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A woman wearing purple gloves looks into a glass bottle of water that she is holding.

Mining and Metallurgy

Life on Mars? Billion-year-old water found near Timmins could offer glimpse into the past

The Oberth Moon car as imagined in 1960. I.M. Levitt, “Le problème du transport sur la Lune.” L’Action catholique, 10 July 1960, 5.

I’m just not sure this vehicle was well thought through: The Moon car of astronautic pioneer Hermann Julius Oberth

Rénald Fortier

Guten tag, my reading friend. Are you having fun today? Wunberbar. Given this state of jocularity, I will presume to impose upon you for a few minutes. I can only presume that the illustration above caught your attention. As you must painfully know by now, yours truly cannot resist an opportunity to pontificate. After all, either one is a curator or one is not. Anyway, said illustration accompanied one of many articles on the mysteries of the universe published between May 1960 and February 1963

Three images side by side. From left to right: a salmon filet being sliced with a knife, a greyscale photo of the moon, and an artistic rendering of a protein

3 things you should know about aquaculture, Moon samples, and artificial intelligence

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and…

For the January edition, we provide context around the latest developments in aquaculture, Chang’e-5’s samples from the Moon, and how artificial intelligence is helping scientists to understand the behavior of proteins in the bodies of all living things.

Three images side by side: lush Christmas trees in a garden centre, the International Space Station in orbit, and a hand holding a syringe and needle up to an arm

3 things you should know about Christmas trees, COVID-19 vaccines, and the International Space Station

The Convair Model 580 operated by the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing of Environment Canada, Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport, Ottawa, Ontario, September 2001. Wikipedia.

It was one of the greats: The Convair Model 580 remote sensing aircraft of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Rénald Fortier

Hello, good day, my reading friend. What would you think of a brief excursion into the wonderful world of aviation and space? Surprise! This is not news to you, aviation enthusiast that you are, that it was in December 1950 that North America’s first turboprop airliner flew for the first time. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, or Convair, worked with the Allison Division of General Motors Corporation, an American automotive giant mentioned several / many times in our blog / bulletin /

A young woman wearing a navy blue shirt smiles as she stands next to a mannequin dressed in a black tank top. A computer and a variety of equipment is visible on shelves in the background.

Health & Wellness

Women in STEM: A conversation with Linda Dao

A spliced, three-part image shows: Two jars of green pickles, the Sun with some dark flecks on the image, and two pink pigs nestled together in the straw.

3 things you should know about pickles, Solar Cycle 25, and pig organs

A somewhat inaccurate (life-size?) reproduction of Sputnik I on display in Prague, Czechoslovakia, as part of an exhibition commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. Anon., “Modèle du satellite russe.” Le Nouvelliste, 10 October 1957, 1.

Québec / Canada and the simplest satellite, the PS-1 spacecraft, in other words Sputnik 1: An overview of what was published in the French language Québec press between 5 and 12 October 1957, Part 4

Rénald Fortier

Good morning and welcome to this 4th and last (I hope) part of this article on the media coverage surrounding the launch of the first artificial satellite, in October 1957. I am just as surprised as you are, believe it, by the magnitude of said cover. Your feet will not get cold, I assure you, and... Cover, cold, feet. Gag. Sigh, never mind. You will be delighted to note (read?) that the 9 October editions of 2 Québec dailies, L’Action Catholique of Québec and Le Devoir of Montréal, gave added

The simplest satellite or PS-1 spacecraft, in other words Sputnik I, a little before its launch, September 1957. NASA.

Québec / Canada and the simplest satellite, the PS-1 spacecraft, in other words Sputnik 1: An overview of what was published in the French language Québec press between 5 and 12 October 1957, Part 2

Rénald Fortier

Hello there, my reading friend fascinated by astronautics. Would you like to start reading, without further delay, this second part of the text on the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, which concerns us today? Two brief seconds, you say? I will give you three… One, two… On 8 October 1957, readers of La Patrie, a daily from Montréal, Québec, learned that researchers at the Radio Physics Laboratory of the Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment of the Defence Research Board (DRB), a

A somewhat inaccurate drawing of the spacecraft PS-1, in other words Sputnik I, in orbit around the Earth. Anon., « Fusées et satellites seraient invincibles. » Le Soleil, 8 October 1957, 1.

Québec / Canada and the simplest satellite, the PS-1 spacecraft, in other words Sputnik 1: An overview of what was published in the French language Québec press between 5 and 12 October 1957, Part 1

Rénald Fortier

Happy World Space Week 2020, my reading friend! Would you believe that the first issue of our blog / bulletin / thingee came out 3 years, 3 months and 3 days ago? And yours truly is still digressing… If you do not mind, I wish to abandon, for this week only, rest assured, the anniversarial format of our blog / bulletin / thingee in order to devote many pontificating lines to a question which, at least I hope so, has not been discussed very, very often: how the daily and weakly, sorry, weekly