Science & Technology

February 17, 2012 12:59 pm

It shoots, it scores

U of M home to what may be world's first hockey-playing robot

Programmers working at the Autonomous Agents Laboratory at the University of Manitoba may have developed the world’s first humanoid-robot ice-hockey player.

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    Google’s new privacy policy

    Late last month, Google announced its plans to amalgamate their many privacy policies into one unified document starting March 1. The new policy changes are presented as a take-it-or-leave-it option from Google.

  • February 9, 2012 5:26 pm

    Science briefs

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  • February 8, 2012 3:51 pm

    Canada’s presence at COP17

    The most recent fight for a legally binding global climate change agreement took place from Nov. 28 to Dec. 9, 2011 in Durban, South Africa. In attendance were world delegates, environmental ministers, business leaders, media personnel, NGO representatives, and impassioned activists, some of whom were students. The Muse spoke to one of these members of the Canadian Climate Coalition.

  • February 6, 2012 1:09 pm

    UNB researchers investigate deadly bat fungus

    Researchers in the faculty of biology at the University of New Brunswick are searching for a way to explain and stop a phenomenon that has killed nearly seven million little brown bats in just six years. The fungus has been pushing the species to the verge of extinction, and recently arrived in New Brunswick.