An artist’s reconstruction shows what Danuvius guggenmosi, the earliest ape able to walk upright, might have looked like. (Velizar Simeonovski) The remains of an ancient ape found in a Bavarian clay pit suggest that humans’ ancestors began standing upright millions of years earlier than previously thought, scientists said Wednesday. AnRead More →
For 13 years, Tim Rosso has been calling balls and strikes as an umpire in NCAA DIV 1 baseball and the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. But in the blink of a 0-1 letter-high fastball (the first pitch of the game was fouled off), his career changed. Rosso casually rightedRead More →
For the second year in a row, Nestlé and Tim Hortons were the top companies behind branded plastic bottles, coffee cups and lids and other plastic waste collected in shoreline cleanups across the country, Greenpeace Canada reported Tuesday. Starbucks, McDonald’s and the Coca-Cola Company rounded out the top five of theRead More →
Thirteen year-old Adlyn Gilbert has pushed her way the front of the stage at Queen’s Park. She’s got her backpack slung over both shoulders and she keeps checking her phone as the global climate strike gets underway in Toronto. Before long, she is listening intently to the speakers. This is her twelfthRead More →
Scientists have discovered a new species of giant salamander and concluded that the largest amphibian ever recorded was a member of that species. For a long time, scientists thought all Chinese giant salamanders belonged to a single species, Andrias davidianus. But now a genetic study of museum specimens in Canada,Read More →
Tokyo Electric Power may have to dump radioactive water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant directly into the Pacific Ocean, Japan’s environment minister said on Tuesday. After the plant was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011, Tokyo Electric (Tepco) has collected in tanks at the wrecked sites more thanRead More →
Facebook said on Tuesday its face recognition technology will now be available to all users with an option to opt out, while deciding to discontinue a related feature called Tag Suggestions. Face recognition, which was available to some Facebook users since December 2017, notifies an account holder if their profileRead More →
The largest study of its kind found new evidence that genes contribute to same-sex sexual behaviour, but it echoes research that says there are no specific genes that make people gay. The genome-wide research on DNA from nearly half a million U.S. and U.K. adults identified five genetic variants notRead More →