As Quincy Emmons and Zackery Hodgen watch the out-of-control bush fires burning in Australia, the two eastern Ontario firefighters believe they have a solution that could help douse those flames. But their new fire suppressant, developed here and patented in Canada and the United States, needs to pass stringent U.S. regulatory hurdles before it can…

Specialist firefighters have saved the world’s last remaining wild stand of a prehistoric tree from wildfires that razed forests west of Sydney, officials said Thursday. Firefighters winched from helicopters to reach the cluster of fewer than 200 Wollemi Pines in a remote gorge in the Blue Mountains a week before a massive wildlife bore down,…

As Vancouverites brave a blast of Arctic air that has brought snow, knocked out power, and spread sub-zero temperatures to the region, some of the city’s tiniest residents also need a little extra tender loving care.  The Anna’s hummingbird — named the City of Vancouver’s official bird following an online vote in 2017 — lives in…

In an undisclosed location in Toronto, Farhad Souzanchi spends his days toiling away at a computer, filling a void half a world away for a rare commodity: facts. Souzanchi runs an online platform in Persian called FactNameh (“Book of Facts”) that verifies claims made by Iran’s officials and media. For instance, before Tehran admitted to shooting down Ukraine International Airlines Flight…

Microsoft released a free software patch Tuesday to fix a major security flaw in its Windows 10 operating system. The flaw, which was discovered by the U.S. National Security Agency, could allow hackers to intercept seemingly secure communications. But rather than exploit the flaw for its own intelligence needs, the NSA tipped off Microsoft so that it…

A scanning electron micrograph shows a silicon carbide grain, about 8 micrometres in its longest dimension, from a meteorite that crashed into Australia in 1969. The image was released in Chicago on Monday. (Janaina N. Avila via REUTERS) A meteorite that crashed into rural southeastern Australia in a fireball in 1969 contained the oldest material…