science

Over-regulating the small guy

Earlier this month, the Manitoba Agriculture-Food and Rural Initiatives (MAFRI) collected and is currently slated to destroy thousands of dollars of agricultural product from a…


‘The sky is not the limit’

Chris Hadfield, the Canadian astronaut who captivated the world and cultivated a popular interest in outer space through his use of social media, spoke at…


“Save our science”

During the lunch hour of Sep. 16, science supporters across Manitoba gathered outside of the University of Winnipeg for the Stand Up For Science rally….


A day in the life: Doing the blot

Welcome back, dear readers! Last time we covered some of the basics of Western blotting. This issue, we’ll start getting into some of the specifics…


Beach party on the moon!

According to James Lovell, the command module pilot for the Apollo 8 mission, “the moon is essentially grey, no colour; [it] looks like a plaster…


Science, ethics, and nutrition

Earlier this summer, it was revealed that researchers sponsored by the Canadian government had conducted wildly unethical nutritional experiments on malnourished Aboriginal children in residential…



A day in the life: Western blotting

Hello again, dear readers! This issue, we will be exploring the world of Western blotting. Before we do a Western blot, let’s get acquainted with…


Boiled Alive

Research presented at the International Ethological Conference, known as Behaviour 2013, in Newcastle, U.K. earlier this August has shown there may be more to crustacean…


Three zeros

In light of a recent UNAIDS report indicating drops of up to 50 per cent in new HIV infections in some of the most severely…