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A composite image made up of three pictures: an interstellar comet, a pile of tomatoes, and green bins lining street.

Earth & Environment

3 things you should know — October edition

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Michelle Campbell Mekarski. These Ingenium employees are professional science communicators, and provide expert advice on key subjects relating to our three museums — the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this new monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science communicators offer up three quirky nuggets related to their areas of expertise. For the October edition, they

An image of a satellite in space, microplastics, and soybeans.

Earth & Environment

3 things you should know — September edition

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Michelle Campbell Mekarski. These Ingenium employees are professional science communicators, and provide expert advice on key subjects relating to our three museums — the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this new monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science communicators offer up three quirky nuggets related to their areas of expertise. For the September edition,

A composite image made up of three pictures: David Saint-Jacques, a barren desert, and a grocery store customer.

Earth & Environment

3 things you should know — July edition

Jesse Rogerson, PhD

Canada Aviation and Space Museum

Meet Renée-Claude Goulet, Jesse Rogerson, and Kyrke Gaudreau. This all-star trio works as Ingenium’s science advisors, providing expert advice on key subjects relating to our three museums — the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, and the Canada Science and Technology Museum. In this new monthly blog series, Ingenium’s science advisors offer up three quirky nuggets related to their area of expertise. For the July edition, they tackled how blockchain

A man studies the ice under the surface of a rock face.

Earth & Environment

Arctic Roads: Canada in a Changing Climate

An artist's rendering of an urban centre; trees dot the landscape.

Earth & Environment

Urban trees

A mannequin sits in a red sports car, with the Earth in the background.

Engineering & Technology

The top 10 science and environment stories of 2018

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

If you didn’t get the chance to read as many science stories as you would have liked in 2018, fear not: CBC has compiled its top 10 list just for you. From the discovery of an ancient Mayan city to evidence of Planet X, there’s no shortage of fascinating stories to review.

An image of ocean waves

Earth & Environment

A Frenchman and an ocean full of plastic

Lindsay Wolcott

Ever heard of plastic smog? This article calls attention to the global use, pollution, and production of single-use plastics – and the undertaking of Benoit Lecomte, a French swimmer, to swim across the Pacific Ocean. Lecomte’s feat, if successful, will not only make him the first person to do so, but the journey will act as an opportunity to study (and as a glaring reminder of) pollution in the ocean. Among the threats and obstacles Lecomte will face as he traverses the ocean are densely

An orange and purple coral reef

Earth & Environment

Sunscreen is damaging a vital ecosystem: Coral reefs

Lindsay Wolcott

When the mercury rises, most of us reach for the sunscreen – believing we are doing something positive by protecting against cancer-causing rays. But research shows that oxybenzone—a common ingredient in sunscreen—is disrupting coral’s reproduction and growth cycles. The good news is there are alternatives that, if implemented, could save the precious ecosystem of coral reefs around the world.

Engineering & Technology

Emerging tech: Bacteria-based sensors could detect pipeline leaks

Emerging tech: Honeybee habitats can now be inside your home

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

A new product will soon enable novice beekeepers to keep honeybees inside their houses. The BEEcosystem is modular honeybee habitat that can be hung almost anywhere; it simply needs to be placed near a window if inside, or in a sheltered location outside. Watch a video that shows how the technology works.