Skip to main content

You are leaving IngeniumCanada.org

This link leads to an external website that Ingenium does not control. Please read the third-party’s privacy policies before entering personal information or conducting a transaction on their site.

Have questions? Review our Privacy Statement

Vous quittez IngeniumCanada.org

Ce lien mène à un site Web externe qu'Ingenium ne contrôle pas. Veuillez lire les politiques de confidentialité des tiers avant de partager des renseignements personnels ou d'effectuer une transaction sur leur site.

Questions? Consultez notre Énoncé de confidentialité

Langue

Français

Search

Menu des liens rapides

Ingenium Locations
Shop
Donate
Join

Menu

Main Navigation

Browse
About
- About The Channel
- Content Partners

Explore

Browse

Article

Read original articles as well as short summaries with links to our favourite online sources.

Filters

Clear All

Categories

Publication

BBC - Homepage (2)
Discover Magazine Blogs (5)
MIT Technology Review (3)
popsci.com (1)
ScienceDaily (3)
Science Friday (1)
Science Literacy Week (1)
Science News (1)

Reading Duration

Short (40)
Medium (29)
Long (22)

271 Results:

Sort by

The father of television, Alphonse Ouimet, built the first television prototype in 1932 and later became the President of the CBC. Source: CBC Still Photo Collection.

Household Technology

Television comes to Canada

Algonquin college

Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program If you enjoy crashing on your couch after a long day and watching your favourite TV show, you can thank J. Alphonse Ouimet, also known as the father of Canadian television. Today, television is everywhere. In fact, about 14.5 million households in Canada own at least one television set. Bringing television to Canada Ouimet, a Montreal native, worked for a firm developing television. He built a prototype of the first television set in 1932 when he

John Polanyi wasn’t interested in science until he made it work for him. In school he would look for multiple answers instead of only the answer his teachers would accept.

Chemistry from all angles

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program What set John Polanyi apart from other scientists was his ability to look at a problem from all angles. In school he thought science was dull because his teachers always had him follow the procedures to get one uniform answer. But Polanyi was fascinated by going beyond the curriculum to find new observations and discoveries. Polanyi was 11 years old when his father sent him to Toronto to keep him safe from the bombings in Britain during World War

Harriet Brooks Pitcher worked with a lot of important physicists in her short career of 13 years.

An engagement nearly cuts a scientist’s career short

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program Harriet Brooks Pitcher, an esteemed nuclear physicist, was the first woman to receive a master’s degree from McGill University. And while studying at McGill, Pitcher worked with Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear physics. She investigated radium and discovered that over time it became radon – an uncommon radioactive gas – which would in turn, change as well. This process was called transmutation of the elements, and the discovery helped build

Louis Siminovitch was a pioneer in genetics.

Louis Siminovitch, the art of science

Algonquin college

Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program Louis Siminovitch was a lover of science, while his wife, Elinore, had a passion for plays and critical thought. It was a marriage of science and art – one that would later take shape in the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre – a prestigious award given to the best in Canadian theatre. Louis Siminovitch was a pioneer in the field of genetics, paving the way to our current understanding of modern medicine while his wife was an innovative playwright

Photo of Ransom Meyers. Author: David Hardie.

Earth & Environment

The last big fish in the ocean

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program In Finding Nemo, Nemo was the only clown fish to survive, even though his mother spawned thousands of eggs. Marine biologist Ransom Myers was the one who discovered that even though female fish spawn countless eggs each year, only three to five of their young will reach full maturity and reproduce. Who knew that the son of a cotton planter from Mississippi would grow up to become a famous marine biologist and conservationist working on Canada’s

McCurdy sits in a Curtiss JN-4 bi-plane in 1911. Source: City of Toronto Archives Photo, Fonds 1244, Item 79.

J.A.D. McCurdy: Reaching new heights

Algonquin college

Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program John Alexander Douglas McCurdy was the first Canadian to ever pilot an aircraft. Not only that, but he was the first person to fly a plane so far over the sea that he couldn’t see the shore. His goal was to fly over the Straights of Florida from Key West to Havana – thus setting a new world record for distance flown over open water. The Havana Post and the city of Havana, Cuba, had offered McCurdy $8,000 to be the first person to fly the 94-mile

Lawrence Morley played a role in developing and supporting the theory of plate tectonics.

Earth & Environment

When rocks were controversial

Algonquin college

Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program When Lawrence Morley first attempted to prove that plate tectonics could be solved by a mysterious undersea phenomenon, his theory was met with complete denial. It was not until months later, when two geophysics students at the University of Cambridge proposed a similar idea, that Nature, an eminent science journal, published the ground breaking conclusion. Today, plate tectonics help us to understand our planet’s history even better. The concept

Photograph of Lieutenant-General Andrew McNaughton taken in March of 1942, a few years before he became Canada's Minister of Defence. From the National Archives of Canada - reference number PA-132648.

Engineering & Technology

Andrew McNaughton, outsmarting the enemy

Algonquin college

Daniel Prinn Algonquin College Journalism Program During World War I Andrew McNaughton was an artillery specialist and later a counter-battery staff officer of the Canadian Corps. When most thought locating an enemy’s heavy artillery was simply impossible, McNaughton was able to apply scientific methods of artillery warfare to locate enemy guns. He used methods such as sound ranging, which was a way of locating the enemy guns by using the data from the sound of the gunfire. McNaughton’s

Margaret Newton devoted her life to eradicating wheat rust. She helped Canada’s economy by almost completely reducing revenue loss from the fungus.

Saving Canada’s wheat

Algonquin college

Molly Gatt Algonquin College Journalism Program In 1916, Canada had its worst season for wheat with 200 million dollars in loss from bad crops. The crops were infected with a wheat rust organism also known as a fungus, which made the grain unusable. That same year, Margaret Newton, in her second year of university, was part of the first team to study wheat rust. From then on Newton would devote 25 years of her life to pathology and studying rust spores to save Canada’s wheat. In 1922 Newton was

Ernest McCulloch assisted with the discovery of stem cells.

Proving that stem cells exist: the experiments that changed how we understand the human body

Algonquin college

Bryson Masse Algonquin College Journalism Program When Dr. Ernest McCulloch began studying the effects of nuclear radiation on the human body, he was not looking to discover the source of blood cells. But as he examined the mice used in the study, McCulloch noticed small collections of the cells, growing sort of like bacteria. Through ingenuity and hard work, McCulloch and his partner, Dr. James Till, were the first to show the world that we could understand and maybe even use this fundamental

Page

First page
…
Page 17
Page 18
Page 19
Page 20
Current page 21
Page 22
Page 23
Page 24
Page 25
…
Last page

Footer

About The Channel

Contact Us

Ingenium
P.O. Box 9724, Station T
Ottawa ON K1G 5A3
Canada

contact@IngeniumCanada.org

Facebook
Instagram
Twitter

Channel
Visit
Ingenium
For Media
- Newsroom
- Awards

Connect with us

Subscribe to our newsletter to receive the latest Ingenium news straight to your inbox!

Legal Bits

Privacy Statement

© 2025 Ingenium

Browse
About
- About The Channel
- Content Partners