Science briefs: The fear factor and chocolate abuse
Study shows fear can be erased from brain A new study from Uppsala University in Sweden has shined light on the emotions involved with fear…
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Not your father’s Oldsmobile: The present, past, and future of self-driving cars
On Tuesday, Sept. 25, the state of California signed a bill into law that will allow self-driving cars on California roadways. It sounds like science…
The good and the bad: A profile of Canadian non-profit Bad Science Watch
I care about science. I am fascinated by its attempt to systematically weigh evidence and weed out bias, ever striving to reach successively closer approximations…
Higgs Boson update: What you missed over the summer
This year has been an exciting time in the field of particle physics. A few months ago, scientists in China measured theta-13, a previously unknown…
Science briefs: Coronavirus, open-access particle physics, worm brains manipulated by lasers
New coronavirus emerges Public health officials are wary as news of a new type of coronavirus emerges. The discovery of the virus was announced on…
Science briefs: News from the world of genetics and stem cells
New study able to identify genes involved in Face shape A new study, published by Plos Genetics, has shined a light on the genes that…
On the importance of vaccines: Not taking part puts us all at risk
Vaccination is really important. That may seem to you like an unusually benign assertion – not because it’s false, but because it’s so trivially and…
Science groups on campus: W.I.S.E, Let’s Talk Science and the U of M Science students Association (SSA)
Many science-based, student-oriented campus community groups are eagerly awaiting a fresh inrush of new members! W.I.S.E. Kid-Netic Energy (Women in Science and Engineering) Where: Engineering…
Notes from the Northern Boreal: A wandering bird biologist’s field journals
Thermoregulation; foraging black terns; red-winged black birds and the “trillers” 26 JUNE, 2012 We awoke this morning to wind gusts of 45+ kilometres per hour…
Notes from the Northern Boreal: A wandering bird biologist’s field journals
Lichenous white-spruce; black bears abound; boreal plant and animal artifacts collected