Researchers at MIT have used machine learning to create software capable of detecting whether a person has caught COVID-19 by analyzing their cough, a development that could eventually result in an iPhone app for daily checks.
So far, the iPhone has lent itself to helping users determine if they are...
Mission to flatten Canada's COVID-19 curve again
Waterloo Public Health announced the first COVID-19-related death in the region in more than two months on Sunday.
The agency did not provide any further details of the first COVID-19-related death announced in Waterloo Region since Aug. 22.
The death, which is not related to...
A team of astronomers, earlier this year announced their discovery of activity emanating from Centaur 2014 OG392, a planetary object first found in 2014. As a result of the team's discovery, the Centaur has recently been reclassified as a comet, and will be known as 'C/2014 OG392 (PANSTARRS).'
Centaurs are...
Scientists say new information gathered on the asteroid 16 Psyche - a 140-mile-long minor planet situated within the main asteroid belt orbiting between Mars and Jupiter - via the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) will provide astronomical scientists with a clearer view of the rare metal asteroid and possibly provide...
A NASA spacecraft has successfully collected a sample from the Bennu asteroid more than 200 million miles away from Earth. The samples were safely stored and will be preserved for scientists to study after the spacecraft drops them over the Utah desert in 2023, according to the Associated Press...
For decades, astronomers have speculated that there may be water on the Moon. In recent years, this speculation was confirmed one orbiting satellite after another detected water ice around the Moon’s southern polar region. Within this part of the lunar surface, known as the South-Pole Aitken Basin, water ice...
SIR Sean Connery, best known for playing the role of James Bond, has died at the age of 90.
Tributes have already been made to the Scottish actor after his family announced the news.
He played the role of 007 for the first time in 1962's Dr No, and went on...
After last week’s extraordinary achievement of grabbing a sample of rock and dust from an asteroid speeding through space more than 200 million miles from Earth, NASA risked losing the collected material when it was discovered that some of it was escaping out of the spacecraft’s collector head.
The leak...
Billy Joe Shaver, whom Willie Nelson once called the greatest living Texas songwriter, died this morning following a massive stroke at Ascension Providence Hospital in Waco, reports Rolling Stone. He was 81.
Shaver, who took a bad fall last month and struggled with a bout of COVID-19 over the summer,...
The population of an endangered species of whale that has been the focus of conservation efforts for decades has dipped to less than 370.
The North Atlantic right whale numbers only 366, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said on Monday in an estimate that reflects the population as of...
