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Acadia University will soon be home to the first tick-breeding research centre in Canada. The team will test repellents and research tick-borne diseases, but it will also breed thousands of the pests to send to researchers around the world.

There's been a new comet in the sky over the past few weeks, but now is the prime time to see it for yourself.

With over 200 different certifications to her name, Phoebe the pug could -- in theory -- safely drive a truck, steer a boat and operate a forklift, to name a few.

An Islander discovered a large fossil footprint along the shores of P.E.I.'s Hillsborough Bay. It's believed to date back to the Permian Period, before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and experts say it may belong to a Pareiasaur.

CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks asked some of Canada's leading scientists to imagine what the next half-century might bring. The science show reached a milestone this month: 50 years on the air.

The Nova Scotia government has granted a lease for more than 80 hectares of land and water on the province's Eastern Shore to a group that wants to create North America's first whale sanctuary.

A U.S. company is proposing to 'sell sunlight after dark,' saying it could help power solar farms and provide access to light in emergency situations. Astronomers are not only concerned about what this will do to the night sky, but also to wildlife.

"Given the seriousness of the injury, it will be important to monitor the animal's healing progress," a DFO spokesperson said.

There's a toad invasion underfoot. No, really. According to a new study that analyzed the DNA of 124 species of toads, you can now find them on six of seven continents with a colony most-recently spreading fast in East Africa.

In 2007, a massive landslide crashed into B.C.'s Lake Chehalis, triggering a tsunami that surged 38 metres up the shore -- one of the most dramatic inland waves ever recorded. CBC's Johanna Wagstaffe looks into how scientists were able to reconstruct ...