By Erica Sawula  Would you purposely expose yourself to arsenic, radium or asbestos, knowing that all of these substances cause cancer? Indoor tanning beds are just as likely to cause cancer,...

Picture an animal about the size of a crow, that walks on two legs, and is covered in black, shiny plumage. Long, aerodynamic plumes cover the animal’s arms and legs,...

By Grace Hunter  Picture an animal about the size of a crow, that walks on two legs, and is covered in black, shiny plumage. Long, aerodynamic plumes cover the animal's arms...

By Teresa Branch-SmithEight years after Nicolas Cage changed his identity with a face transplant in the 1997 movie Face Off, life began to imitate art. The results are truly remarkable...

By Lucas Tessaro  Cramming for an exam. A long night of last-minute learning. We’ve all been there. Many of us even scraped through the exam, but did we really learn anything? Probably...

“It sure had lots of teeth,” said a 12-year-old girl about the 38-centimetre-long fish she caught in the Otonabee river near Peterborough in 1998.Three Ministry of Natural Resources biologists didn’t...

Hours after Derek Boogaard was found dead, a researcher from Boston called his parents to ask for the hockey enforcer's brain.Boogaard, a notorious fighter and enforcer, played first for the...

We all curse it, many enjoy it, but few of us think about it. Snow has been puzzling physicists for generations and if you pay attention to it this winter,...

What do David Bowie, Spongebob Squarepants and the Eye of Sauron from the Lord of the Rings have in common?Weird though it may seem, all three had the honour —...

You’ve grown by the height of a coffee cup, your face is puffed, your heart is shrinking and yet you’re exercising for more than two hours a day! Who are...