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Cybercriminals are set to become information dealers in the coming year, according to the top 10 cyber security predictions for 2015 by Websense Security Labs. Websense principal security analyst Carl Leonard said criminals will use the sale of credit card numbers to fund the collection of a broader range of data about victims.

Bipolar disease is a “prevalent, complex, and hard-to-treat illness [leading] to extreme and erratic shifts of mood, thinking, and behavior, with a very high risk of suicide as well as increased risks of dying from common medical disorders,” write Guest Editors Dost Öngür, MD, PhD, of McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass., and Ayşegül Yildiz, MD, of Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey. …

Large plant-munching dinosaurs used a number of tactics, including kicking, biting and running for their lives, to avoid becoming the dinner of a dino like T. rex, a new study finds.

Lake Muskoka, near Gravenhurst, Ontario, is yielding up a 70-year-old secret. Canadian Armed Forces personnel began bringing the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Northrop Nomad aircraft #3521, which crashed in the lake on December 13, 1940, to the surface.

A new study has found that men who have multiple sexual partners are a third less likely to develop prostate cancer.

Cell service in Vancouver, along with Toronto and Montreal, is faster and steadier than it is stateside, says a new report from RootMetrics, a U.S.-based research firm. But Vancouver in particular has a, get this, “3G sticky” problem.

Low back pain can negatively affect men and women’s sex lives. In a new study, a team of researchers from the University of Waterloo examined spinal movements during sex in order to find the positions that are the most ideal for women suffering from different kinds of low back pain.

Researchers from Harvard Medical School have discovered a way of turning stem cells into killing machines to fight brain cancer.

Researchers are officially debunking the myth that megalodon sharks still exist. The whale-eating monsters became extinct about 2.6 million years ago.

A recent discovery has shown that the Earth’s magnetic reversal could happen much quicker than had been expected. US scientists say the North and South poles can swap their positions in less than a century, which would carry some danger for humans.

New restrictions have made it difficult for scientists around the globe to collaborate with Canadian government scientists. In response, more than 800 scientists from 32 countries have signed a letter urging Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper to “remove excessive and burdensome restrictions and barriers to scientific communication and collaboration faced by Canadian government scientists.” The letter was published as an advertisement today in the …