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Ashley Roll's mother is reluctant to have her come to the phone. She's worried that answering questions will take too much out of the 19-year- old, but Ashley says she's [...]

They're everywhere. Turn on the TV, pick up a newspaper or magazine, and the stories leap out: stem cells to heal the body's failing nervous system; transplanted wombs; the smaller-than-small [...]

They seemed to emerge from nowhere. Hockey louts in minivans: moms and pops and gap-toothed kiddies with eyes as wide as toonies, cruising the downtown streets, waving flags and blowing [...]

The detective who investigated Jessica Weber's death is reluctant to say much about how she died. An Ontario court will decide that after a preliminary hearing expected this spring. Jessica's [...]

Surveys show that many Canadians remain leery of punching in a credit- card number to buy a book off the Net. So if Amazon.com still makes you blanch, how about [...]

In a closely guarded room in an industrial complex by Toronto's international airport, racks stacked with hundreds of powerful central processors stand erect like faceless sentinels. The rush of air [...]

In a cavernous printing plant -- walls hospital white, floors spanking clean -- a German press as big as a city bus devours three desktop- sized sheets of paper every [...]

Most people use bank machines to get cash, or maybe pay a few bills. But NCR Corp. expects the ATM of the future to become a 'physical fulfilment device.' You'll [...]

This Christmas, no doubt some Canadians have given their highly caffeinated loved ones the Starbucks Card, a loyalty ploy with a difference. It's part of a growing trend among retailers [...]

Special effects are a Hollywood staple, and 3-D software like Maya makes them seem effortless. While Maya, created by Toronto-based Alias|Wavefront, is widely recognized for films like Pearl Harbor and [...]

Clearly, it's not about practical transportation: if you're travelling long distances, you might be better off carrying it than riding it. Comfort? Certainly not. But it's undeniable: the minibike has [...]

Construction of the International Space Station will require dozens of space walks, yet NASA doesn't fully understand the danger posed by the sun's powerful radiation, says Ian Thomson, president of [...]

On an unusually warm weekday morning in early October, Norma Petitti, lean and smartly outfitted in a sporty skirt and blouse, takes a quick last swig from her coffee before [...]

Zsuzsa Harnad, who turns 84 this week, was pleased with the question. Harnad had just finished giving a class in t'ai chi ch'uan at a Montreal YMCA. A novice student [...]

Doing something for the first time, especially if it requires losing tens of millions of dollars, should be nerve-racking. But Martha Fusca, chief executive of Stornoway Communications LP, a newcomer [...]

After the attack on the World Trade Center, concern over personal security has risen in all aspects of our lives. Driving is no exception. A Calgary firm, CSI Wireless Inc., [...]

Engineer Charles Bull was just sitting down at his desk on the 73rd floor of the World Trade Center's north tower, logging on to his e-mail system to start his [...]

It's hard to imagine any skyscraper surviving what the World Trade Center was subjected to. Each massive 110-storey tower initially bore the full brunt of a Boeing 767 passenger jet [...]

Stolen shopping carts are mainstays of the junk that litters towns and cities, discarded on lawns, half-submerged in creeks, or dumped on their sides in alleys. These stray carts, worth [...]

How, you might ask, could anyone possibly improve on ice cream? It's already cool and creamy, a delicious distraction on hot summer days. Still, researchers at Ice Biotech Inc. in [...]

First impressions can be deceiving. Approaching Saint John, N.B., the pilot of the small commuter jet draws passengers' attention to the 'Reversing Falls' on the Saint John River where it [...]

Good ad slogans stick in your head, whether you want them to or not. Ones like 'At Speedy, you're a somebody,' 'Harvey's makes your hamburger a beautiful thing,' and Wonderbra's [...]

Summer is a lousy time to have to contend with snow. But that's one of the challenges facing scientists from the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The [...]

The moment when John Lymer's pager went off on May 17 is etched in his memory. The chief engineer for Canadarm2, Canada's vital contribution to the international space program, was [...]

The dream is coming closer. Ideally, you could use your laptop anywhere, wirelessly, and still get good network connection speeds. Montreal-based Microcell Solutions Inc. now promises that. This month, the [...]

Dawn of wireless Most people don't give a second thought to placing a wireless call, but it was a good deal more remarkable for Guglielmo Marconi, standing on Signal Hill [...]

House alarms can deter burglars, but for the homeowner who wants a little something extra, there's AlarmFog. Made by Toronto-based security service AlarmForce, the $300 device creates a whiteout in [...]

Those hand-held gizmos that tell you where you are in the world -- Global Positioning System units -- those are for Himalayan mountain climbers, right? True. And now, also for [...]

Companies competing for digital business are converging on your home. The domestic battleground for your cable, telephone and Internet accounts has companies scrambling to find the best way to bundle [...]

Knee-replacement surgery is no fun at all. The grisly reality is that an orthopedist must carve open your knee to saw away the top of your shinbone and the bottom [...]

Don't like the packaging? Eat it, buddy. Literally. So say Marc-Antoine Joly, Phuong Nguyen and Eugene Mohareb. As part of their undergraduate studies, the three biological engineers from the University [...]

It's not much to look at from the outside -- a bland 10-storey office tower in St. Catharines, Ont. The small foyer is deserted, with no hint of who works [...]

It's a quintessentially Canadian way of getting into space. One of the first computer simulations produced by Critical Mass Labs of Montreal involved a heavy-duty tractor equipped with powerful claws [...]

Hmm. Cellphones are hugely popular all over the world. So are Palm handheld computers. How about combining them, so busy technophiles can organize their lives while keeping in touch, all [...]

Not water again. Seven innocent Ontarians died in Walkerton last year, and people said that was a wake-up call. But it has happened again, this time in Saskatchewan. Tests have [...]

Summer is a time for long vacation drives and, almost surely, paying more for gasoline. But Montreal-based Terralogix Inc. thinks it has a partial solution -- its TerraClean engine treatment, [...]

When it's warm and sunny, a lot of students would rather be outdoors than punching a keyboard inside. At Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, they can have it both ways. [...]

Just when you thought there was one place e-mail couldn't reach you, they've found it. On a trial basis, passengers aboard some Air Canada flights have been able to get [...]

It seems appropriate for the original Canadarm to be lying now in several pieces. After 20 years of stellar service, the off-world champion of the zero-gravity power lift is temporarily [...]

A friendly germ killer Like a lot of expectant couples, Sam DeAth and his wife worried whether their home in Hamilton, and all the household products in it, was safe [...]

Everybody seems to have them. Airlines, department stores, gas stations, credit cards -- nearly all feature some sort of loyalty program, where buying something earns the consumer points or miles [...]

Millions of North Americans go to the movies every weekend without giving it a second thought, but millions more are denied the pleasure. They are the deaf and hearing impaired, [...]

Tory Weber spent more than two years on a Calgary construction site in the early 1980s hauling heavy wheelbarrows filled with cement over planks and scaffolding. But there was a [...]

Time is money, even at the gas station. Bent on attracting busy drivers, Shell Canada Ltd. has gone beyond pay-at-the-pump card swiping. The oil giant has just introduced easyPay, an [...]

Getting enough people to volunteer can be a difficult task, even in major cities. So Randy Tyler, volunteer co-ordinator and Web master at Macdonald Youth Services in Winnipeg, decided to [...]