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As industries across the province shed jobs in response to COVID-19, the video game industry in Nova Scotia is recruiting. The industry is looking to hire dozens of new employees as people staying at home due to the pandemic drive up video game sales. Source

Scientists used raw eggs to simulate the damaging effects on the brain from strikes to the head, with surprising results. If someone calls you an egghead, they are not too far off. Think about it: an egg has a hard outer shell; a liquid interior, which is the white of the egg; and liquid yolk surrounded by a membrane suspended in the centre. Source

Twitter said on Friday that it had permanently banned an account connected to the office of Iran's supreme leader, shortly after the account posted a photo showing former U.S. President Donald Trump playing golf in the shadow of a giant drone. Source

Tracking every case of COVID-19 in Canada Coronavirus vaccine tracker: How many people in Canada have received shots? Source

ROME, ITALY -- Italian prosecutors have opened a probe into the accidental death of a 10-year-old girl who allegedly took part in a "blackout challenge" on the video-sharing network TikTok. The girl died in a Palermo hospital after being discovered Wednesday by her five-year-old sister in her family bathroom with her cellphone, which was seized by police. Source

Researchers at McMaster University have developed a new form of cultivated meat using a method they say promises more natural flavour and texture than other alternatives to traditional meat from animals. Using a technique adapted from a method used to grow tissue for human transplants, researchers Ravi Selvaganapathy and Alireza Shahin-Shamsabadi have been able to cultivate meat by stacking thin sheets of cultivated muscle and fat cells grown together in a lab setting. Source

If Iqalummiut feel like winter has been especially mild this year, they're not wrong. Temperatures have been unseasonably balmy by Iqaluit standards this winter and Tuesday officially had the warmest maximum temperature recorded for Jan. 19 since records began in 1946 at 0.5 C. Source

Thirteen North Atlantic whale calves have been spotted off the coast of the southern United States — more than the number born in a single winter since 2016. The calves, recorded only about halfway through the calving season, are reason for "guarded optimism" about the endangered whale's population, a researcher says. Source

WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND -- Google on Friday threatened to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government went ahead with plans to make tech giants pay for news content. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison quickly hit back, saying "we don't respond to threats. Source

VANCOUVER -- Predatory sand worms up to two-metres long were striking at prey from beneath the ocean floor near Taiwan some 20 million years ago, according to new research from Simon Fraser University. The findings, which were published this week in Scientific Reports, began with the discovery of a trace fossil of the creature's underwater burrow that was located along a rocky coastal area of the island nation. Source