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Science was proved fallible once again, when NASA’s gamma ray telescope made a startling discovery: galaxies don’t emit as much gamma rays as was previously thought. To put this into context, you first need...

Plants get a bum rap for being lazy do-nothings who are content to bask in the sun all day if you let them. Furthermore, a bunch of them just go dormant for months at...

Dandelions, arguably the most annoying plant any gardener will come across (second only to stinging nettle). They are like the mosquitoes of the plant world. Except for those few people who use them in...

As a trained paleontologist and professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago, Neil Shubin discovered that by using comparative anatomy he could teach human anatomy to his students better. Many animals share similar...

Aboriginal students at the University of Manitoba are outraged over an online classified ad offering free “extraction” and “relocation” of Aboriginal youth from within city limits to reserves or areas of the city with...

Two weeks in a row; you mammalian malcontents are killing me. My date from last week, the dashing barn owl, took one sniff of me and flew away, hooting about raw sewage and rotting...

As university students, we are often in multiple classes and have many other responsibilities, which may make it seem like there are not enough minutes in the day to accomplish everything we need to...