Today's Headlines


Thursday September 02, 2010
  • In his new book, physicist Stephen Hawking has changed his previous position to say that God is not necessary for the creation of the universe. Read article
  • Comparison of conventional and organic strawberry farms finds that organic farms produce better berries and create healthier soil with greater biological diversity.. Read article
  • Hurricane Earl has changed course slightly, with storm warnings issued for an extensive portion of the East Coast. Read article
  • Stanford researchers have combined nanowires and nanotubes with cotton cloth to produce a cheap and effective way of producing water filters. Read article
  • New lab test identifies tuberculosis more easily and quickly than ever before, taking 90 minutes instead of 6 weeks. Read article
  • Drinking full fat milk found to be the best way to counteract the sulphur compounds which cause garlic breath. Read article
  • Researchers have identified two odour sensors which allow mosquitoes to find humans to bite. Read article
  • Newly discovered dinosaur fossil is a short stocky relative of Velociraptor which existed 70 million years ago. Read article
  • Crickets detect sound through their knees.
  • York University researcher identified 19 new bees including a new species of bee found in downtown Toronto. Read article
  • Astronomers have discovered that ultraviolet light from stars is central to the formation of water in space. Read article
  • Edmonton has launched the world's first plant which will convert household garbage into biofuel. Read article
  • Researchers have uncovered an ancient coral reef in the Tasman Sea. Read article
  • Astronaut Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian to be space station commander in a 2012 mission to the ISS. Read article
  • An international team of scientists has sequenced the genome of the Golden Delicious apple. Their findings could yield new and improved varieties. Read article
  • Analysis of past weather events reveals that the huge snowfalls of last winter were caused by a rare collision of two weather systems. Read article