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Erin Secord holds up an example of a hazardous artifact. Oil for a printing machine in a bag.

Industrial Technology

Behind the scenes: Conservators face unique task handling hazardous artifacts

Bill Weiler, a member of the Bytown Railway Society, stains wood planks in preparation for the restoration of the 1924 daycoach.

Engineering & Technology

Volunteer Week: Bytown Railway Society preserves a passion for locomotives

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.

A young girl holds up her STEAM Horizon Award, with a microscope in the background.

Engineering & Technology

Awards program seeks Canada’s brightest young minds

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

The final search is on to find this year’s most inspiring Canadian teens — with a passion for science and technology. The 2019 STEAM Horizon Awards invite youth ages 16 to 18 to promote positive changes throughout their communities using science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM). The application deadline for this year’s awards program is January 16, 2019.

The remnants of an owl and cobra are frozen in the middle of a battle.

Social Science & Culture

Boo! The spooky science of Halloween

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

In honour of Halloween, check out these eerie science stories — designed to give you goosebumps! See some amazing skeletal images from a biologist and functional morphologist, read the diary of a snake expert doomed to death from a venomous bite, hear about the neuroscience of spooky songs, and more in this harrowing collection from Science Friday.

Kirsty Duncan, TED Talks 2018

Engineering & Technology

Scientists must be free to learn, to speak and to challenge

"Science is humanity's best effort at uncovering the truth about our world, about our very existence." Kirsty Duncan, Canada's Minister of Science, makes the case that researchers must be free to present uncomfortable truths and challenge the thinking of the day -- and that we all have a duty to speak up when we see science being stifled or suppressed. #ScienceAroundMe

Engineering & Technology

Waleed Sawan - Drip - A Precision Irrigation System for the Developing World

Waleed Sawan - London, ON - Oakridge Secondary School Project: Drip - A Precision Irrigation System for the Developing World

Crystal Radinski

Crystal Radinski - Task-related EEG Coherence as a Marker of Alzheimer’s Dementia

Crystal Radinski - Calgary, AB - Webber Academy Project: Task-related EEG Coherence as a Marker of Alzheimer’s Dementia

Tasnia Nabil - A Novel Computational Solution to Advance Ferromagnetic NanoTherapy to Cure Cancer

Tasnia Nabil - Windsor, ON - Vincent Massey Secondary School Project: A Novel Computational Solution to Advance Ferromagnetic NanoTherapy to Cure Cancer

Engineering & Technology

Danish Mahmood - Wireless Interconnected Non-Invasive Triage System

Danish Mahmood - London, ON - London Central Secondary School Project: W.I.N.I.T.S. (Wireless Interconnected Non-Invasive Triage System)