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October 15, 2014
“Music is a very social activity,” says Laurel Trainor, Director of the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind.
It’s a brave assertion in an age when digital audio players in our cars and pockets...
July 28, 2014
Dr. Holger Herwig
Holger Herwig is one of Canada’s foremost experts on military history and modern warfare. He is a Canada Research Chair in Military and Strategic Studies at the University...
February 7, 2014
The Winter Olympic Games have arrived, and the pressure is on for every athlete striving to step foot on the podium. Past Canadian Olympic figure skating contenders have had Robert Schinke, Canada...
December 11, 2013
While 3-D printing is not a new technology, the development of smaller, and cheaper, machines now allows people to buy a compact consumer version at Staples. And while the spectre of criminals...
May 18, 2011
Zoom
In the Ethnology Research Room, families can learn about the history of the museum artifacts by examining them up close.
While the recent major renovations to...
June 9, 2010
Zoom
Dr. Phil Currie (left), Michael (right), and the late Protoceratops andrewsi, Outer Mongolia, 1996.Michael Skrepnick
All that’s left of the most numerous,...
January 1, 2008
Many of the nearly five million Canadians who smoke tobacco will make a New Year’s resolution to quit. For most, it will be extremely difficult, and according to Health Canada data, it...
May 29, 2018
When non-Indigenous scientists wish to conduct research in Indigenous communities, cultural misunderstandings can arise over issues including the methods of research, ownership of data and...
May 1, 2018
Would watching the hockey playoffs be more fun if you could see the arena projected in three dimensions on top of your coffee table, the players just 10 centimetres tall and visible from all angles?...
April 23, 2018
When viruses infected our ancestors millions of years ago, they left behind strands of their DNA embedded in human brain cells. At the University of Manitoba, Sheena Gurm studies these viral...