science

Women have been contributing to the sciences for a great number of years. Here is a brief list of only a small fraction of the well-known female minds who have bettered our world: Elizabeth Blackwell:...

Digvir Jayas, the University of Manitoba's vice president (research and international) has recently been appointed to the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). "I was thrilled to receive a call about my...

Researchers from Newcastle University, U.K., and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, recently shed light on a growing health concern. Published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, their research was able to detect...

Playing video games is not only for the fangirls and fanboys (although that new Deadpool game sure looks great). They can also be used to help people struggling with literacy from dyslexia. Between five...

University of Manitoba engineering student Cameron MacGregor is the winner of the third annual Sunnybrook Prize competition for internship research in biomedical engineering, held at the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto. His project on...

The Computer Science Students' Association (CSSA) has announced that they will be sending two teams to the 2014 Computer Science (CS) Games, one of which will be the first-ever all-women's team to attend the...

We live in an age of being environmentally conscious about our planet, so it is no surprise when topics like pollution cause a stir within our communities. A team of environmental scientists led by...