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The barn owl, one of Canada’s most endangered owls, isn’t native to Alberta and is considered extremely rare anywhere in the province, which is why wildlife photographers were shocked when one made a surprise appearance in a Calgary park. Source link

Why are bridges first to get slippery, even before a snowfall? Watch to learn as CBC’s Riley Laychuk explains why. Source link

Canadian-born researcher Joanna Harper has been studying the ways hormone therapy makes a difference in transgender athletes’ performance for nearly two decades. Her most recent study, which she was working on in the United States, lost its funding bringing her back to Canada. Source link

In 2014, the term “polar vortex” burst on the scene across Canada and the U.S. as temperatures plunged. In some places, it was colder than it was on Mars. Well, get ready to hear more about it. Source link

While the Maritimes suffered through a long drought this year, Sable Island didn’t have the same problem. That’s because the island located 290 kilometres southeast of Halifax has a large underground supply of fresh water. Source link

The Community-Oriented Coastal Observatory needs samples from around the province, so they’re recruiting volunteers just like them to help with this project. Source link

The Point Lepreau Bird Observatory is marking 30 years of monitoring the seabird migration in a location perfectly positioned to capture the entire migration pattern of more than 100 different species. Source link

The Alberta government is considering using AI technology to write a law for the first time, eyeing a forthcoming piece of whisky legislation as its test case. Source link

Downtown Dawson Creek isn’t where you might expect to take a tour of the history of the Space Race. But hidden inside an autobody shop, space historian Nick Proach has filled the city’s newest museum with dozens of scale model rockets that have appeared in museums, world fair exhibits, and even aboard NASA spacecraft. Source link

Two researchers at Western University in London, Ont., are studying how to improve the way artificial intelligence understands toddlers’ speaking patterns. They’re recruiting preschool-age children to examine how they speak and use that data to train an AI model. Source link