On May 7, the University of Manitoba will be bustling with scientific wonder and excitement as Science Rendezvous takes over the campus. Science Rendezvous is an annual event that takes place in cities across Canada...

World-renowned Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki celebrates his 80th birthday this week. In his decades working as an academic, public broadcaster, and science communicator, Suzuki has become a household name in Canada and an icon of...

When the Manitoban last talked to biosystems engineering professor David Levin, he was working on a project to create biofuels like ethanol and hydrogen from cellulose, a common carbohydrate found in plants. While this mode...

Most individuals drink alcohol and experience a rather balanced mix of pleasant and unpleasant effects. However, some individuals have alcohol intolerance – colloquially known as alcohol flush syndrome – which makes alcohol consumption a...

David Herbert is an assistant professor in the department of chemistry. As a synthetic inorganic chemist, he uses chemical reactions to produce particular molecules or compounds of interest. “The focus of inorganic chemistry tends to...

In 1943, a Swiss chemist named Albert Hofmann experienced the world’s first acid trip. While the rest of Europe was gearing up for the Second World War, Hofmann found himself working for Sandoz Laboratories in...

Members of the plant kingdom make hundreds of thousands of molecules called secondary metabolites. These compounds aren’t crucial for life, but are instead used for things like communication and defense – think of the...