1995 file photo of newborn (4 hours when photo was taken) beluga calf Qila cavorting with mother Aurora at the Vancouver Aquarium. Photograph by: Peter Battistoni, Vancouver Sun Files   Researchers at the University of British Columbia warned scientists Thursday they had found evidence that an infectious form of a cat parasite had spread through Arctic waters and has begun to appear in Beluga whales. Michael Grigg and Stephen Raverty […]

First a Noah’s Ark discovery raised a flood of questions, then there was the much-hyped debate over life’s origins between Bill Nye the Science Guy and creationist Ken Ham. And now this: a scientific report establishing that camels, the basic mode of transportation for the biblical patriarchs, weren’t domesticated in Israel until hundreds of years after Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are said to have wandered the earth. Using radiocarbon dating […]

    Site appears to equal importance of original Burgess Shale discovery Researchers have discovered a significant new shale fossil bed in Kootenay National Park that could equal the importance and one day even surpass the original discovery of the Burgess Shale in Yoho National Park. The exact location is being kept confidential but it`s near Marble Canyon. Michael Streng and a newly discovered fossil at a new Burgess Shale […]

A dataset, described as the largest of it kind to date, has assessed the impact of urbanisation on biodiversity levels around the globe. It found that cities supported far fewer species of birds and plants compared with similar areas of undeveloped land. However, it showed the vast majority of flora and fauna in a city reflected an area’s “unique biotic heritage”. The findings appear in the journal Proceedings of the […]

With a chip under your skin, you can do everything from unlocking doors to starting motorbikes, says Frank Swain, who has been trying to get his own implant. A few years ago, I perched on the edge of my bed in a tiny flat, breathing in a cloud of acetone fumes, using a scalpel to pick at the corner of an electronic travel card. More than 10 million Londoners use […]

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Cancer is one of mankind’s biggest killers, but one author believes we are using the wrong strategies to try and beat it. Cancer is one of the biggest killers in the modern world. It was the cause of nearly one-in-seven deaths in the world in 2010, and is expected to become an even bigger issue in decades to come, as human life expectancy increases and factors such as sedentary lifestyles […]

Large numbers of people do not know there is a lot they can do to reduce their exposure to risk. The globe is facing a “tidal wave” of cancer, and restrictions on alcohol and sugar need to be considered, say World Health Organization scientists. It predicts the number of cancer cases will reach 24 million a year by 2035, but half could be prevented. The WHO said there was now […]

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akarta, Indonesia (CNN) — The 15 victims simply couldn’t outrun the searing debris that billowed out of Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung. Plumes of ash had spewed more than a mile into the sky Saturday and descended in superheated clouds. Scalding ash up to 700 degrees in temperature raced down the slope in just two to three minutes. By the end of several eruptions, at least 15 people had been killed, a government […]