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Better know a prokaryote
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Escherichia coli, or E. coli, as its friends know it, has gotten a pretty bad rap lately. From tainting water supplies in Walkerton, Ontario to contaminating ground beef and — to the delight of...
Human versus machine
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In the boardrooms, laboratories and command centres of space agencies around the world a war is coming — a war, which will pit burley astronauts, who excel at winning the hearts and minds of...
Out of the minds of babes
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Developmental psychologists are fond of telling us that we can, contrary to popular opinion, read each other’s minds. The initial excitement of this prospect quickly wears off when we find out the sort of...
Ask a scientist
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What causes brain freeze?
Since, according to the British Medical Journal (BMJ), it is the most common cause of headache, odds are most of you have experienced “brain freeze,” or sphenopalatino ganglioneuralgia, as the science-types...
Zoological investigations IV
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The golden bamboo lemur, Hapalemur aureus was not formally discovered until the ripe old year of 1987 on that beautiful and mysterious island located off the eastern coast of Africa — Madagascar. This wonderful...
U of M scores low on ‘green’ report card, accuracy of...
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The University of Saskatchewan and the University of Manitoba have scored a C- and C+ respectively on the College Sustainability Report Card. Out of all Canadian universities scored, the U of M received the...