mission for the U.S.
- How a camera lost and a camera found underwater forged a connection
- Pirates are selling cheap, live TV and some Canadians are signing up
- Invasive python devours deer bigger than itself in Florida
- Inuvik satellite dish installations remain unused, still waiting for final federal approval
- N.W.T. resident spots 'awe-inspiring' landslide that created a new lake
- Wreck of WW II aircraft carrier USS Lexington found
- Fewer monarch butterflies made it to Mexico again this year
- Canada will meet climate targets despite emissions gap: environment minister
- Trudeau discusses innovation with Bill Nye the science guy LIVE
- Permafrost contains world's largest deposit of mercury, study suggests
- BlackBerry files patent infringement suit against Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp
- Scientist Bill Nye prods Trudeau to explain rationale behind Kinder Morgan
- Saskatoon artist's futuristic tunes made with old-school Game Boy
- World's oldest known message in a bottle found near Perth, Australia
- Putin was 'good' and Obama was 'bad': Former Russian trolls reveal online work to create 'fake news'
- The Arctic just had its warmest winter on record
- Decades after vowing to eradicate potholes, Ottawa prof's long road to recognition nears end
- Move over blueberries — wild B.C. shrub produces contender for world's healthiest berry
- Scientists plan simulated oil spills in northwestern Ontario
- Thawing permafrost causes 'browning' of lakes, upsetting aquatic ecosystems, study says
- Who spreads fake news? On Twitter, humans are more likely culprits than bots, new study suggests
- Women encouraged to pursue STEM careers, but many not staying
- They thought they were downloading Skype. Instead they got spyware
- The idea of robot butlers fuels our fantasies — and our fears
- Former Halifax child prodigy grows up to design self-folding origami robots
- Facebook signs deal with Warner to use its music
- Bones found in 1940 likely Amelia Earhart's, study says
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