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Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. From UFOs to missing and dead scientists, fringe ideas and conspiracy theories have come to the …

In the movie The Day After Tomorrow, the world’s weather systems are thrown into chaos when an important Atlantic Ocean current abruptly shuts down. Tornadoes rip through Los Angeles, sea levels rise and wipe out most of coastal New York, and large parts of the Northern Hemisphere are plunged into …

LISTEN | Full interview with zoologist Emma Murphy: As It Happens6:34Scientists thrilled as a rare and elusive Greenland shark washes up in Ireland When Emma Murphy got word that a dead Greenland shark had washed up on the shores of northwestern Ireland, she was gobsmacked.  Not only are the massive …

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. Are you a night owl who’s always had trouble adjusting to an early bird schedule? …

Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Scientists studying polar bears were greeted with a most unexpected surprise during a recent tracking expedition …

Fears of an AI bubble overlook where tech experts believe a lot of real value in the AI economy will come from: not large language models themselves, but in what we’ll build on top of them. It’s early days, but we’re already starting to see useful applications. Already, AI can …

As night falls over a large country house in Washington state’s Snohomish County, a dozen volunteers gather around Abby Tobin, a scientist with the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife.   “They’ll start getting restless soon,” Tobin says. The group is attentive as Tobin gives instructions. Their mission is as …

Global warming is crossing dangerous thresholds sooner than expected, with the world’s coral reefs now in an almost irreversible die-off, marking what scientists on Monday described as the first “tipping point” in climate-driven ecosystem collapse. The warning in the Global Tipping Points report by 160 researchers worldwide, which synthesizes groundbreaking …

Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel chemistry prize for developing a new form of molecular architecture, yielding materials that can help tackle challenges such as climate change and lack of fresh water. The three laureates worked to create molecular constructions with large spaces through …

Scientists Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for “their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance,” the award-giving body said on Monday. This year’s prize “relates to how we keep our immune system under control so we can fight all imaginable microbes …