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Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts-off from the Kennedy Space Center ...

(The Canadian Press) — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:15:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts-off from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/John Raoux)

A woman plays a slot machine at the Island View Casino in Gulfport, ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:23:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A woman plays a slot machine at the Island View Casino in Gulfport, Mississippi November 9, 2009. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

Elderly women exercise with wooden dumbbells during a health ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:33:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Elderly women exercise with wooden dumbbells during a health promotion event to mark Japan's 'Respect for the Aged Day' at a temple in Tokyo September 17, 2007. REUTERS/Issei Kato

P.E.I. is one of the worst places in Canada to have a heart ...

(CBC) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:46:33 GMT

(CBC) - P.E.I. is one of the worst places in Canada to have a heart attack, according to a University of Calgary study.

Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk, right, laughs as Rhys Dunnill-Jones, ...

(The Canadian Press) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:42:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk, right, laughs as Rhys Dunnill-Jones, age 8, makes a face during an autograph session in Calgary on Monday Feb. 8, 2010. Thirsk was in the city to officially receive his honourary degree at the University of Calgary. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Larry MacDougal

The Italian doctor whose unconventional thinking on the cause ...

(CBC) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:31:59 GMT

(CBC) - The Italian doctor whose unconventional thinking on the cause of multiple sclerosis is visiting North America to drum up interest in testing the idea.

The Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off from launch pad 39-A at ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:09:00 GMT

(Reuters) - The Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off from launch pad 39-A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, February 8, 2010. REUTERS/Steve Nesius

The space shuttle Endeavour is seen shortly after the rotating ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:25:00 GMT

(Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour is seen shortly after the rotating service structure is rolled back on February 6, 2010 at Pad 39A of the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Endeavour and the crew members of the STS-130 mission are set to launch on February 7 at 4:39 a.m. EST. REUTERS/Bill Ingalls/NASA/Handout

The Space Shuttle Endeavour sits on Pad 39-A during roll back ...

(Reuters) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:04:00 GMT

(Reuters) - The Space Shuttle Endeavour sits on Pad 39-A during roll back in preparation for Sunday's launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, February 6, 2010. REUTERS/Steve Nesius

Calgary is the best place in Canada to suffer a heart attack, ...

(CBC) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:14:20 GMT

(CBC) - Calgary is the best place in Canada to suffer a heart attack, a study carried out by scientists at the University of Calgary faculty of medicine suggests.

Children and teens with Type 1 diabetes were able to better ...

(CBC) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:33:50 GMT

(CBC) - Children and teens with Type 1 diabetes were able to better control their blood sugar using an automated system that measures glucose levels in real time than with a conventional insulin pump, researchers found.

U.S. astronaut Doug Wheelock (R), Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:14:00 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. astronaut Doug Wheelock (R), Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin (C) and U.S. astronaut Shannon Walker pose for a picture in front of a space capsule during a training session in the Star City space centre outside Moscow February 3, 2010. REUTERS/Sergei Remezov

Pregnant women and new mothers in the U.S. will be able to get ...

(CBC) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:36:57 GMT

(CBC) - Pregnant women and new mothers in the U.S. will be able to get health tips sent to their cellphones under a new government-funded program.

A combination picture of the most detailed view to date of the ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:08:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A combination picture of the most detailed view to date of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto, as constructed from multiple NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken from 2002 to 2003 are seen in these images released on February 4, 2010. Hubble reveals a complex-looking and variegated world with white, dark-orange, and charcoal-black terrain. The overall color is believed to be a result of ultraviolet radiation from the distant Sun breaking up methane that is present on Pluto's surface, leaving behind a dark, molasses-colored, carbon-rich residue. This series of pictures took four years and 20 computers operating continuously and simultaneously to accomplish. REUTERS/NASA, ESA, and M. Buie (Southwest Research Institute)/Handout

A Vietnamese boy brought to Canada in 2007 to have a giant growth ...

(CBC) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:43:10 GMT

(CBC) - A Vietnamese boy brought to Canada in 2007 to have a giant growth removed from his face was honoured Wednesday at a celebration of his transformation in Canada and his upcoming return to Vietnam.

A simulation of a detection of the Higgs boson particle in an ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:06:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A simulation of a detection of the Higgs boson particle in an image courtesy of CERN. REUTERS/Handout

Scientists look at a computer screen at the control centre of ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:12:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Scientists look at a computer screen at the control centre of the CERN in Geneva September 10, 2008. REUTERS/Fabrice Coffrini/Pool

Some severely obese people are missing a sest of genes, a new ...

(CBC) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:02:28 GMT

(CBC) - Some severely obese people are missing a sest of genes, a new study has found.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, listens to his ...

(The Canadian Press) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:51:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, listens to his Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi, as he looks at engine of a domestically-built satellite booster rocket. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

The International Space Station is visible against the Earth's ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:59:00 GMT

(Reuters) - The International Space Station is visible against the Earth's horizon and the blackness of space in this image photographed November 25, 2009. REUTERS/NASA Handout

The object known as P/2010 A2 in an image taken last week by ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:16:00 GMT

(Reuters) - The object known as P/2010 A2 in an image taken last week by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. REUTERS/Handout

The towering 327-foot-tall Ares I-X rocket (R) moves away from ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:02:00 GMT

(Reuters) - The towering 327-foot-tall Ares I-X rocket (R) moves away from the Vehicle Assembly Building for launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida October 20, 2009. REUTERS/NASA/Handout

A report on drug use in prisons urges the federal government ...

(CBC) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:02:30 GMT

(CBC) - A report on drug use in prisons urges the federal government to set up needle exchange programs for inmates.

The DragonLab in orbit. President Barack Obama has killed NASA's ...

(The Canadian Press) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:01:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - The DragonLab in orbit. President Barack Obama has killed NASA's $100 billion plans to return astronauts to the moon. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/SpaceX

A 12-year-old boy is in a vegetative state after having his ...

(CBC) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:24:51 GMT

(CBC) - A 12-year-old boy is in a vegetative state after having his tonsils removed at the Winnipeg Children's Hospital.

Unionized workers and activists in India capitalized on Quebec's ...

(CBC) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:36:22 GMT

(CBC) - Unionized workers and activists in India capitalized on Quebec's trade mission this week to blast the province for its active role on the global asbestos market.

Charles 'Pete' Conrad Jr. stands with the U.S. flag on the lunar ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:42:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Charles 'Pete' Conrad Jr. stands with the U.S. flag on the lunar surface during the 1969 Apollo 12 mission. REUTERS/NASA/Handout

There is no need to counsel women taking methadone not to become ...

(CBC) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:53:13 GMT

(CBC) - There is no need to counsel women taking methadone not to become pregnant, says a national group of doctors that works with pregnant women with addictions.

A full moon is seen from Ombaka Stadium in Benguela in this ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:19:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A full moon is seen from Ombaka Stadium in Benguela in this January 28, 2010 file photo. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

This undated handout photo provided by SpaceX shows the liftoff ...

(The Canadian Press) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:47:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - This undated handout photo provided by SpaceX shows the liftoff of the Falcon 1. In its new budget to be released Monday, Feb. 1, 2010, the Obama administration proposes spending billions of dollars to encourage private companies to build, launch and operate spacecraft for NASA and others. NASA already started an early version of this last year with $50 million in stimulus money. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/SpaceX)

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward ...

(The Canadian Press) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:37:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

This NASA file image, dated July 20, 1969, shows one of the ...

(Reuters) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:50:00 GMT

(Reuters) - This NASA file image, dated July 20, 1969, shows one of the first footprints of Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin on the moon. The Apollo 11 crew consisted of astronauts Neil Armstrong, who was the Mission Commander and the first man to step on the moon, Aldrin, who was the Lunar Module Pilot, and Michael Collins, who was the Command Module pilot. REUTERS/NASA/Handout

In this July 20, 1969 file photo, astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, ...

(The Canadian Press) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:07:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - In this July 20, 1969 file photo, astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., lunar module pilot, descends steps of Lunar Module ladder as he prepares to walk on the moon. A California preservation panel has taken the unusual step of naming the Apollo 11 moon landing site as a state historical resource, according to a report Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/NASA, File)

A Saskatchewan doctor whose work in radiology was found lacking ...

(CBC) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:10:36 GMT

(CBC) - A Saskatchewan doctor whose work in radiology was found lacking cannot practise until he meets qualification standards, the College of Physicians and Surgeons for the province says.

A cane toad sits inside a plastic bag at a billabong located ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:34:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A cane toad sits inside a plastic bag at a billabong located 120 km (75 miles) south of Darwin May 11, 2005. REUTERS/David Gray

This Oct. 2005 photo shows the reported tomb of Leonardo da ...

(The Canadian Press) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:56:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - This Oct. 2005 photo shows the reported tomb of Leonardo da Vinci at Saint-Hubert Chapel at the Amboise castle, in the Loire valley, western France. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Bertrand Combaldieu

The skull of the newly discovered fossil of a carnivorous dinosaur ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:25:00 GMT

(Reuters) - The skull of the newly discovered fossil of a carnivorous dinosaur called 'Haplocheirus sollers' is seen at a Chinese Academy of Sciences' workshop on the outskirts of Beijing, January 26, 2010. REUTERS/Barry Huang

Hospitals in Vancouver are making plans to ensure pregnant women ...

(CBC) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:59:04 GMT

(CBC) - Hospitals in Vancouver are making plans to ensure pregnant women don't end up giving birth while stuck in Olympic-induced traffic chaos.

Mildly overweight adults over the age of 70 were less likely ...

(CBC) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:06:08 GMT

(CBC) - Mildly overweight adults over the age of 70 were less likely to die by their 80s than those considered normal weight, Australian researchers have found.

A fan holds up a stick of celery in London May 14, 2006. REUTERS/Stephen ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:05:00 GMT

(Reuters) - A fan holds up a stick of celery in London May 14, 2006. REUTERS/Stephen Hird

Paramedics are often the first people on the scene when a police ...

(CBC) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:13:12 GMT

(CBC) - Paramedics are often the first people on the scene when a police officer is injured in the line of duty, but if a new program in Ottawa is successful, a group of paramedics will be using their skills to treat injured police dogs as well.

The space shuttle Endeavour is towed back to the orbiter processing ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:24:00 GMT

(Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour is towed back to the orbiter processing facility following its landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida July 31, 2009. REUTERS/Scott Audette