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Technology & Science The third test of SpaceX's Starship rocket that CEO Elon Musk hopes will one day ferry humans to Mars, launched from Boca Chica, Texas, on Wednesday, and touched down softly, but exploded shortly thereafter. In a handout photo, SpaceX's Starship SN10 is seen firing its thrusters, as …

British Columbia The Vancouver Park Board is calling in reinforcements in its battle against Canada geese, asking for the public's help to control the growing population of 3,500 birds. A Canada goose watches as goslings feed at Vancouver's Stanley Park in 2016.(THE CANADIAN PRESS) In Vancouver, it's geese who reign …

Edmonton With their abilities to open doors and take photos, the four-legged robot “dogs” Bolt and Gadget are clearly a cut above the average canine. The four-legged Spot robots have cameras or arm attachments where the head would be. (Supplied by Boston Dynamics) A dog training academy is teaching new …

Politics With the prospect of a blanket exemption from Buy American policies now looking unlikely, Canada is seeking a deal that would allow Canadian firms to take part in the Biden administration’s green energy push, said Canada’s chief trade negotiator. Canada's chief trade negotiator, Steve Verheul, told a committee of …

Ideas·Q&A In her new book Work Mate Marry Love, Harvard professor Debora Spar argues that nearly all the decisions we make in our most intimate lives — whom we marry, how we have children, and how we build families — have always been driven by technology. She explains how these …

British Columbia Bruce Archibald, a paleontologist at Simon Fraser University, and his colleagues have been studying insect fossils from southern B.C., and northern interior Washington for 30 years. Cephalozygoptera, left, is an extinct damselfly-like insect that has been mistaken as a damselfly, right, for more than a century despite its …

Business Tech billionaire Bill Gates has spent the last several years examining just how tough the climate change battle will be and admits, "This is going to be harder than any other domain that I've ever worked in.” As countries look to decarbonize, Bill Gates sees the oilpatch playing a …

Technology & Science Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose slightly in December compared with the same month of 2019, indicating the sharp drop seen due to the pandemic was short-lived. Smoke rises from a factory as a truck loaded with cars crosses a bridge in Paris in this November 2018 …

Technology & Science Sophisticated scanning technology is revealing intriguing secrets about Little Foot, the remarkable fossil of an early human forerunner that inhabited South Africa 3.67 million years ago during a critical juncture in our evolutionary history. New imaging of the Little Foot skull Climate Change 20 hours ago 0:42 …

Technology & Science The discovery of an intact ceremonial chariot was revealed by officials at the Pompeii archaeological site in Italy on Saturday. The chariot survived the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79, a building collapse and looting by antiquities thieves. A view of a chariot, with its iron elements, …