Who knew catharsis by Instagram was a thing? Who knew this picture – of any of the millions on the photo-sharing platform – could both accurately take the temperature of the current situation and explain the immense value of journalism, at a time like this? It’s clear to me what …

Canadian universities were among those believed to be hacked by a group associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp. The United States Department of Justice said more than C$4-billion worth of intellectual property and data was stolen from American Universities alone. Nine affiliates of the Tehran-based Mabna Institute have been …

The astronomical fender-bender predicted to be the source of all the gold and bling-like elements has been analyzed in unprecedented detail, by an international team of researchers. http://scifare.com/article/kilonova-explosion-caught-on-camera-by-hubble/    

Construction of the world’s largest ground based telescope kicked off with a real lame bang. Just before 2:00pm EST, the European Southern Observatory blew the top off Cerro Armazones, a 3,000-metre-high peak in the Chilean Andes. The site will eventually house the European Extremely Large Telescope and will have a …

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. Südhof “for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells.”

Roughly 4 billion light years away in the constellation, Leo, the explosive remnant of a stellar collision between two neutron stars – predicted to be the source of all the gold and platinum in our universe – may have been caught on camera by an international team of researchers.

The skulls from some of the largest plant-eating dinosaurs to be unearthed at Dinosaur Park may help researchers understand how so many of the mega-sized creatures thrived alongside each other.

A team of Japanese researchers have created the first functioning liver-like organ using human stem cells.

While Commander Hadfield’s body readjusts to life on Earth, researchers from Canada and France are studying him so they can better understand the changes that astronauts’ bodies experience while in space.