Under a cloud of complaints, investigations and lawsuits, a controversial Vancouver cryptocurrency exchange has shut its doors with more than $16 million owing to customers. The B.C. Securities Commission (BCSC) obtained an order last week appointing an interim receiver to oversee the Einstein Exchange after filing a petition in B.C. Supreme Court claiming exchange founder Michael Ongun Gokturk…

The journey of NASA’s dauntless Voyager 2 spacecraft through our solar system’s farthest reaches has given scientists new insight into a poorly understood distant frontier: the unexpectedly distinct boundary marking where the sun’s energetic influence ends and interstellar space begins. The U.S. space agency previously announced that Voyager 2, the second human-made object ever to…

For more than two years, President Donald Trump has talked about pulling the United States out of the landmark Paris climate agreement. Starting Monday he finally can do something about it. Even then, though, the withdrawal process takes a year and wouldn’t become official until at least the day after the 2020 presidential election. In…

A group of B.C. researchers have returned from a trip along the coast with a trove of new photos, video and data gathered by studying killer whales from above. The team of scientists from the University of B.C. spent August and September using drones and other tools to observe the feeding behaviour of northern and…

Climate change is fuelling a rise in people getting sick from food-borne illnesses in Canada and around the world, says a Canadian food safety expert. The disparate causes include increased flooding that is washing contaminants like salmonella, Listeria and E. coli onto crops, and rising ocean temperatures that allow bacteria to flourish in shellfish. “As the planet becomes…

The death of a 40-year-old male North Atlantic right whale found floating in U.S. waters was caused by entanglement in Canadian fishing gear. That is the finding of a necropsy performed by the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society. The whale, called Snake Eyes, was named by researchers for two bright white scars on the front of his…