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• Here's how fish might be able to help paralysed people walk

  04-11-2016 01:12
  
  Scientists have found a special growth protein responsible for spinal healing.
  
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• Canadian Astronaut Jeremy Hansen’s journey into space to be published in a book this fall

  29-07-2026 20:36 via cbc.ca
  
  Earthrise: A Canadian Astronaut's Journey into Deep Space will share story of the historic lunar mission.
  
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• Marmots on OnlyFans: Researchers turn to the internet for funding

  29-07-2026 17:56 via cbc.ca
  
  Funding has always been a challenge for Dan Blumstein's long-term study of yellow-bellied marmots, even more so since the Trump administration started defunding some environmental research. So he and his team are posting videos of the loaf-like rodents on OnlyFans and asking for tips.
  
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• These P.E.I. farmers are growing food — for bees

  29-07-2026 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Some farmers on P.E.I. are planting patches of fields for bees and other pollinators as part of a global campaign. There are 33 farms participating this year, and the hope is to build on that success. CBC’s Nancy Russell reports.
  
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• 'Stewards of the land': Cape Breton groups heralded for salmon conservation efforts

  29-07-2026 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Shae Denny says it is "almost incomprehensible" that local conservation efforts in Cape Breton are being recognized on the world stage.
  
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• You can only see these fire clouds during huge wildfires

  29-07-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A huge fire in southwest France has generated the country's first recorded pyrocumulonimbus fire cloud, which are far more common in Canada. Here's why these clouds are special, how they form and how they make wildfires worse.
  
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• What is open-weight AI, the tech behind Kimi K3 that's turning heads in Silicon Valley?

  29-07-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The freedom and lower price tag of open-weight models is turning the heads of business leaders in the west, where the merits have prompted letters from top tech leaders warning against restrictions on open models, despite the potential for security risks.
  
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• What climate science can tell us about the lost world that inspired The Odyssey

  29-07-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A new climate study suggests centuries of drought added pressure to the Bronze Age societies that inspired Homer's The Odyssey, revealing how environmental stress, food insecurity and failing trade networks may have shaped a world of collapse and survival.
  
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• Large great white shark found dead on Nova Scotia beach, cause of death a mystery

  28-07-2026 21:42 via cbc.ca
  
  Researchers in northern Nova Scotia have yet to determine what caused the death of a large great white shark that recently washed ashore near Pictou.
  
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• Black bears can once again be hunted with dogs in Alberta this year

  28-07-2026 20:56 via cbc.ca
  
  The practice has been brought back this year as part of Alberta's wildlife management strategy, namely to help protect recovering caribou populations from predators.
  
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• UNB researchers discover way to supercharge cancer-drug production

  28-07-2026 20:06 via cbc.ca
  
  New research led by University of New Brunswick chemists may revolutionize the way some drugs are manufactured.
  
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• Driven into senescence by chronic stress | Science Signaling

  28-07-2026 15:01 via science.org
  
  Chronic stress in mice causes anxiety and hyperglycemia by inducing senescence in amygdala astrocytes.
  
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• A reduction in A-to-I RNA editing by ADAR disrupts Pumilio-mediated inhibition of MAPK signaling to drive intestinal stem cell aging | Science Signaling

  28-07-2026 15:01 via science.org
  
  The RNA editing enzyme ADAR slows intestinal stem cell aging by reducing proliferative MAPK signaling.
  
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• Sudbury 'bat walks' helping conservationists learn more about local populations

  28-07-2026 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Many people avoid bats, but a Sudbury environmental group hopes to replace that fear with curiosity while studying the city's local bat population.
  
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• Sudbury 'bat walks' help conservationists learn more about local populations

  28-07-2026 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Many people avoid bats, but a Sudbury environmental group hopes to replace that fear with curiosity while studying the northern Ontario city's local bat population.
  
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• Major earthquake shakes southern Japan, some victims trapped in damaged shopping mall

  28-07-2026 10:53 via cbc.ca
  
  A major earthquake hit Japan's southern Kyushu island on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads ‌and leaving some trapped and others presumed dead inside a partially collapsed shopping mall.
  
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• Magnitude-7.1 earthquake shakes part of southern Japan, injuring dozens and damaging buildings

  28-07-2026 10:53 via cbc.ca
  
  A major earthquake rocked Japan's southern Kumamoto prefecture ‌on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and injuring at least 50 people.
  
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• At least 3 dead, dozens injured or missing after Japan earthquake

  28-07-2026 10:53 via cbc.ca
  
  A major earthquake hit Japan's Kyushu island on Tuesday, killing at least three, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads ‌and leaving some trapped inside a partially collapsed shopping mall.
  
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• At least 13 dead after Japan earthquake as rescuers scramble to find survivors

  28-07-2026 10:53 via cbc.ca
  
  Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said 13 people have been found dead after a powerful quake shook part of southwestern Japan. She said rescue workers were continuing to search for the missing on Wednesday morning.
  
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• Trump says Canada should stop wildfire smoke. Experts say it's not that simple

  28-07-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  While U.S. President Donald Trump calls out Canadian wildfire management, communities across the country are seeking to mitigate the impacts of fires. Experts say not every fire can be stopped, but FireSmart practices, fireguards and Indigenous cultural burning can lower risk.
  
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• As Trump threatens wildfire smoke tariffs, Canada looks to reduce fire risk

  28-07-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  While U.S. President Donald Trump calls out Canadian wildfire management, communities across the country are seeking to mitigate the impacts of fires. Experts say not every fire can be stopped, but FireSmart practices, fireguards and Indigenous cultural burning can lower risk.
  
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• 75 of these whales remain. A new West Coast pipeline would be 'devastating' for them, experts say

  28-07-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Multiple environmental groups are concerned the Alberta government's proposed oil pipeline route poses a risk to southern resident killer whales. They are protected under the Species At Risk Act, but the Carney government is considering changes that would give cabinet power to exempt certain projects from the "jeopardy test" for species at risk.
  
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• Jade across the Rockies: New research on stone celt artifacts helps map Indigenous trade routes

  27-07-2026 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  New research analyzing jade artifacts, unearthed east of the Rocky Mountains, sheds light on vast Indigenous trade networks that once cut across pre-colonial Western Canada.
  
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• Tick-borne illness on the rise in Nova Scotia

  27-07-2026 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  When Nova Scotia began listing anaplasmosis as a notifiable disease in 2023, it logged 317 cases. Last year, that number was 681.
  
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• Meteorites from viral June fireball event recovered from island in Lake Huron

  27-07-2026 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Scientists with Western University's Meteor Physics Group have verified that the fragments recently recovered from Cockburn Island in northern Ontario are meteorites from June 19 fireball event.
  
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• Growth of sea lettuce can cause discoloured water, says biologist

  27-07-2026 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A marine plant called sea lettuce is the reason some P.E.I. waterways change colour and smell like rotten eggs, says an expert in water biology.
  
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• Fredericton backyards abuzz with an insect that's finally being tracked

  27-07-2026 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Equipped with insect nets, vials and a temperature-controlled cooler, Nature NB is searching across Fredericton this summer to document an important but not well understood neighbour: the native bumblebee.
  
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• Volunteer scheme credited with changing man's life

  27-07-2026 07:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Michael Reynolds, 27, says the scheme helps him to "get away from day-to-day life".
  
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• 'Off the scale' haul of nitrous oxide cans found

  27-07-2026 07:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Litterpickers say they found 82 in a day, and normally find between three and 12.
  
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• The nature reserve where 'magical' glow worms thrive

  27-07-2026 07:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The nature reserve in Sussex is seen as a 'stronghold' for the near threatened glow worm.
  
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