From food to fuel, AI helps pinpoint how to grow ‘microalgae’ at scale

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Optogenetics wins the Nobel – one neuroscience breakthrough in a line of technological innovations helping scientists map and control the brain

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How AI could help predict and explain water levels in the Great Lakes

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Are Australia’s native bees thriving or declining? We don’t know but can find out

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AI has made borrowing more expensive – an expert explains how bond markets are changing

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BYD is reshaping Australia’s car market. How did it get here?

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Meta wants people to use ‘AI agents’ to do daily tasks for them. Here’s why that’s a problem

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Shock to the power bill remains a top data centre worry among Albertans

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AI is creating jobs as well as erasing them – but how rewarding are they?

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Why AI consciousness could become the next great societal divide

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An environmental reckoning? Data centre rush hits hard realities

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Psilocybin may help the brain recover from concussion, new study shows

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Your brain runs on 20 watts. Could brain‑inspired computing do the same?

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Advertising is coming to AI chatbots — and it could influence the answers you get

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OpenAI may have solved the Navier‑Stokes equation — but mathematics is more than $1 million trophy hunts

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An opt‑out system for AI companies to access creative works doesn’t gel with Australia’s copyright laws. Here’s why

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What does a good data centre future look like? And how do we get there?

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Are data centres actually noisy, and is this bad for our health?

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The Future of European Logistics: What Lies Ahead

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GNWT signs on to MOU on nuclear energy generation

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Big AI wants to slow down AI research. Is it a safety pause or a strategic retreat?

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Travel bots are making decisions for us – convenient, but should we trust them?

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Floods and droughts are both signs of water insecurity – they show up in these four places

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How to help your garden recover from a heatwave

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The next frontier is not artificial intelligence, it’s artificial societies

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Could AI really kill off humanity within the decade? Expert Q&A

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AI is helping businesses learn what customers will pay – and workers will accept

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The Netherlands forced Meta to let users ditch algorithmic feeds. Here’s what happened

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OpenAI claims another huge mathematical result amid fights over credit, ethics and privacy

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An invisible AI watermark is coming to your messages. Your relationships may pay the price

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The War Against Data Centers

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How Cryptocurrencies Challenge Monetary Sovereignty

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Proposed laws would let you opt out of social media algorithms. An expert explains

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How AI could make us work even harder

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How a little stress may help our cells protect themselves

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Human ‘safety drivers’ in Uber robotaxis could lose skills if all they do is observe

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AI agents can now remember and hackers can ‘poison’ their memories — a new cybersecurity threat

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Why do we trust chatbots and how can we use them more wisely? A psychologist explains

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Australians could soon be able to choose what appears in their social media feed. How would this work?

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Where is AI headed? Two media theorists from the 1960s can help us figure it out

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Europe needs to fight back against US software dominance – and now is the time

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How AI‑powered policing is endangering the public’s trust in police

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Data centres and democratic decline could lead to more water conflict in the future

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Canada shouldn’t try to build everything it needs for the AI era

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New research shows how psychedelics reorganise the patterns in your brain

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AI bias isn’t just an error in the algorithm. It’s a chain of human decisions

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Offloading work tasks to AI comes with a cost – to our brains

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Before schools embrace AI, Canada must protect children’s learning

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‘You’re a 4 out of 10’: the troubling rise of AI appearance ratings

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How animals prepare for war

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How a cosmic coincidence gives Earth its ‘perfect’ solar eclipses

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Why the real test of Canada’s AI strategy is in university classrooms

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Sturgeon County to be home to $13B Meta data centre

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New research estimates around 20 million insect species on Earth — doubling those facing extinction

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Smart glasses are going mainstream. Do current privacy laws protect us from the risks?

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Money worries can leave a lasting mark on the brain, 80‑year study shows

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Why AI wants you to buy more – and mindfulness could help you buy less

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ADHD diagnoses and prescriptions have increased globally across all age groups, our review shows

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Will companies ever be run by an AI CEO?

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As the skies get busier, will AI help air traffic controllers keep planes flying safely?

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Some tropical butterflies live surprisingly long lives. Is it their high‑protein diet?

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Canada can’t regulate Big Tech by trusting Big Tech

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Sam Altman says we’re ‘in the singularity’ with AI. Here’s why he’s wrong

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‘Was this heatwave caused by climate change?’ – we’re asking the wrong question

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How an OpenAI safety test became a real‑world cyberattack on the Hugging Face platform

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AI is transforming health care, but not everyone will share the benefits

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Canada can stop surveillance pricing before it reaches the checkout

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Ottawa’s AI strategy is built to inspire trust, not protect Canadians

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Artificial intelligence regulation must not leave older adults behind

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Most Canadian teens have seen graphic violence online, and algorithms — not searches — are to blame

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How we are engineering bacteria to eat cancer

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Study links Yukon chinook salmon decline to marine heat waves in the Bering Sea

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Do patients who suffer heart attack have more micro and nanoplastic in their blood? New study assessed

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Why you are seeing bees struggling to survive this summer

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Should AI chatbots simulate care for students? Alberta teachers say no

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Human rights group Amnesty International calls out Meta data centre project in Sturgeon County

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Health reform needs places where the system is allowed to learn

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Is recursive self‑improvement the dawning of AI superintelligence?

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AI is reshaping both sides of Canada’s immigration fraud battle

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ABC will trial using AI for journalism. What are the risks and benefits?

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Is Water Usage in AI Data Centres Sustainable?

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How Community Solar Incentives Help Lower Your Energy Costs

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The world’s oceans are the hottest on record for June – and El Niño is set to turn up the heat even more

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How generative AI and physics can help design new antibiotics

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Ammonia from wastewater: How we’re turning a pollutant into fertilizer and clean fuel

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AI can be a personal trainer in your pocket – but is it safe?

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Investigative interviews are key to solving crimes – should AI be helping police with their inquiries?

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Anyone can fake a scientific image with AI, tricking even academic journals – and undermining trust in science

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Why was the early Earth so hot? The heat wasn’t just coming from the inside

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Most bees are solitary and don’t live in hives. Climate change risks them starving

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World Cup technology: from ref cams to AI analysts, cutting‑edge research is changing the game

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We discovered a new rock type containing garnet inside a meteorite fragment from Mars

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Canada’s AI strategy must reckon with the environmental implications of data centres

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Canada should keep its data out of U.S. hands

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Workplace AI is writing the rules. Workers need to see them

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Universities need new ways to assess learning in the age of AI

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Your AI habit is wasting precious resources. Here’s how to use it responsibly

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Making a big, life‑changing decision? 7 steps to consider

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AI robots can go rogue – a researcher on how easily it happens

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AI saves time – so why does it make us feel guilty?

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What makes the ideal digital icon? A psychologist explains

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Artificial intelligence raises profound moral questions — for all of humanity to answer

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Sovereign AI? Anthropic shutdown reveals Canada’s weakness

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A safe AI strategy for Canadian youth should include age‑associated risks

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Alberta school board eyeing federal plan to ban social media for teenagers

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The giant viruses that orchestrate life in the polar regions

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Kids on social media more than two hours a day at higher risk of mental illness

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What happens to microplastics when swallowed? In earthworms, they do not leave the digestive tract

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To achieve ‘AI for all’ in agriculture, Canada’s farmers need regional, systems‑level change

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World’s first AI‑designed vaccine explained

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If AI is addictive, where does the responsibility lie – with big tech or its users?

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Canada’s sovereignty needs more than guns and steel

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Chatbot teddies for three‑year‑olds? Why AI toys are risky for kids

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People are using AI to communicate without disclosing it. Is this morally wrong?

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Australia now has access to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos. It may improve cyber safety – but not for everyone

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Focus apps are failing neurodivergent minds, new research finds

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What are the risks of contracting West Nile virus from a mosquito in Canada?

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Quantum computers could expose our digital secrets – but there are much better reasons to build them

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Should FIFA be doing more to protect soccer players from the World Cup heat?

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‘Utter disregard for the risk to human life’: Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI safety

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Cities are making it rain more – but not as much as scientists thought

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Are our cars spying on us? A cybersecurity expert explains how to stay safe

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In a sea of hype, here are the AI ‘nothingburgers’ you don’t hear about

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Mosquitoes learn to link the smell of DEET with a blood meal – new study

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Psychopathy: some experts now say it doesn’t exist – here’s why we may be looking at it all wrong

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Influencers are promoting dangerous peptides on social media – and regulators are struggling to keep up

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From gait analysis to fingerprint theft, how worried should we be about the latest advances in biometric technology?

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After you upload your data to the cloud, where does it go? The challenge of dual‑use technologies

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Children’s privacy is now critical infrastructure in the AI era

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How the Great Pyramid of Giza has survived 4,500 years of Egyptian earthquakes

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First video of immune cells eating live skin cancer in real time

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We’re ‘green chemists’ – why we think this emerging science can transform the way the world uses its resources

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Could sodium replace lithium as the dominant ingredient in batteries?

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Nearly everything we use online is owned by big tech. There’s a better way forward

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How traffic makes cities warmer

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Eaten, used as taxis and vomited up: how bees support other animals

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The Pennine hills are full of holes – here’s how they’re helping fight climate change

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Elon Musk sued OpenAI and lost. But the core question of the case remains unanswered

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Businesses need more than generic chatbots to benefit from AI. Will this budget help?

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If AI can translate instantly, why learn another language?

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More and more websites want proof you’re human. Blame the bots

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Can plants hear? Latest research offers new insights

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AI doesn’t create bias, it inherits it – how do we ensure fairness when it comes to automated decisions?

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Is your AI chatbot manipulating you? Subtly reshaping your opinions?

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From AI companions to climate action, we  undervalue what lies ahead

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College students are noticing their AI‑smoothed writing sounds strong — and not like them

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The AI scientist: now academic papers can be fully automated, what does this mean for the future of research?

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Can houseplants really purify the air in your home? What the science actually says

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Physicists have measured ‘negative time’ in the lab

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To lead in global innovation, Canada must prioritize basic science

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Canada’s fragmented electronic health records harm patients and cost taxpayers billions: New research

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Africa’s malaria fight needs stronger local research

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Making tech giants pay for news was a success the first time around. It can be done again

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‘Just looping you in’: why letting AI write our emails might actually create more work

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Tea tree oil may affect fertility, the EU says. A pharmacologist explains why that’s so misleading

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The Carney government’s embrace of AI will put lives at risk

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Bacteriophages: meet the viruses that hunt superbugs

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We found a way to turn Canada goose poop into chicken feed and crop fertilizer

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AI ‘deadbots’ can fuel pathological grief and affect how we deal with death

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What Honda’s EV retreat means for the future of clean tech

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Smartphone apps are changing how we study everyday brain activity

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These £500 plug‑in solar panels are about to go on sale: here’s what an expert says you need to know

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Scientists have found a safer way to hunt for the next pandemic virus

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What is black garlic? How heat and humidity turn a pungent ingredient mild and slightly sweet

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How scientists changed their view of insomnia

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Landmark privacy determination puts rent tech platforms on notice. But renters remain vulnerable

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Meta and Microsoft have joined the tech layoff tsunami – but is AI really to blame?

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The Promise and Peril of Ocean Carbon Removal

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To enrich or not to enrich nuclear fuel: Canada’s dilemma

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We eat a lot of wheat. So how can we grow more in a changing climate?

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Why delaying climate action now means higher seas by 2100 – new research

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Why some countries give away free electricity and even pay consumers to use it

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Microplastics have been found to interact with the gut microbiome – here’s what health effects they might have

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Codeine: why one person’s painkiller can be another person’s problem

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What a ‘post‑antibiotic era’ could mean for modern medicine

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AI has crossed a threshold – what Claude Mythos means for the future of cybersecurity

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Crypto tolls in the Strait of Hormuz shows why bitcoin thrives in times of crisis

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Edible orchids are being overharvested in the Mediterranean – how to protect these astonishing blooms

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Half of AI health answers are wrong even though they sound convincing – new study

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Why understanding autism means looking beyond spoken language – two autistic researchers of communication explain

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From floppy discs to Claude Mythos, how ransomware grew into a multibillion‑dollar industry

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Slanguage: Why AI’s stylistic negation — ‘it’s not X, it’s Y’ — is both annoying and doesn’t work

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Paris has successfully cut noise pollution, but urban birds still can’t sing at their natural pitch

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Opaque immigration screening threatens Canada’s global talent strategy

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The next frontier of AI is biological digital twins

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Why is alcohol use declining in Canada?

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Canada cannot afford to lose international research talent — here’s what needs to change

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Football is being spoiled by time‑wasting – what can be done ahead of the World Cup?

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How AI’s language barrier limits climate disaster responses

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How hidden soil fungi ‘steal’ bacterial DNA to control the rain

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Does ‘federated unlearning’ in AI improve data privacy, or create a new cybersecurity risk?

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How to build a digital ‘twin’ of the human brain – what existing models overlook

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Your brain for sale? The new frontier of neural data

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Five tips to make your memory work more effectively

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AI pragmatists: How language teachers are navigating AI with nuance

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Artificial intelligence and biology: AI’s potential for launching a novel era for health and medicine

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Canada’s cybersecurity sector has a pipeline problem — and a glass ceiling

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Just how bad are generative AI chatbots for our mental health?

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New research shows how forests can prevent floods of all sizes

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From ‘sustainable’ to ‘regenerative’ agriculture: What’s in a name?

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