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'She's perfect and she's beautiful': Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields
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'She's perfect and she's beautiful': Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields

News/Canada/North: The Yukon government's paleontologist is calling a frozen baby woolly mammoth found this week near Dawson City the 'most important discovery in paleontology in North America.'
Would you eat invasive carp? What about 'copi'?
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Would you eat invasive carp? What about 'copi'?

News/Canada/Windsor: You're in the mood for fish and your server suggests a dish of invasive carp. 'Ugh,' you might say. But how about broiled copi, fresh from the Mississippi River?
Woolly mammoth shoulder blade, tusk, among ice age fossils found by Yukon paleontology team
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Woolly mammoth shoulder blade, tusk, among ice age fossils found by Yukon paleontology team

News/Canada/North: Yukon paleontologist Grant Zazula and his team have already found the shoulder blade of a woolly mammoth, a complete tusk, some leg bones, a steppe bison, some horses and some caribou.
Early risers get a chance to see a rare grouping of planets in the morning sky
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Early risers get a chance to see a rare grouping of planets in the morning sky

News/Science: If you’re a morning person, there’s a treat in the sky before sunrise: five of the sky’s brightest planets all lined up among the stars.
Where are all the Black astronomers and physicists? Racism, isolation keeping many away
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Where are all the Black astronomers and physicists? Racism, isolation keeping many away

News/Science: While Canada produces many talented astronomers, astrophysicists and physicists, few of them are Black. The question is: Why?
Meet the husband-wife duo competing with SpaceX to send cargo to the moon
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Meet the husband-wife duo competing with SpaceX to send cargo to the moon

News/Canada/Toronto: Saharnaz Safari and Sohrab Haghighat, spoke to CBC News about their company SpaceRyde alongside Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian astronaut to live aboard the International Space Station. Their goal: to make history as the first orbital rocket to launch from a balloon.
U.S. funds $7.5M study with Canadian scientists to help predict marine fog
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U.S. funds $7.5M study with Canadian scientists to help predict marine fog

News/Canada/Nova Scotia: Tonnes of atmospheric measuring equipment are being flown to Sable Island for the fog project commissioned by the U.S. Office of Naval Research.
World's largest recorded freshwater fish caught in Cambodia
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World's largest recorded freshwater fish caught in Cambodia

News/Science: The world's largest recorded freshwater fish, a giant stingray, has been caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia, according to scientists from the Southeast Asian nation and the United States.
Retired Fredericton engineer's ultralight plane powered by electricity
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Retired Fredericton engineer's ultralight plane powered by electricity

News/Canada/New Brunswick: Ray St-Laurent owns an electric car. And an electric lawnmower. And an electric snowblower. “Whatever is new and neat” tends to get the retired mechanical engineer's interest.
Moth wings could inspire a new generation of soundproofing material
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Moth wings could inspire a new generation of soundproofing material

Radio: Bob McDonald's blog: The moth's wings can absorb up to 87% of incoming sound, a handy trait when being hunted by a bat
Canada's nuclear waste agency says it was scammed out of $300K meant for First Nation in Ontario
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Canada's nuclear waste agency says it was scammed out of $300K meant for First Nation in Ontario

News/Canada/London: Canada's nuclear waste agency says someone posing as an Indigenous chief convinced agency officials to put nearly $300,00 into a private bank account, money that was meant for a community development on a First Nation in Ontario.
Small backyard homes could offer both housing and climate relief
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Small backyard homes could offer both housing and climate relief

News/Science: In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we examine the growth of 'garden suites' in urban areas and a trio of lethal lakes in central Africa.
Canadian satellite detects huge burst of methane from Russian coal mine
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Canadian satellite detects huge burst of methane from Russian coal mine

News/Science: A Canadian company that uses satellites to spot sources of methane emissions around the globe said Wednesday that it detected one of the largest artificial releases of the potent greenhouse gas ever seen, coming from a coal mine in Russia earlier this year.
SpaceX one step closer to launching giant Starship
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SpaceX one step closer to launching giant Starship

News/Science: SpaceX cleared a key hurdle Monday for its plan to launch a gigantic, futuristic rocketship into orbit from Texas.
Historic flooding forces Yellowstone National Park to get visitors out, close gates
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Historic flooding forces Yellowstone National Park to get visitors out, close gates

News/World: More than 10,000 visitors were ordered out of Yellowstone as unprecedented flooding tore through the northern half of the nation's oldest national park.
European space telescope releases unprecedented details about our galaxy
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European space telescope releases unprecedented details about our galaxy

News/Science: The European Space Agency has released a trove of data on almost 2 billion stars in the Milky Way, collected by its Gaia mission in an effort to create the most accurate and complete map of our galaxy.
Blood-sucking, snake-like fish arrive in New Brunswick waterways to spawn
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Blood-sucking, snake-like fish arrive in New Brunswick waterways to spawn

News/Canada/New Brunswick: It's spawning season for the vampire-like sea lamprey. That means they're heading back to New Brunswick waterways to reproduce and die.
Tiny satellite built in Nova Scotia ready for 1st mission to space
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Tiny satellite built in Nova Scotia ready for 1st mission to space

News/Canada/Nova Scotia: Students with the Dalhousie Space Systems Lab have constructed the first satellite made in Nova Scotia and it will soon be launched into space — an Atlantic Canadian first.
Hopes for a new generation of electric hydrofoils — a tech with Canadian roots
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Hopes for a new generation of electric hydrofoils — a tech with Canadian roots

Radio/Quirks & Quarks: Bob McDonald's blog: Swedish study finds hydrofoil technology could reduce consumption of fossil fuels used in ships by no less than 80 per cent.
Small space rock hits $10B James Webb Space Telescope
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Small space rock hits $10B James Webb Space Telescope

News/Science: A tiny meteoroid struck the newly deployed James Webb Space Telescope in May, knocking one of its gold-plated mirrors out of alignment but not changing the orbiting observatory's schedule to become fully operational shortly, NASA said on Wednesday.