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Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles currently still require oil

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Leif Larsen
Let’s face it; hydrogen fuel cells are really awesome. In goes some hydrogen — which just happens to be the most abundant element in the universe — and out comes a bunch of electricity....
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Better know a prokaryote

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Leif Larsen
The virus formerly known as “swine flu,” or the H1N1 strain of the common influenza virus, has gotten all the press lately, so I thought I would steal back some of the spotlight and...
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Carbon, we hardly know ye

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Leif Larsen
You are mostly water and carbon. Oh, sure, there is some nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen, along with a host of other elements thrown in there, but you’re pretty much all carbon. You’re not alone...
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U of M to get funding for research on all fronts

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Amber Teres
Announced earlier last week, the University of Manitoba received funding for a number of different research areas in many different programs all around the campus. The funding is provided through the Manitoba Research and...
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NDP leadership candidate Greg Selinger want students sooner access to the...

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Sarah Petz
NDP leadership candidate Greg Selinger will look to provide students with access to the existing 60 per cent tuition rebate while they are still in school. His feeling is that earlier access to the...
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University of brandon to join Project Hero

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Sarah Petz
Brandon University is the latest to join Project Hero, a scholarship program that will provide full tuition for full or part-time students whose parents have died in Afghanistan while a member of the Canadian...
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Students’ Union to rent out textbooks

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Morgan Modjeski
The University of Manitoba’s Students’ Union (UMSU) has officially started renting out first-year mathematics textbooks to students, a service that Sid Rashid says will eliminate one of the many barriers for students at the...

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