Stem Cell Financing Ban Ends, for Now
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court here ruled Thursday that federal financing of embryonic stem cell research could continue while the court thinks about a judge’s order last month that ...
Tiger cub in intensive care after surprise birth
Calgary Zoo officials are caring for a Siberian tiger cub born unexpectedly Monday. (Calgary Zoo)Veterinary teams worked through the night to save the one of two tiger cubs born unexpectedly ...
Genentech Scientist to Lead Rockefeller University
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, who is executive vice president for research and the chief scientific officer at Genentech, will become the first president of Rockefeller University to come from industry, Russell L. ...
Electric automobile ends coast-to-coast trip
Ricky Gu and his E-Beetle ended their 6,500-kilometre journey in Halifax on Monday. (CBC) An engineering student from B.C. is claiming to be the first person to cross mainland Canada ...
Extreme Weather in a Warming World
I’ve written a piece for Wednesday’s Op-Ed page offering a short look at extreme weather in a warming world and the two prongs of the climate challenge — the need ...
Desert Roads Lead to Discovery in Egypt
In the practice of what they call desert-road archaeology, the Darnells found pottery and ruins where soldiers, merchants and other travelers camped in the time of the pharaohs. On a ...
VIDEO: Astronauts’ exercise slows aging
Canadian astronaut Bob Thirsk exercises with a harness aboard the International Space Station during ISS Expedition 20/21. (NASA) Hitting the gym helps slow the aging process in space, as well ...
Last chance to catch Fraser River sockeye
A sockeye salmon is reeled in by a fisherman along the shores of the Fraser River near Chilliwack, B.C., on Sept. 1. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press) The banner-year West Coast salmon ...
Smarter Than You Think: The Boss Is Robotic, and Rolling Up Behind You
Dr. Shatzel, a neurologist, hustled not to the emergency room where the patient lay — 260 miles away, in Bakersfield — but to a darkened room at a hospital here. ...
Craigslist removes adult services section
Craigslist in the U.S. indicates the adult section is censored. Craigslist has apparently closed the adult services section of its website in the United States, two weeks after 17 say ...