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In the late eighteenth century, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier discovered fire." This is how the futurist and artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky described it, and he's not far off the mark. Through much of the...

Have you ever examined your relationship with the natural world? J. B. MacKinnon visited the U of M campus on Tuesday, Oct. 15 to promote his new book, The Once and Future World. The...

Earlier this month, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet announced the winners of the 2013 Nobel Prizes. The prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to James Rothman, a Yale professor of...

Italy's minister of health has announced that the Italian government will not permit human clinical trials of a controversial stem cell therapy. The Stamina Foundation, a Turin-based non-profit founded by Davide Vannoni, has been...

The University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA) has been negotiating with the administration since mid-June. The issues that remain on the table are the ones that will determine the culture and the mission of...

Relatives and supporters gathered outside the Manitoba Legislative Building last Friday to remember missing and murdered Aboriginal women, and to call on the federal government to formulate a national action plan to address the...

This past week, premiers issued a strong rebuke to the Harper Conservatives’ plan to overhaul the country’s job and skills training framework. The Conservatives want to replace the existing federal-provincial framework with their newly proposed...