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Losing your job is typically not a pleasant experience for anyone to go through, but imagine having to find out your job no longer exists through Facebook. That’s what happened to Jocelyn Diamond, a former...

Straddling the grey space between programming club, science lab and artist’s collective, SkullSpace is Winnipeg’s first and only hackerspace. Founded by three University of Manitoba alumni, the space hopes to create a sense of...

There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding the “discovery” of supposedly arsenic-based bacteria that NASA published in early December. Even respectable media outlets have touted the find as a “redefinition” of what constitutes life...

If you think you’ve joined the ranks and have become a fellow data hoarder with your stash of several external hard drives and possess the compulsive need to triple-back things up, imagine how the...

Given the scale and diversity of most animal populations, it is a rare thing to talk about extinction on the same time scale we might use for the life span of an automobile. However,...

Hello and welcome to January 2011. I was looking out the window earlier, enjoying the hoar frost, when it occurred to me that, really, Winnipeg isn’t so bad in winter. We give ourselves a...

The ultimate hangover cure! Science has provided us with the ultimate cure for hangovers. A hangover can occur when doses of ethanol (large or small) are converted into a chemical know as acetate in your...