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SAN FRANCISCO, UNITED STATES -- A TikTok star pounds a beat as she weaves lyrics mocking the idea of U.S. President Donald Trump banning the short-form video sharing app. The "Trump Freestyle" post Monday by @maya2960 quickly racked up more than a million views and 500,000 "likes" on the popular platform owned by China-based ByteDance. Source

Between watching Apollo 13, Star Wars and Canadian astronaut Julie Payette's first trip into space, Farah Alibay says she always had the bug for space exploration. Now, the Montreal-born NASA aerospace engineer is waiting for the Perseverance rover — currently hurtling toward Mars at a speed of nearly 40,000 kilometres per hour — to land on the Red Planet. Source

Koalas are one of Australia’s most loved native species, however their numbers keep on dropping. Scientists and conservationists are now taking to the sky, using high-tech drones to get an accurate koala count. The tree-climbing marsupials were hit hard by the country’s recent devastating wildfires. Source

EDMONTON -- It's a diagnosis that took 75 million years. Canadian researchers who included specialists from surgeons to paleontologists have identified what they say is the first known cancer in a dinosaur. The conclusion not only sheds light on the history of what is still one of humanity's most feared diseases, but also hints at how the ancient lizards may have lived with -- and protected -- each other. Source

TORONTO -- Federal and Ontario privacy commissioners have concluded their review of the country’s new COVID-19 exposure notification app and support its use after initial privacy and security concerns. Experts and lawmakers have been assessing privacy concerns associated with contact tracing apps in an effort to curb the spread of the virus, and commissioners say that the federally developed app has met all of their recommendations. Source

LONDON, ONT. -- In a new way of thinking, researchers at Western University say ice sheets and not rivers carved the surface of the red planet. The findings published in Monday's Nature Geoscience go against conventional thinking that rainfall and oceans once existed on Mars. Source

You are what you eat, so the saying goes. But few people would suspect that dietary choices are reflected, inch by inch, in the hair growing on your head. Your mop can potentially shed light on whether you prefer veggie burgers or cheeseburgers, a new study has suggested. Source

SAN RAMON, CALIF. -- Google is paying US$450 million for a nearly 7% stake in longtime home and business security provider ADT Inc., a deal that will open new opportunities for one of the internet's most powerful companies to extend the reach of its Nest cameras and voice-activated voice assistant. Source

B.C.'s Peace region is experiencing roughly 1,500 small earthquakes a year and most of them are connected to fracking operations, according to a new study. Researchers set up 15 earthquake detectors around the region and recorded 5,757 tiny earthquakes that were otherwise undetected between 2017 and 2019. Source

LONG BEACH, CALIF. -- Virgin Orbit said Monday it has determined what caused the failure of its debut rocket launch and is working toward a second flight that will carry small satellites for NASA. The Long Beach, California, company founded by Richard Branson, experienced a premature shutdown of its main rocket engine on Memorial Day moments after the launch vehicle was released from beneath the wing of a modified Boeing 747 off the Southern California coast. Source