As It Happens6:41Food banks across Canada are begging to be put out of business Josh Smee imagines a future in which food banks no longer […]
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Scientist scans her own brain 75 times to study the effects of birth control pills
Carina Heller has found a creative way to donate her brain to science — while she’s still using it. The University of Minnesota neuroscientist wanted […]
Why your brain could be the next frontier of data privacy
Imagine a future in which a wearable device tells advertisers when you’re in the mood for chocolate, or lets your employer know when you’re not […]
Jerky-like skin of a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth could change what we know about ancient DNA
The leathery strip of skin from a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth sporting a mullet-like hairdo isn’t much to look at, says geneticist Olga Dudchenko — but the information it […]
This man wants to break the Guinness World Record for holding the most world records
Most toilet paper rolls balanced on the head. Most marshmallows caught in the mouth. Most kiwi fruits sliced in the air with a sword in […]
‘We go everywhere together’: Man took baby goat on cross-country road trip to Edmonton
As It Happens5:59‘We go everywhere together,’ says man who took baby goat on a cross-Canada road trip Jimmy the goat may have been shunned by […]
The solar storm knocked out GPS equipment on farms — and it could happen again
Tanner Borsa was working his farm near Yellow Creek, Sask., last weekend when the Global Positioning System in his tractors stopped working. Like many farmers, […]