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Airlifted Canadian bison sent to Russia to boost species' survival

Canadian wildlife officials have delivered a shipment of 30 wood bison from a national park in Alberta to a historic buffalo stomping ground in sub-Arctic Russia — part of a unique, intercontinental gift of natural heritage aimed at boosting the species' long-range chances of survival.

 
 
 

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Chimps self-aware, says study

Chimpanzees are self-aware and can anticipate the impact of their actions on the environment around them, an ability once thought to be uniquely human, according to a study released Wednesday.


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Science needs to be in social media: report

Canadians' extraordinary support for an unproven "liberation" treatment for multiple sclerosis has led to a call for the country's research community to get with social media.


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The Cal Arts Robot Orchestra

Robots are ready to jam with old-fashioned humans

Ajay Kapur and Michael Darling have glimpsed the future. And it looks a little like "The Jetsons" meets "Spinal Tap."


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the Temple of Amenhotep III in Egypt

Statue of pharaoh found in temple

Archeologists have discovered a giant statue of Egypt's famous pharaoh Amenhotep III at his mortuary temple in the southern city of Luxor, the antiquities authority said on Tuesday.


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Oldest-known reptile fossil comes home to Nova Scotia

The oldest known fossil of a reptile doesn't look like much — still it's an irreplaceable piece of the tale of evolution that was discovered in 1859 in Nova Scotia.


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Plastic, heal thyself: scientists invent smart polymers

Scientists on Thursday unveiled a new kind of plastic that can repair itself when exposed to ordinary light.


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Dave Brown

Biking for Mother Earth on Mother's Day

First things first. Mom, happy Mother's Day. To my lovely wife, Jenny, happy Mother's Day to you, too (I think there's a present from Aidan coming with this morning's breakfast).

 
Ken Gray

Canada: the conservative nation

We are a conservative lot, we Canadians. It might explain the surge in support for the New Democratic Party. Maybe even the Tories, too.

 
Elizabeth Payne

Voter preferences can be a roll of the dice

Her name is Ruth Ellen Brosseau. She's a single mother from Gatineau and a pub manager in Ottawa and she has just become the most famous Canadian politician nobody had ever heard of until a few days ago.

 
Susan Riley

In with the new

'This is going to change so many things," veteran New Democrat Libby Davies said in the aftermath of her party's breakthrough on election night. "I think it's a whole new ball game. It's going to be a whole new kind of politics."

 
 
 
 
 
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