Science Briefs
Shanghai students are the best at math and science Over half a million students participated in the International Student Assessment in over 70 countries around…
Miguel Yetman
Less sodium and less sugar
With an increased desire to be healthy, consumers and governments are putting the pressure on food companies to produce more nutritious snacks and beverages without…
Thank Goodness for modern medicine
Medicine can be described as a wealth of knowledge that has grown over time. Only time, innovation and experimentation have given us what we know…
Four Loko: Less stress per can
Stress is something all students suffer from, with varying degrees. We go about dealing with stress in equally different ways; however, many students find that…
CNN isn’t talking about it, but it’s still there
Most of us are all too familiar with the BP oil spill that took place early this summer in the Gulf of Mexico. Mainstream media…
Economies Gone Wild
Let’s take a look at the economy in a few other parts of the world and their effect in North America. In the first week…
Soviet space programs
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was a no-holds-barred race between the USSR and the United States in an effort to be the…
The death of a great mathematician
Benoît B. Mandelbrot, the French-American mathematician, described as the founding father of fractal geometry, lost his battle to pancreatic cancer on Oct. 16. In the…
Chemical cause of anxiety found
A recent animal study has shed some light on anxiety and how scientists are able to predict it through genetic trends. The May 13 issue…
Miguel’s headline
Google, together with New York investment firm Good Energies, is buying a 37.5 per cent stake in a US$5 billion project to build 563 kilometres…