The wastewater test developed by CHEO Research Institute cell biologist Tyson Graber can be done more quickly and cheaply than the genetic sequencing currently being done in provincial labs to identify cases of B117 and other COVID variants of concern.
As soon as news got out, the phone calls and...
A new and always fatal disease that has been killing chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Sierra Leone for years has been reported for the first time by an international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The disease, reported Wednesday in the journal Nature Communications, is...
A prototype of SpaceX's Starship rocket has exploded during a landing attempt minutes after a high-altitude experimental launch from Boca Chica, Texas.
The blast was a repeat of an accident that destroyed a previous test rocket.
The Starship SN9 that blew up on its final descent, like the SN8 before it,...
Four exoplanets have been discovered around star TOI-1233 by two high schoolers, making them among the youngest people to have ever discovered a celestial body.
Sixteen-year-old Kartik Pinglé and 18-year-old Jasmine Wright were participating in the Student Research Mentoring Program (SRMP) at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &...
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. said Monday it will send four space tourists to orbit later this year on a mission to raise awareness for a children’s hospital.
SpaceX said the launch will take place “no earlier than the fourth quarter.” Jared Isaacman, founder and chief executive of Shift4 Payments Inc....
SpaceX's first high-altitude test flight of its Starship rocket, which exploded last month while attempting to land after an otherwise successful test launch, violated the terms of its Federal Aviation Administration test license, the Verge reported on Friday, citing sources.
An investigation was opened that week focusing on the explosive...
A new research has found that an upsurge of matter from beneath the Earth's crust under the Atlantic Ocean may be pushing the continents of North and South America farther apart from Europe and Africa.
Scientists out of the University of Southampton have found evidence of a "mantle upwelling" from...
Elon Musk's company SpaceX has successfully launched the Transporter-1 mission, breaking the record for the most number of satellites ever flown on a single rocket.
Today, Sunday, January 24 at 10 A.M. Eastern Time, the company's Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, with 143 commercial and government...
A 34-year-old grizzly bear captured in southwestern Wyoming has been confirmed as the oldest on record in the Yellowstone region, Wyoming wildlife officials said.
Grizzly bear 168 was captured last summer after it preyed on calves in the Upper Green River Basin area.
The male had just a few teeth left...
A Canadian-led team took a closer look and revealed how bizarre this 'super-puff' exoplanet is.
We've heard of super-Earths, mini-Neptunes, and hot Jupiters, but how about 'cotton-candy' planets? New observations of a recently discovered alien world have revealed it to be one of the strangest ever found.
In 2017, astronomers using...
