Sci-Tech

London Health Sciences Centre is the latest Canadian hospital to install a weapons detection system in its emergency department as health-care workers across the country continue to grapple with increasing violence.

Instagram is beginning to test the use of artificial intelligence to determine if kids are lying about their ages on the app, parent company Meta Platforms said on Monday.

In a ground-breaking experiment, scientists have discovered a brand-new colour, one they say has never been seen before. Dubbed ‘olo’, the colour is described as an intense blue-green that sits outside the usual range of what the human eye can see.

Several police forces, including the RCMP, are conducting a major operation in the Montreal area targeting LabHost, one of the largest, international phishing scam platforms in the world.

Hackers linked to Russia’s government launched a cyberattack last spring against municipal water plants in rural Texas. At one plant in Muleshoe, population 5,000, water began to overflow. Officials had to unplug the system and run the plant manually.

If it’s daytime, odds are a lone box truck is cruising the streets between Toronto and Brampton, Ont., with no one behind the wheel.

The sex change mechanism in ricefield eels remains a mystery to scientists to this day. However, warmer temperatures may play a role in inducing the sex change, according to a new study from a team of researchers in China.

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed something odd — a series of deep earthquakes that had occurred under the Sierra Nevada at a depth where Earth’s crust would typically be too hot and high pressure for seismic activity.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX and two partners have emerged as frontrunners to win a crucial part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s 'Golden Dome' missile defence shield, six people familiar with the matter said.

Mars was once wetter and warmer than it is today, according to a new study.

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet’s atmosphere the chemical fingerprints of gases that on Earth are produced only by biological processes.

Scientists have captured the first confirmed footage of the elusive colossal squid in its natural environment 100 years after the marine creature was first identified and named, according to the Schmidt Ocean Institute.

Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has thrown some support behind creative industries, which have been battling tech firms to be compensated for their work.

A colossal squid has been caught on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers steering a remotely operated submersible.

Pharmaceutical pollution in waterways is changing animal behaviour. Exposure to an antianxiety drug is affecting migrating Atlantic salmon, according to a new study.