Tackling compostable plastic recycling challenges
U of M interdisciplinary undergraduate student group Prairie iGEM is aiming to solve recycling practices and problems with polylactic acid (PLA) plastic in Manitoba through…
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Let’s talk about baby talk
Before babies are even born, they begin learning how to speak. In the uterus, they hear and respond to voices and start to understand how…
Navigating the Hearts and Minds Lab
Around the world, 10 to 15 per cent of children are diagnosed with a mental illness. Similar to children with chronic conditions affecting their physical…
The science behind gossip
According to researchers at the University of California Riverside, the average person spends 52 minutes each day gossiping. At the U of M’s communication and…
The neurobiology of grief
Earlier this month, the Rady faculty of health sciences hosted a seminar on the neurobiology of grief. The seminar featured a presentation by Mary-Frances O’Connor,…
Improving food security by studying insects
Esther Ndumi Ngumbi grew up in a rural farming community on the Kenyan coast. Her parents worked as teachers and cultivated crops to supplement their…
Midwives and the changing maternal health landscape
Each year in Canada, over 300,000 people give birth. High quality, accessible care helps ensure their safe transition from pregnancy, to birth, to the postpartum…
How human health has evolved through time
With a focus on skeletal remains, U of M associate professor in anthropology Julia Gamble offers a unique perspective on how early life experiences can…
From rust to innovation
U of M doctoral student in the department of physics and astronomy Rachel Nickel is exploring the use of nanoscale particles in the application of…
The science behind fright
Fear is one of the most primal emotions and has fascinated researchers and curious minds alike for generations. But what goes on in our brains…