An Austrian skydiver will try to break the sound barrier during a free fall from a balloon on the edge of space later this year, The Telegraph reported Sunday.

Felix Baumgartner will be the first...

Over 6,000 individuals have applied for joining NASA's Astronaut Corps, twice as many as the US space agency usually receives, NASA said Sunday.

Late last year, NASA announced a selection procedure...

Former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief G. Madhavan Nair on Sunday said the ISRO committee's report on the Antrix-Devas deal was one-sided and had not brought out facts...

An Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) committee indicted former ISRO chief G Madhavan Nair and three other senior scientists late on Saturday night for acts of commission in Antrix-Devas...

Russian scientists are looking forward to have a man on the moon by 2020, as it launches a new campaign to select a new team of cosmonauts to train for the special task, according to reports.

The...

NASA has received 6,372 applications for its 2013 class of astronauts, double the usual number, the US space agency said.

Only in 1978, when applications surged to more than 8,000, have more people...

Ontario locomotive plant shuts down LONDON, Ont. -- The Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union is prepared to occupy the Electro-Motive plant in London if owner Caterpillar Inc. doesn't bargain a...

Jack Layton. (File Photo) OTTAWA - A byelection will be held in Jack Layton's former riding on March 12, according to the Prime Minister's Office. The riding of Toronto-Danforth, which...

Sayfildin Tahir Sharif. (HO) EDMONTON -- Finding foreign terrorists on home soil should come as no shock to Canadians who may be partially to blame, says an Edmonton professor of international...

Clint Eastwood might sound like an unlikely candidate to help investigate the evolution of the brain, but he has lent a helping hand to researchers doing just that. It turns out that brain regions...

Quebec Premier Jean Charest. (JOEL LEMAY/QMI Agency) MONTREAL - Quebec will turn 20% of its vast northern territory into internationally recognized protected areas, a plan Premier Jean Charest said...

Monkeys are our closest living relatives, whose brains have long served as an indispensable model for understanding how our own brain works. But we're separated from each other by 25 million...

This handsome African mystery bird is endemic to Ethiopia and Eritrea. It also is placed into several taxonomic families, depending upon which authority you are referring to. Can you identify this...

Florida's ecologists can be forgiven one pet hate: Burmese pythons discarded by their owners have eaten many Everglades mammals practically to...

It's time to declare a ceasefire in the fight to find out whether the constants of nature vary. What was supposed to be a new superweapon in the battle has turned into something of a damp...

Realistic rents and building upgrades are credited with filling up retail space in Hamilton's central city. There are fewer empty shops in the CBD than at any time in the past three years, with...

Everyone wants to be happy. And yet most people aren't even sure what happiness is -- much less how to get it. Unraveling that mystery is the work of smile science, a field that relies on...

A demonstrator stands in front of a soviet flag during a protest demanding fair elections in the southern Russian city of Stavropol Feb. 4, 2012. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko MOSCOW - Vladimir...

U.S. soldiers and Afghan security forces secure an area near a car bomb blast attack in the city of Kandahar Feb. 5, 2012. REUTERS/Ahmad Nadeem KABUL - A car bomb in the south Afghan city of Kandahar...

Arab League suspends Syria mission BEIRUT/UNITED NATIONS - Western and Arab countries responded with outrage on Sunday after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have...

MOSCOW - A fire broke out on Sunday at a Moscow nuclear research centre that houses a non-operational 60-year-old atomic reactor, an emergency official said, and Russia’s nuclear agency said...

Play video TORONTO -- The City of Toronto has hammered out a deal with CUPE Local 416. Talks went down to the wire and then into overtime overnight but Sunday morning, a tentative deal was reached...

A suitable climate and the easy availability of food make the Hokersar wetland reserve in Indian-administered Kashmir a favourite destination for nearly a million migratory birds every winter. This...

MOSCOW, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The crash of Russia's Mars probe Phobos-Grunt was caused by space radiation and engine failure, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said...

contest aims to advance scientific research--while demystifying it for the general public--through visualizations. The National Science Foundation and the journal...

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes books about mosses, scientific art and stream ecology that have been newly published in North America and the...

To build their battery they sandwich a solid polyethylene oxide electrolyte between a lithium iron phosphate cathode and lithium titanate anode. All of these are thermoplastic materials, which can be...

More than 100 Conservative MPs have written to David Cameron calling on him to slash subsidies for onshore wind turbines. The MPs also want planning rules changed to make it easier for local people...

Canterbury senior Nevil Parikh checks the alignment of the tower he and teammate Ryan Byer created for the Science Olympiad hosted by IPFW on Saturday. Teams from nine area schools competed in more...

New trade and investment agreements between Qatar and Nepal will allow investors to explore the "abundant potential for promoting bilateral trade, tourism and foreign direct investment,"...

The Qatar Science Leadership Programme (QSLP) is now accepting applications from Qatari postgraduates for its prestigious vocational training. Submissions are invited until May 15th, 2012, with...

IT is the ultimate parachute jump: from the edge of space, Felix Baumgartner will leap from a balloon and plummet 120,000ft.After 35 seconds he will break the sound barrier, and finally, at 5,000ft,...

More than 100 Conservatives are among MPs who have written to the prime minister calling on him to slash subsidies for onshore wind turbines. The MPs also want planning rules changed to make it...

Joan McLaren (above) says a Winnipeg funeral home picked up the body of her deceased son Adam Kowalchuk (inset) without the...

U.S. Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Colorado Springs, Colorado February 4, 2012. (REUTERS/Brian...

Imam Syed Soharwardy (closest to camera), from Calgary, was surrounded by a dozen other Islamic Supreme Council of Canada members at the Jamia Riyadhul Jannah mosque Saturday as he delivered the...

Calgary officials have decried a week-long education campaign in central Alberta that preaches harm reduction, rather than abstinence, when it comes to ecstasy....

Artemisinin is the most effective malaria treatment yet discovered. Peter Seeberger has found a way to to make it from the waste products of its current...

It is not often, in liberal north London, that you come face to face with a heretic, but Rupert Sheldrake has worn that mantle, pretty cheerfully, for 30 years now. Sitting in his book-lined study,...

Violence in Syria: Mousab Azzawi Red paint stained the Syrian embassy in Ottawa on Saturday after a Syrian neighbourhood was pulverized by relentless shelling. At least 200 people died in a...

TVA screen capture. The city’s chief of police has ordered an internal probe into allegations of use of force by an officer at a January student protest. A YouTube clip posted Feb. 1, which...

(Thinkstock.com) Ontario's proposed anti-bullying legislation received a huge boost from the Canadian Union of Public Employees on Saturday. "Bill 13 is an important step forward towards...

Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay. (Chris Roussakis/QMI Agency File) NATO forces won't let shrinking defence budgets weaken the effectiveness of the military alliance, said Defence...

That's why we must never downplay active parenting. It's not the teacher's responsibility to teach our children about money, sex, relationships, or even instil discipline. It is a...

Most of us diet sometime or other - and we want fast results. But that rarely works. Lose weight quickly and it's usually all back, plus a bit more, within three...

Students at the University of Alberta won the Guinness World Record for the most players in a dodgeball game. They had 4,979 people partcipate. (University of Alberta/HO) That's a lot of balls. ...

The remains of Fribjon Bjornson in found in a vacant home on the Nak'azdli reserve in B.C. Friday. (RCMP/HO) Police in B.C. have identified the human remains found in a vacant home on the...

Bjork told a journalist recently that she'd always wanted to be a music teacher. And so she was, in her own dazzling style, during the first show of a six-night residency at the New York Hall of...