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About time you monkeys showed up — it’s been almost a month since your last genetics lesson, and I was worried you might’ve developed a false sense of superiority without my gentle assurances that...

Just over 200 years ago, the prevailing belief popularized by religious mythology was that the planet earth had been around for just some 10,000 years. Thankfully scientists, like the French naturalist Comte de Buffon,...

Sexual reproduction is a wonderful thing — scientifically speaking, of course. Through the combining of genetic material two individuals create a genetic offspring that is genetically similar, but not identical to the parents. However...

John Danakas, spokesperson for the University of Manitoba, said that the water provided on campus has always met the Canadian Drinking Water Quality guidelines, whenever the university has conducted water quality testing. However, this fails...

Students at the University of Manitoba had a chance to ask questions of the Moving Forward Slate, the only slate running in this year’s UMSU election, along with a representative from the Support The...

This article has been updated with new information as of 12:50 p.m. on Wednesday, March 3. Poster vandalism leads to physical confrontation. As CRO Jason Van Rooy reported at the UMSU council meeting Feb. 25,...

Health Canada has approved the use of the HPV vaccine Gardasil for men. Merck Frosst was granted authorization by the federal government on Feb. 22 to market Gardasil for boys and men from ages nine...