Moon-mapping
NASA’s latest Discovery mission has entered orbit around the moon. The Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral on Sept. 10,…
research
Up to speed
The team of European scientists who reported evidence of neutrinos moving faster than light in September have tentatively confirmed the result in another experiment. The…
Antarctic glacier to calve large iceberg
A NASA mission flying over Antarctica discovered a new rift in the ice shelf of Pine Island Glacier. The glacier could soon calve a large…
Where do oceans come from? Just ask Herschel
New data from the Herschel Space Observatory shows massive reservoirs of ice near the young star TW Hydrae. The ice, if it were in liquid…
Science opinions
In September of this year a piece of news was silently taking the world by storm: The speed of light was broken; Einstein was finished….
Shift in research funding
In Canada there has been a relatively recent shift in research funding, with more emphasis on applied, industry-driven research and less on basic, exploratory research….
Statistical advantage
Last Friday, the movie Moneyball debuted in theatres. It is based on Michael Lewis’s 2003 best-selling book of the same name and focuses on the…
New centre aims to educate youth on farming
If you ate today, thank a farmer” is the last message you read when you walk out of the new Bruce D. Campbell Farm and…
Multiple sclerosis research at the U of M
According to Emma Frost, a professional associate in the University of Manitoba’s faculty of pharmacy, multiple sclerosis (MS) is a regionalized disease. “We are advocating…
A new domain?
The tree of life, the ingenious device used to visualize the evolution of the various taxa, is constantly undergoing changes and revisions. With new improvements…