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YOSHIKAWA, Japan -- It's drawing time at this suburban nursery school in Japan, but instead of crayons, tiny fingers are tapping on colours on iPad screens and taking selfies. Digital schooling has arrived in this nation long known for its zealous commitment to "three R's" education. Source

BILLINGS, Mont. -- A U.S. judge ordered federal protections restored for grizzly bears in the Northern Rocky Mountains on Monday, a move that blocks the first grizzly hunts planned in the Lower 48 states in almost three decades. Source

LUNENBURG, N.S. -- Researchers looking for a possible great white shark mating site off Nova Scotia have tagged their first shark in Canadian waters. The official Twitter account of the Ocearch research organization posted a photo on Monday afternoon of the male shark, named Nova, that was tagged off the south shore of Nova Scotia. Source

Concordia University's engineering faculty is making history with its new name — the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science — the first in Canada to be named after a woman, the university says. Gina Parveneh Cody is the former executive chair and principal shareholder of CCI Group, a large engineering firm in Toronto. Source

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS, N.Y. -- A race by U.S. tech companies to build a new generation of powerful "quantum computers" could get a US$1.3 billion boost from Congress, fueled in part by lawmakers' fear of growing competition from China. Source

For some, the mere sight of a slithering venomous snake with one head is enough to make their hair stand on end. But last week, a northern Virginia woman found one in her backyard with two heads. Source

The International Space Station is helping to track animal movements in a bid to predict natural disasters before they happen. Spacewalking cosmonauts set up an antenna for tracking birds on Earth and sent a series of tiny satellites flying from the International Space Station last month. Source

Two tiny robots dispatched to the surface of an asteroid from a Japanese spacecraft have sent home their first photos. The Japan Space Exploration Agency confirmed Saturday that the two Minerva-II-1 rovers had landed successfully after being released from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft a day earlier. Source

Waves of Change is a CBC series exploring the single-use plastic we're discarding, and why we need to clean up our act. You can be part of the community discussion by joining our Facebook group. When Geneviève Philibert et Alexandre Normandeau go diving, they take an unusual item with them — a mesh bag. Source

On the day of the grand opening of the largest bitcoin mining project in the country, the weather was partly cloudy and 15 C. On a Friday afternoon like this one, the new facility uses as much electricity as all of Medicine Hat, Alta. Source