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Student-made robot sets new world record for solving the Rubik’s Cube

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Since its invention in the 70s, the Rubik’s Cube has entertained, challenged, and frustrated users around the world. Last month, a pair of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devised a robot capable of solving the popular 3D puzzle in an astounding 0.38 seconds. Read the full story – and watch a video that shows the robot in action. http://news.mit.edu/2018/featured-video-solving-rubiks-cube-record-time-0316

Museum visitors take an inter-planetary adventure with virtual reality technology

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

If you’ve ever dreamed of exploring a distant planet, now’s your chance – and you don’t even have to leave Ottawa to do it. This spring, the public is invited to test-drive a virtual reality application at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. The application – called Minerva Prime – is being developed by a group of students from Algonquin College. Dushan Horvat, the professor for the Game Development class working on Minerva Prime, explains the application’s theme. “Humankind has already

Screen capture of the Digital Archives welcome page.

Ingenium’s Digital Archives opens museum vaults to the curious

Researchers, creators, and digital citizens rejoice – the vaults have been opened! Thanks to a new Digital Archives portal from Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, Canadians now have unprecedented access to the archives of three national museums. This means a whole new level of access to digital copies of holdings – and a look at naked catalogue records – from the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology

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Citizen science: Where research meets the public

Cassidy Swanston

Canada Science and Technology Museum

Are you interested in learning about how the world works? You don’t need a lab or degree to explore – citizen science projects all over the world bring discovery to your home, backyard, or community. Citizen science is the product of researchers teaming up with the public to solve scientific issues. Projects exist in almost every field, including ecology, astronomy, molecular biology, and genomics. “Crowd-sourcing” research allows for data to be collected from all over the world, and benefits

Social Science & Culture

Augmented reality games attract extroverts

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Gamers are often assumed to be anti-social people, but a new study out of the University of British Columbia (UBC) shows different results. When it comes to augmented reality games – such as Pokémon Go – extroverts tend to be better players. To learn more, read the latest from UBC News.

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Basketball

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The afterlife of a peach basket. Create a new team sport that demands agility, speed, and accuracy from its players, not just strength alone. Make sure it can be played both safely and indoors. Oh, one more thing: come up with it in fourteen days. James Naismith’s answer to his boss’s difficult demand was basketball. An instructor at the YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891, Naismith drew inspiration for his new game from one he played as a child in the small town of

From sea to sea: Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope

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From sea to sea: Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope

For most people, the loss of a leg to cancer would be devastating. But Terry Fox said it made his life challenging and rewarding. Of course, Fox wasn’t your average athlete. His situation didn’t hold him back from chasing his dreams. Instead, it helped him campaign for the awareness of cancer, its research and the perception of people with motor impairments. To this day Fox instills hope in our nation. Terry fox was 18 years-old just starting his degree in kinesiology, when he was diagnosed with

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How to prevent falls

Canada Foundation for Innovation

Researchers at Simon Fraser University are analyzing how people fall with the aim of preventing injuries. The Technology for Injury Prevention in Seniors (TIPS) program at Simon Fraser University partnered with two long-term care facilities in the Vancouver area to study real-life falls. They’re using this falling data to design new preventions such as compliant flooring and hip protectors that can help alleviate fall-related injuries. According to principal investigator Stephen Robinovitch

(Left to Right) TritonWear co-founder and CEO Tristan Lehari, Minister of Small Business and Tourism Bardish Chagger, and Warrior Head Coach Jeff Slater

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Waterloo tech changes the way competitive swimmers train

University of Waterloo

Minister of Small Business and Tourism Bardish Chagger announced $500K for TritonWear Inc., a startup founded by University of Waterloo engineering alumni. High praise came with some practical advice in November of 2016 as the federal government formally announced recent financial support for developed-in-Waterloo technology that is changing the way competitive swimmers train. TritonWear Inc., a startup company founded by University of Waterloo engineering graduates Tristan Lehari and Darius Gai

Duck Decoy / photograph courtesy of Clifford Lambeboy/the Canadian Museum of History

Duck Decoy

Ingenious - Ingénieux

The hunter’s secret weapon. The hunter’s most formidable weapon is deception. The Cree and Ojibway peoples of Canada’s Great Lakes relied on it for thousands of years. They used reeds, cattails, bulrushes, tamarack, and other plants to make remarkably lifelike floating and stationary decoys that lured game birds and waterfowl to roosting areas. Once there, they were within reach of the nets, snares, arrows, and spears of the Aboriginal hunters. European settlers and then generations of

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