Biotech battle
A European court recently ruled that processes involving the use or prior destruction of human embryos are unpatentable. The decision came after a 2004 Greenpeace…
science
The World: A Global Village
The increasing interconnectedness of our planet has created what is often called a “Global Village.” This connection comes as a result of the constant stream…
It’s not a tumour
Could your cellphone be giving you brain cancer? It’s hard to say, but the latest research is reassuring. A study recently published in the British…
Zoological Investigations
I went snorkeling in Puerto Rican waters on my day off this week. Yes, that’s right. I will rub it in, thank you. Even though…
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….
Todd & the Book of Pure Evil
There’s something uncannily charming about Todd & the Book of Pure Evil. The show debuted last fall on the Space network and was filmed right…
U of M one step closer to a more eco-friendly campus
The University of Manitoba sustainability committee recently released a draft of their sustainability strategy, which aims to present an organized vision of a sustainable university,…
Wrapped-up in time
For those of you who may have been raised under the ocean, deep underground in secret government bunkers or have been hermits for most of…
Planes, trains and automobiles . . . oh, and spaceships
Depending on where you’d like to go, the cost of travel can range in price. It costs $2.40 to ride a bus around Winnipeg, or…
Lookout!
On Sept. 23, 2011 NASA’s decommissioned Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) — a “bus sized” object, decommissioned in 2005 — re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere and…