Health officials in Ontario are reporting 848 more cases of COVID-19 over the last two days and two additional deaths linked to the disease.
Tuesday’s report brings the province’s seven-day average for the number of cases logged to 524—down from 576 a week ago.
Of the cases reported today, 458 were...
You will need to be fully vaccinated to visit patients at the Ottawa Hospital.
The hospital has announced that starting Monday, it will require proof of vaccination for visitors entering the hospital.
"This is to ensure the safety of everyone in the hospital,” a statement said.
The hospital says the vaccination requirement...
Have we finally detected dark energy? The implications could be enormous, Dr. Sunny Vagnozzi, lead author on a University of Cambridge paper on the subject, tells us over email. "Directly detecting dark energy, and in particular its non-gravitational interactions, would have a tremendous impact," he explains
A new study reported...
The Cambrian Era, when animal life exploded into stunning diversity 541-485 million years ago, has surprised biologists once again. The latest discovery is Titanokorys gainesi, a creature that today would be notable for its shape, but then stood out for its enormous size, relative to the small animals of...
A cost-effective, eco-friendly, and large-scale system is essential to store and retrieve renewable energy. Currently, there are no sustainable methods for storing green energy, as batteries are environmentally toxic. This is a big problem.
Cornell bioengineer Buz Barstow, Ph.D. ’09 have suggested the solution to this problem: a bacteria called...
A government research organisation in China has outlined plans to design and build "ultra-large" spacecraft, potentially miles-wide and assembled piecemeal in space.
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) has recently published a five-year plan articulating the "urgent need" to invest in studies on space exploration equipment.
This equipment could...
As far as Lower Paleolithic archaeology goes, this is quite the haul: Experts have uncovered a record 98 elephant-bone tools at a site dating back some 400,000 years.
In a new study, University of Colorado Boulder archaeologist Paola Villa and her colleagues surveyed tools excavated from a site in...
In April this year, Nasa’s Ingenuity helicopter made history when it undertook its first flight in the Martian atmosphere, rising some 10 feet above the planet’s surface. It was humankind’s first successful attempt at flying a powered aircraft in another world.
Now, according to a Reuters report, China has developed...
Federal health officials are urging Canadians not to buy or use veterinary ivermectin — a deworming treatment for animals — to prevent or treat COVID-19.
The warning from Health Canada, issued Tuesday, notes “concerning reports” that people are buying this drug due to “false and misleading claims” that it can...
