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Putting a computer inside someone’s brain used to feel like the edge of science fiction. Today, it’s a reality. Academic and commercial groups are testing “brain-computer interface” devices to enable people with disabilities to function more independently

The China Wildlife Conservation Association said Thursday it also signed agreements with the zoo in the Spanish capital of Madrid, and is in talks with zoos in Washington, D.C., and Vienna, quelling fears that Beijing was ending its historic panda diplomacy with Western nations due to diplomatic tensions

Many conservation biologists are thinking hard about what role social media can and should play in their work

The competitors will surf the reef breaks of Margara and the twin breaks of El Pico and Rastrial in Puerto Rico

Justin Trudeau took an unprompted jab at his main political rival on Thursday over a Senate porn bill that the prime minister said could usher in a digital ID for adults who want to browse certain websites

NDP Leader Marit Stiles said a PC minister raising $24k in political donations from stakeholders shows the Ford government has returned 'to the bad old days of Liberal cash-for-access culture'

Statistics Canada says there are now more millennials than baby boomers in the country, ending the 65-year reign of the post-Second World War generation as the largest cohort in the population

The PCs raised over $150k from executives with public-private college partnerships the government saved from extinction

As Ontario prepares to expand the number of private clinics that perform publicly funded cataract surgeries, documents show those procedures form one of the most common complaints the province receives from patients about unfair billing practices

'As long as an individual can generate activity in the brain you can kind of flick the switch and control the activity'