Brain computing
Scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a revolutionary transistor that behaves in similar ways to the synapses of…
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The Iceman cometh
On Sept. 19, 1991, Erika and Helmut Simon, vacationers from Nuremberg, Germany, discovered a man’s body protruding from the ice in the mountains of the…
A bug in your belly
For the average Canadian, cold-blooded crawly creatures may be feared or revered. If you fall into the “I barf at the thought of eating spiders…
Bone business
Just in time for Halloween, a controversy has erupted in the scientific community over an early human skull that was found in a dig site…
‘Turning the crank’
Students and faculty gathered in the engineering building on Tuesday for an armchair session on Ethics and Engineering Education. The event, co-sponsored by the Faculty…
Calls for improved HIV/AIDS care in Manitoba and Canada
British Columbia’s influential HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment advocate Dr. Julio Montaner was in Winnipeg early this month to help lobby for improved disease prevention and…
Time’s arrow: Antoine Lavoisier
In the late eighteenth century, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier discovered fire.” This is how the futurist and artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky described it, and he’s…
The cellular post office
Earlier this month, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet announced the winners of the 2013 Nobel Prizes. The prize in Physiology or Medicine was…
Controversial stem cell therapy refused clinical trials in Italy
Italy’s minister of health has announced that the Italian government will not permit human clinical trials of a controversial stem cell therapy. The Stamina Foundation,…
Time’s arrow: Alan Turing
Science education tends to be a strange mixture of technical concepts and history. Ideally this gives us the best of both worlds: we learn how…