The American Bumblebee – a species once more commonly seen buzzing around Southern Ontario – is critically endangered, according to a new study led by York University. The finding, published in Journal of Insect Conservation, found the native North American species, Bombus pensylvanicus, is facing imminent extinction from Canada, considered the highest and Continue Reading
Continuing a trend of rising temperatures, 2018 was the fourth hottest year on record, according to a climate change report out Wednesday from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The past five years have been the warmest in the modern record, the report said, and 2018’s global Continue Reading
Trees have the ability to capture and remove pollutants from the soil and degrade them through natural processes in the plant. It’s a feat of nature companies have used to help clean up polluted sites, though only in small-scale projects. Now, a probiotic bacteria for trees can boost the speed Continue Reading
Rice University materials scientists have created a light foam from two-dimensional sheets of hexagonal-boron nitride (h-BN) that absorbs carbon dioxide. They discovered freeze-drying h-BN turned it into a macro-scale foam that disintegrates in liquids. But adding a bit of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) into the mix transformed it into a Continue Reading
About $20 billion worth of energy leaks out of windows in the United States each winter – and that’s with double-paned insulating windows installed on a majority of buildings. The Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is now working with manufacturers to bring to market a “super Continue Reading
There’s a conspiracy theory that Facebook is eavesdropping on our conversations through our phones to send us better ads. Despite Facebook’s insistence the theory is false, it’s a devilishly stubborn urban myth that’s held on, since even before CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony to Congress last year. CNET’s own tests Continue Reading
Who Tried It: Grace Gavilanes, PEOPLE writer-reporter Instagram is thinking pink with its sudden flood of pink drink pics (try saying that three times fast) that have been causing quite the commotion and double-tapping among Starbucks lovers.
A novel composite material has been developed by scientists in the Energy Safety Research Institute (ESRI) at Swansea University which shows promise as a catalyst for the degradation of environmentally-harmful synthetic dye pollutants, which are released at a rate of nearly 300,000 tonnes a year into the world’s water. This Continue Reading
Ticketmaster is reportedly recruiting professional scalpers in order to get more money from customers and expand its resale business, according to undercover investigations by CBC News and The Toronto Star published Wednesday. In July, reporters from the publications went undercover at an industry convention called Ticket Summit in Las Vegas. Continue Reading
I’d seen countless pictures of Saint-Nazaire’s submarine base, but in person it was even more impressive. The sharp lines and structural bulk would be interesting on their own even if it weren’t a World War II relic. Even though the industrial and commercial area around the base is entirely modern, Continue Reading
