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It could be over a year until a decision is made on the proposed new tariff from Access Copyright, the collective that licenses copying and course packs for most universities across Canada. Gilles McDougall,...

Underwater cloak renders objects invisible to sonar “We are not talking about science fiction. We are talking about controlling sound waves by bending and twisting them in a designer space,” said Nicholas Fang, mechanical science...

Although the sphere of political debate is usually filled with passionate disagreement, there are a few subjects most politicians seem to agree on. You know the ones I mean: crime is bad, children and...

Last year was a fantastic one for the science world, thanks largely to the efforts out of England. First, the journal The Lancet retracted Andrew Wakefield’s paper, which fraudulently linked autism and the MMR...

Do the tools we use change us as a species? Can technology redefine our place in the universe? The questions may seem laden with clichés that have emerged within the past 25 years or...

The University of Manitoba Students’ Union’s recycling and environmental group, UMREG, will be transferring some of its current duties over to Physical Plant this term, in an attempt to develop an overall stronger recycling...

Harvard missed signs of forgery The application of Adam Butler Wheeler, the student who famously conned his way into Harvard, was fraught with errors and inconsistencies, reported the Boston Globe. An examination of copies of...