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The study, published in this month's edition of The Condor: Ornithological Applications, suggests that the din of industrial activity drowns out important parts of their songs, which may include such vital details as a bird's name or how fit it is for mating.

An international summary of five year's worth of research on Arctic climate change concludes the top of the world is getting warmer faster than anyone thought.

Sara Seager has pledged to spend the rest of her life searching for another Earth among the billions of stars that inhabit our night sky.

The rich social interaction and highly evolved brains of some whales are linked in a kind of evolutionary feedback loop, a newly published paper suggests.

The storm destroyed virtually everything on the island, stripping it of vegetation, wrecking the monkeys' drinking troughs and crushing the piers that workers use to bring in bags of monkey chow.

Researchers in Massachusetts say white sharks appear to venture offshore farther, with more frequency and at greater depths than previously known in the Atlantic.

In the clinical trial, 61 per cent of participants developed full-blown MS in that time frame, as predicted. But that dropped to 33 per cent in those given minocycline, a drug used to treat acne.

The federal government is hoping a new research framework will help doctors better diagnose and treat the ballooning number of Lyme disease cases across Canada.

At first glance, their experiments look like they belong in a horrific, modern-day Mary Shelley novel.

Ocean research on Canada's East Coast received a major boost Tuesday when the federal government announced nearly $94 million in funding over seven years for a new institute based at Dalhousie.

Some University of Calgary professors say they are "downright scared" to speak out about oil and gas companies. "It's hard when you live in a company town to throw stones at the company."