Research & Technology

Ranging from wheelchairs to speech recognition software, over 2.5 billion people globally need assistive technology. As the population ages and noncommunicable diseases become more prevalent, that number is expected to rise to 3.5 billion...

 Tristan Miller has always been interested in linguistics and languages. From a young age, this fascination was sparked by a thoughtful gift from his mother — one of Willard Espy’s books on wordplay. Delving into the...

 Last month, Research Manitoba’s Innovation Proof-of-Concept (IPoC) Grant Program allocated close to $550,000 in funding over the span of two years to support five research initiatives at the University of Manitoba. Among the recipients...

 The Thriving Center of Psychology found in a 2023 survey that 83 per cent of Generation Z and millennials would like to get married at some point in their lives. Yet with nearly half...

Wild pigs, an invasive species commonly known as boar or feral hogs, have spread across Canadian provinces, causing damage to farmers’ crops and livestock. Wild boars were first brought to Canada from Europe in...

 Traditional science entails the isolation and thorough understanding of specific phenomena, often emphasizing the removal of external influences to focus solely on the subject of study. This approach, while effective for scientific inquiry, poses...

Canada is currently facing severe levels of food insecurity. In 2022, 18.4 per cent of Canadians across the provinces (and 19.6 per cent of Manitobans) lived in a food-insecure household, a number that increased since...