Explorer

Calling all motorheads! A Ford GT Mk II is now on temporary exhibition at the Canada Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa.

For the October edition, they discuss how technology is helping with fertilizer pollution, your chance to see Mars, and how the wandering albatross is helping to prevent illegal fishing.

For the September edition, we discuss cell-based meat, the Autumnal Equinox, and the collapse of the last Canadian ice shelf.

Here at Exploratek, we’ve been praising cardboard as the best material ever for a long time, and we’re far from the only ones!

As we usher in a new decade, the medical industry is innovating at an incredible pace — producing technologies that will impact individuals and Canadian society as a whole.

Recently, the media has been flooded with warnings about climate change, and wildly contrasting predictions about the promise and pitfalls of AI. What you may not know is how AI and climate change are linked.

Every time a museum visitor walks into Exploratek, they are presented with a challenge. Can you build something to launch a small object across a room?

This Boxing Day, you might find yourself surrounded by the perfect inspiration for crafting, building, and tinkering…boxes!

In 2017, I had the honour of travelling to Iran — the country that's world famous for its hand-woven carpets — to study women’s traditional practises of Persian carpet weaving. I visited collective and home carpet-weaving workshops in Kashan, where I interviewed local women who were involved in carpet weaving. Frames of astonishing designs, mixed with attractive colours using traditional tools, have been fixed in my memory. Traditional tools used for carpet weaving, ToranjMehrab carpet weaving

The Dominion Observatory's Earth Physics and Time Keeping Functions, part 4 by Randall Brooks Earth Physics The Dominion Observatory had another mandate — rather than looking up from the Observatory dome, some staff went to the basement to study gravity and seismic activity. The Observatory became part of a growing worldwide network of centres with seismographs to detect earthquakes and to combine the information to determine the location of the seismic activity. The Museum has a couple of early