Island Health is warning the public not to consume herring eggs that were harvested from French Creek to Qualicum Bay.
There had been a case of people getting sick and treated from eating the herring eggs that are believed to be contaminated with vibrio cholerae, a bacteria that is rarely...
University physical scientists synthesize new superconducting material, developing a process that may help ‘break down barriers and open the door to many potential applications.’
Compressing simple molecular solids with hydrogen at extremely high pressures, University of Rochester engineers and physicists have, for the first time, created material that is superconducting...
The COVID-19 vaccine is still in short supply and trying to get a shot can lead to a short tempter, but some frustrated vaccine-seekers are finding help in online forums.
Some Illinoisans are turning to Facebook after saying they found little help from public health officials and pharmacies.
Deanna Pear was...
NASA said Tuesday it may fly NASA astronauts, engineers, scientists, operators and trainers on suborbital vehicles owned by commercial companies.
NASA's Flight Opportunities program has successfully worked with emerging commercial suborbital transportation systems to fly research payloads to space for short periods of microgravity time. In addition, the Flight Opportunities...
PlayStation 5 (PS5) has been on sale in the US since 12 November but it didn't take long to sell out due to the number of pre-orders and the expectations generated by the new generation. There are two versions of the new Sony console: a model with a disc-reader...
The following is the full text of an op-ed written and released by Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry on Nov. 16 2020.
British Columbians have been nimble in adapting their individual actions to slow the spread of COVID-19 in our communities over the last ten months, and it...
The “Lost” star, 40, made a dramatic beauty decision on Sunday to buzz off her signature long, dark hair.
She chronicled the process on her Instagram, with posts in various stages of chopping off her hair with scissors before taking a buzzer to finish the job. She captioned the at-home...
The night sky will feature its version of fireworks to kick off the 2021 as the first weekend of the new year brings the peak of the Quadrantid meteor shower.
Although winter has just begun for the Northern Hemisphere, the Quadrantids is the season's final meteor shower before there is...
A DNA research traces the homeland of modern humans to the Makgadikgadi-Okavango wetland.
Professor Vanessa Hayes, a geneticist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Australia, said: "It has been clear for some time that anatomically modern humans appeared in Africa roughly 200,000 years ago.”
"What has been long debated...
