April 10, 2012 9:20 pm
Short articles on science topics making the news this week from the Muse include Newfoundland's declining moose population and an increased number of youth using condoms.
April 3, 2012 1:35 pm
Since the 1960s, propranolol has been a drug prescribed as a beta-blocker to lower blood pressure. Sylvia Terbeck, an experimental psychology and neuroscience PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, recently noticed that propranolol also has tangible effects on certain parts the brain.
March 30, 2012 2:09 pm
Mount Allison master's student Michael MacGillivary has discovered three new species of diatoms, and named them after people who have been influential in his research.
March 28, 2012 4:24 pm
According to Robert Way, a science master's candidate in the department of geography at Memorial University, there are currently 125 active glaciers in the Torngat Mountains of Labrador, but their retreat has accelerated over the past 50 years in response to climate change.
March 16, 2012 12:35 pm
In our quest to find life on other planets, we sometime forget that there is still life to be discovered here on Earth, including the four new leaf-chameleons described in PLoS ONE in February. The most interesting part? They are less that two centimeters long.
Hockey Renaissance woman and former Concordia Stinger Lisa-Marie Breton-Lebreux lapped a life goal last month, winning the Clarkson Cup — for a third time.
The boy’s club scenario is not specific to SNL. In 2009, there were no women writers on the Jay Leno Show, Late Show with David Letterman, and The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.
A lot of drivers have this narcissistic notion that they are the best motorists in the world. It’s as if they believe Jeff Gordon taught them to drive, when, realistically, most drivers behave as if they’ve ingested Charlie Sheen’s tiger blood.
