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Certain species of tarantulas display brilliant shades of blue on their bodies, although the colour is not produced by pigmentation. Researchers from Ohio’s University of Akron and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University...

A team of doctors in Toronto have successfully completed a full hand and forearm transplant, a first for Canada. The surgery, which took 18 surgeons about 14 hours, is expected to be a deciding factor...

The decision by the University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) to sanction the Science Students’ Association (SSA) was “extreme” and “excessive,” said SSA president Anthony Cao. In an emergency motion in early December, UMSU voted...

A University of Manitoba civil engineering class is getting some real-world experience after the school entered into a joint partnership with the City of Winnipeg and several leading engineering companies with the aim of...

The University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) began consulting students, faculty, and staff last week as part of an effort to draft an alternative budget in contrast with the current spending priorities of the...

The efforts of the University of Manitoba’s office of sustainability have been rewarded with a silver rating from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE). In his report to the board...

While students at more than 20 Canadian universities – including the University of Manitoba – are engaged in campaigns pressuring their campuses to divest from fossil fuel industries, a University of British Columbia (UBC)...