Research & Technology
Verb-first languages fuel debate about language variation
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Across human languages, there are six possible ways for the subject, object and verb of a sentence to be ordered.
The most common word order is subject-first, which accounts for the majority of known languages.
It...
What past epidemics tell us about COVID-19
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On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
With over 761 million reported cases and a series of nation-wide lockdowns in the past three years, the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic...
The promising future of electronic sensors
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Electrical engineering is a field that can be applied in a variety of areas, such as sustainable technology and health sciences.
U of M professor of electrical and computer engineering Douglas Thomson researches the development...
A glimpse of the U of M skies
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On the third floor of University College, in room 394, is the Lockhart Planetarium.
This facility at the U of M Fort Garry campus serves as an immersive teaching and public outreach space for the...
What moles and sick humans have in common
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Hemoglobin and myoglobin are two respiratory pigments — molecules that bind to oxygen, a respiratory gas — found in the human body.
Hemoglobin, which exists in our blood, uptakes oxygen from the lungs and delivers...
UBC prof discusses new approaches to eco-climate crisis
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Last Thursday, the University of Manitoba Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics hosted a virtual lecture on the importance of eco-climate activism.
The lecture, “Does the co-climate crisis call for a new kind of citizenship,...
U of M prof builds model to manage Manitoba’s water
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Flooding in Manitoba can cause hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of damage.
In some cases, whole roads need to be rebuilt or repaired as a result of floods. The destruction of infrastructure also costs...
