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CT scans on your smartphone

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:00:15 +0000

A Canadian firm has an app that lets doctors view CT scans on a smartphone.

Rare red pandas born in Winnipeg

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:00:05 +0000

Two rare baby red pandas, born at Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Park Zoo in June, are being brought out to meet the press.

Samsung launches Galaxy Tab with Kobo e-reader

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:00:05 +0000

Samsung has launched the Galaxy Tab, a competitor tablet computer to Apple’s hit iPad, and it is shipping with some Canadian content: the Kobo e-reading application.

Hadfield named space station commander

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:00:03 +0000

Col. Chris Hadfield will become the first Canadian astronaut to command the International Space Station during a mission launching late in 2012.

RIM should open up user data: UN agency

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:00:03 +0000

The head of the United Nations telecommunications agency has urged BlackBerry maker Research in Motion to allow law enforcement agencies access to customer data.

God unnecessary to create universe: Hawking

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:00:02 +0000

Physicist Stephen Hawking says God wasn’t necessary for the creation of the universe.

1st century wall paintings restored in Jordan

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:33:17 +0000

British archeologists have completed conservation of rare wall paintings near the city of Petra, Jordan, that are more than 2,000 years old.

AUDIO: Technology and the great outdoors

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:55:57 +0000

Cellphones and GPS devices are changing people’s relationship with the great outdoors – a topic explored on CBC Radio’s The Current.

AUDIO: Retired chimps may face more experiments

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:52:48 +0000

A group of chimpanzees in New Mexico, some of them in their 50s, may be taken out of retirement to be used as research subjects.

Fall peaches bred in Niagara

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:05:35 +0000

A professor at the University of Guelph in southern Ontario is developing a series of peach varieties that could continue to be available into late September.