CBC: Technology & Science

Thursday th 13th of August 2020

Canadian tech group spends $100K on billboards to lure anxious tech workers from U.S. - 03:10

Effectiveness of COVID Alert app is hard to track — but that might be the necessary tradeoff for privacy - 03:10

Wednesday th 12th of August 2020

How spotting right whales from space could help save them - 12:33

Broken cable damages giant radio telescope in Puerto Rico - 10:10

Firefox owner Mozilla laying off 250 staff, including some in Canada - 09:11

Mauritius seeks compensation as oil spill cleanup continues - 09:11

'Quite dire': Fraser River sockeye salmon run expected to be worst ever recorded - 06:10

Tuesday th 11th of August 2020

Singapore crushes ivory from around 300 elephants to deter illegal trade - 09:30

Russia approves coronavirus vaccine before final clinical trials are completed - 09:30

Yukon First Nation, hunting groups at odds over moose hunting - 08:30

Nunavut greenhouse could teach scientists how to grow food in outer space - 08:30

Dwarf planet Ceres is an 'ocean world,' NASA finds - 06:40

Showdown between Split Lip and The Boss, 2 of Banff's most notorious grizzlies, caught on camera - 06:10

Early sightings of Atlantic salmon in Fundy National Park an encouraging sign - 06:10

Monday th 10th of August 2020

Girl, 7, stung by Portuguese man-of-war at Lawrencetown Beach - 11:40

Arctic Energy Alliance, City of Yellowknife team up to make homes more energy-efficient - 09:00

How Vancouver plans to cool down the hottest parts of the city amid global climate change - 08:10

Have you spotted a satellite dish on a beaver dam? Here's why it's happening - 07:12

Alberta signs on to help develop nuclear reactor technology - 06:50

Collapsed Arctic ice shelf adds 'exclamation point' to dire climate trends, say scientists - 06:50

Melting glaciers will bring instability to more than 1 million Albertans' water supply - 06:50

Long distance swimmer gets close-up look at pod of orcas in West Vancouver - 06:20

Researchers race to protect Nova Scotia's hemlocks from invasive pest - 06:20

Sunday th 9th of August 2020

Annual Perseid meteor shower peaks this week: How you can catch some 'shooting stars' - 03:20

Saturday th 8th of August 2020

Painting 'en game air': Artists turning to video game landscapes for inspiration during pandemic - 03:10

Friday th 7th of August 2020

What the Beirut blast radius would look like if it occurred in Canadian port cities - 15:40

This fossil hunter wants to take you where the wild things were - 13:20

NASA drops 'colonial' nicknames for distant cosmic objects - 13:20

Trump issues bans on China's TikTok, WeChat, stoking tension with Beijing - 06:20

Fraudsters create fake Canadian company, steal foreign website to victimize job seekers - 06:20

Urban beekeeping can be bad for wild bees - 06:20

'You really want to be prepared': Canadian Hurricane Centre calls for extra storm readiness - 05:51

Storage of ammonium nitrate in Canada so tightly regulated that a Beirut-like blast unlikely here - 05:51

Thursday th 6th of August 2020

Atlantic hurricane forecasts for the coming weeks revised — and not in a good way - 14:37

U.S. Senate bans TikTok on government devices - 14:10

Provinces not moving fast enough to assess, mitigate flood risk, report says - 13:40

Shane Gross: Capturing humanity’s impact on ocean life - 06:30

Not-so-wily coyote found with head stuck in glass jar - 06:30

Shark sighting a surprise for St. Martins kayakers - 06:30

Hiroshima survivors mark 75th anniversary of world's first nuclear attack - 06:30

What you need to know about B.C.'s so-called murder hornets - 06:30

How microbes could help clean up Nova Scotia's abandoned mines - 06:30

Wednesday th 5th of August 2020

Facebook deletes a Trump post for the 1st time, citing misinformation - 20:00

What is ammonium nitrate, and how did it cause such a devastating explosion in Beirut? - 18:30

Instagram launches TikTok copycat, which it is calling Reels - 14:41

TikTok takes steps to curb misinformation ahead of U.S. election - 11:57

Indigenous leaders 'losing faith' in environmental protection amid budget cuts - 09:40

Hurricane Isaias spawns tornadoes along U.S. East Coast, at least 4 dead - 06:30

Spectre of atomic bomb still looms over N.W.T. community 75 years after Hiroshima - 06:00

COVID Alert app could result in some people being ID'd - 06:00