A team from the University of Toronto has created a new way for health-care workers to monitor COVID-19 patients — without having to set foot in their hospital rooms.  It all began about two weeks ago when a call came from Mount Sinai Hospital asking the university’s engineering department to figure out a way to…

The coronavirus pandemic is expected to drive carbon dioxide emissions down six per cent this year, the head of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday, in what would be the biggest yearly drop since World War II. “This crisis has had an impact on the emissions of greenhouse gases,” WMO Secretary General Petteri Taalas…

Facebook wants a judge to toss out the federal privacy watchdog’s finding that the social media giant’s lax practices allowed personal data to be used for political purposes. Privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien’s probe “was neither impartial nor independent, and lacked procedural fairness,” Facebook alleges in a submission to the Federal Court of Canada. The company’s…

The novel coronavirus was engineered in a lab using HIV. Stem cells are a potent weapon against the new pandemic. People with blood type A are more susceptible to COVID-19. None of these “discoveries” have been proven. But all have been widely disseminated. They’re examples of what many scientists are beginning to fear is an…

Scientists have discovered that a comet called 2I/Borisov — only the second interstellar object ever detected passing through the solar system — is surprisingly different in its composition from comets hailing from our celestial neighbourhood. Gas coming off 2I/Borisov contained high amounts of carbon monoxide — far more than comets formed in our solar system — indicating the object…

About 300 light-years from Earth lies a planet that is unlike any other ever discovered: one that is similar to our home both in terms of size and temperature and that lies within its host star’s habitable zone. The planet is called Kepler-1649c. It is just 1.06 times larger than Earth and receives about 75…