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Spliced image, from left to right: a seismometer on mars, a heap of red rhubarb stalks with green leaves, a copper roof of the Canaian Parliament
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3 Things you should know about marsquakes, the value of urine, and the chemistry of rhubarb

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Renée-Claude Goulet
Canada Agriculture and…
May 10, 2023
This month, our experts explain how marsquakes can tell us about the interior of this planet, how urine's chemistry makes it a useful product, and how the chemicals found in rhubarb can affect our bodies.
A dirty glass slide of a stromatolite with a dirty cotton swab at the bottom; a close-up on a bee with a green head and thorax on a yellow flower; a false colour 3D view of the surface of Venus showing volcanoes and lava flowing towards the foreground.
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3 Things you should know about how native bees are important pollinators, how saliva is used to clean artifacts, and active volcanism on Venus

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Cassandra Marion, PhD
Canada Aviation and…
Apr 18, 2023
Collectively, our experts explain how saliva is an effective cleaning agent for art and artifacts, how wild native bees are essential for pollination, and how evidence of volcanic activity has been found on the planet Venus.
Three images side by side, grocery shelves full of eggs in clear trays, coral reefs seen from space, and a map of Canada divided into four differently coloured shapes.
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3 things you should know about egg refrigeration, coral reef satellite maps, and watersheds

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Renée-Claude Goulet
Canada Agriculture and…
Jun 14, 2022
For the June edition, they explain why in Canada, eggs need to be refrigerated, how a satellite map of the world's coral reefs informs conservation, and how watersheds connect us to the oceans.
Asbestos in mineral form. The mineral is greenish and white in colour and there are visible strands of asbestos fibres.
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Artifacts and asbestos: Managing hazards at Ingenium

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Briana Ippolito
Ingenium – Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jan 18, 2022
When it comes to hazardous artifacts, we’re doing "asbestos" we can! Learn how the Conservation team for the Ingenium museums manages potentially dangerous objects.
A three-part, spliced image of a parched and cracked area of soil, an atom encircled with electrons, and the surface of the Moon.
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3 things you should know about salty soil, invisibility, and Canada’s lunar rover

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Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD
Canada Science and Technology Museum
Dec 13, 2021
For the December edition, they explored the problem with high salinity levels in agricultural soils, a breakthrough in invisibility, and the emerging designs for the Canadian Lunar Rover Mission.
Three Conservators wearing personal protective equipment , including Tyvek suits, googles, nitrile gloves and respirators.
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Behind the scenes of the Ingenium big move: Hazard mitigation of a print maker’s drawer

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Caitlin Walsh
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Oct 8, 2021
From mice nests and insects to lead ink, conservators deal with a lot of hazards to keep museum collections safe.
Two museum conservators wearing full-body Personal Protective Equipment stand side by side, holding a black aircraft control panel upright. The artifact is sitting on plastic sheeting on a table.
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Inside Ingenium’s smallest collections storage room

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Jacqueline Riddle
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Aug 26, 2021
Take a look inside Ingenium’s smallest collections storage room, where a special class of artifacts have recently been moved into their “forever home.”
A black-and-white image shows a group of seven men standing behind a large piece of wood, which is painted with the call letters “G-CAAC.”
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Saving the Curtiss HS-2L: Recovering a piece of history from the bottom of a lake

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Leslie Hutchinson
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
Jul 14, 2021
Salvaged and saved…from the bottom of a lake! Take a behind-the-scenes look at how the Canada Aviation and Space Museum is preserving the Curtiss HS-2L.
Over-the-shoulder shot of curator and conservator peering under the hood of the Electronic Sackbut synthesizer. Internal wiring and circuitry behind keyboard is exposed.
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Uncovering the secrets of the world’s first synthesizer

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Tom Everrett, PhD
Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation
May 26, 2021
Canadian Hugh Le Caine invented the 1948 Electronic Sackbut — the world's earliest known electronic synthesizer. Now a team at Ingenium is bringing this revolutionary instrument back to life.
A close-up photo of a grouping of glass bottles with handwritten labels, and filled with grain seeds. Small, printed yellow paper envelopes are laid out in front of the bottles.
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Food for the future: How Canada's seed bank is protecting crop plants for tomorrow

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Renée-Claude Goulet
Canada Agriculture and…
Jan 19, 2021
Follow Science Advisor Renée-Claude Goulet for a behind-the-scenes look at Canada’s plant gene bank, where our agricultural biodiversity is collected and preserved.
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