An Ottawa company is developing computerized glasses that help people with severe visual impairments see -- as well as zoom in on and replay what they saw with the press of a button.

ScienceDaily (Sep. 10, 2009) -- CSIRO and the Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia (DAFWA) are collaborating to try to outwit one of southern Australia's worst agricultural weeds.

ScienceDaily (Sep. 11, 2009) -- Most natural rubber comes from rubber trees in Southeast Asia, but this source is now under threat from a fungus. Researchers have optimized the Russian dandelion to make it suitable for large-scale rubber production.

US - An independent expert panel of physicians, nutritionists, and animal scientists has found that recombinant bovine somatotropin (rbST), the supplement approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for increasing milk production in lactating da

SIT on the steps of Mexico's El Castillo pyramid in Chichen Itza and you may hear a confusing sound. As other visitors climb the colossal staircase their footsteps begin to sound like raindrops falling into a bucket of water as they near the top. Were the

The digital age is upon us, and now is as good a time as any to brush up on your digital education. Prestigious colleges like MIT and Berkley offer online, open courses for the public.

There are often simple, low-tech solutions to difficult problems, including some ingenious ones from the great age of engineering in the last half of the nineteenth century. Kris at Low Tech Magazine explains how furniculars, those cable trains that were

A team of scientists led by U of C grad Casey Hubert has detected high numbers of heat loving, or thermophilic, bacteria in subzero sediments in the Arctic Ocean

Wolves may have domesticated themselves in China when they began scavenging around the garbage dumps at the first human settlements. As they became tamer, they were captured and bred. Given local traditions, the wolves would have been bred to be eaten.

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