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University of Manitoba professors Dr. David Levin and Dr. Richard Sparling have been collecting Tim Hortons cups on campus in order to further their research to convert the cups into biofuel — such as...

One of the most devastating events in the history of life on Earth is believed to have happened 65.5 million years ago, when an asteroid approximately 15 km across impacted our planet in what...

Buried in the permafrost on a tiny island in the Arctic Ocean is a vault, which may contain the future of humankind. It doesn’t contain weapons, gold or books, nor anything else you would...

With the results of a study published in the March 11 issue of Current Biology, scientists from University College London (UCL) have brought us closer to understanding how memories are fixed in our brains. The...

What if I told you that enough of the sun’s energy strikes the Earth every hour to power the entire planet for a full year? That would mean that if we could collect 100...

On March 14, five students from the University of Manitoba’s Asper School of Business will be sleeping outside for five days in an attempt to raise awareness of homelessness. This is just one of...

The University of Manitoba endowment fund is steadily recovering from the effects of economic recession. Due to the collapse of investment markets, in 2008 the University Investment Trust (UIT) fund lost approximately 20 per...