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Real-time with Winnipeg Bus Live

Transit-users who chose to go Android over iPhone will be happy to learn of the free new app “Winnipeg Bus Live” created by Winnipegger Ryan…


Crowdsourcing science

Peer review is the way things get done in science. Authors submit write-ups of their experiments to journals for publication. The journals send the articles…


Time out

The leaders of several top virology labs have agreed to a 60-day halt on research involving new strains of avian influenza that are more transmissible…


Science opinions

Our parents taught us not to talk to strangers and to look both ways before crossing the street — what we should really fear are…


UMSU notes

The University of Manitoba Students’ Union (UMSU) council met on Jan. 26. Michael Safiniuk, chief returning officer for UMSU elections, presented the limits for candidates,…


local news briefs

U of M opens new biology labs The University of Manitoba celebrated the completion of renovations to two major facilities in the faculty of science…