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KATOWICE, Poland -- A growing fleet of satellites is monitoring man-made greenhouse gas emissions from space, spurred by the need to track down major sources of climate changing gases such as methane and carbon dioxide. Source

WASHINGTON -- U.S. lawmakers' grilling of Google CEO Sundar Pichai may have sounded like a broken record, but it amplified the prickly issues facing tech companies as Democrats prepare to take control of the House next month. Source

If our Google searches are any indication, Canadians can’t remember the rules of curling or how to make scalloped potatoes, but we’re pretty obsessed with sports. Google released its top trending searches of 2018 on Wednesday, revealing what people, events and other topics stood out this year from trillions of online searches. Source

Winning a Nobel Prize changed nearly everything about Donna Strickland's professional life except the principles that helped shape it in the first place. The University of Waterloo professor has watched enrolment in her courses double, landed a promotion at work and begun scheduling global lectures in the two months since she became the third woman ever to win a Nobel Prize in physics. Source

The Arctic had its second-hottest year on record in 2018, part of a warming trend that may be dramatically changing earth's weather patterns, according to a report released on Tuesday by the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. Source

Research scientist Janelle Shane used an artificial neural network called textgenrnn and hundreds of cookie recipes to predict what cookies are likely to be called. Janelle Shane is a research scientist who plays with neural networks like, textgenrnn. Source

Google said Monday it will close the consumer version of its online social network sooner than originally planned due to the discovery of a new software bug. The Google+ social network will close in April -- four months earlier than planned -- and the internet giant will focus on operating a version tailored for businesses, according to G Suite product management vice president David Thacker. Source

STOLLBERG, Germany -- Some people count their calories. Dirk Gratzel counts his carbon emissions The software entrepreneur from Germany is among a small but growing number of people looking for ways to cut their personal greenhouse gas emissions from levels that scientists say are unsustainable if global warming is to be curbed. Source

VANCOUVER -- Climate change is causing glaciers atop Mount Meager in British Columbia to shrink, increasing the chances of landslides and even a new eruption, says an expert studying the volcano. Glyn Williams-Jones, a volcanologist from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C. Source

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Spacewalking astronauts ripped through thick insulation on a capsule docked to the International Space Station on Tuesday, looking for clues to a mysterious drilled hole that leaked precious cabin air four months ago. Source