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A spliced photo, from left to right: Shaun the Sheep in front of a model of ESA’s European Service Module, a top view into a red bucket containing thousands of light-brown, rod-shaped pellets, and a toddler wearing a wool hat and wool sweater holds a grownup’s finger.

3 things you should know about why wool keeps us warm, and about its surprising uses in the garden and in space.

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and…

For the March edition, we explain why wool keeps us warm, how it can be used to improve soil, and how it can help prevent fires in spacecraft!

A three-part, spliced image of a parched and cracked area of soil, an atom encircled with electrons, and the surface of the Moon.

3 things you should know about salty soil, invisibility, and Canada’s lunar rover

Michelle Campbell Mekarski, PhD

Canada Science and Technology Museum

For the December edition, they explored the problem with high salinity levels in agricultural soils, a breakthrough in invisibility, and the emerging designs for the Canadian Lunar Rover Mission.

A cartoon-style graphic of two hands holding a tablet; the screen features an open book and some science-themed icons like a light bulb, a microscope, and a rocket ship.

Earth & Environment

Science Literacy Week explores science in our everyday lives

Ingenium - Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation

Hey educators! Help your students tap into their inner scientist…with fun and FREE resources during Science Literacy Week.

Close-up of a hand holding brown soil, a cosmic illustration of spaceships flying across colourful planets, a hiking trail that runs through a deciduous forest.

3 things you should know about soil biology, space tourism, and the healing power of nature

Cassandra Marion, PhD

Canada Aviation and…

For the July edition, we tackled organisms in our soil, what’s on the horizon for space tourism, and the fascinating link between nature and mental health.

Three images side-by-side, purple lavender blossoms, Ingenuity helicopter in flight, cicada close-up on a flower stock.

3 things you should know about lavender, the Ingenuity helicopter, and cicadas

Cassandra Marion, PhD

Canada Aviation and…

For the June edition, we tackle Ontario-grown lavender, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter on Mars, and the invasion of Brood X cicadas.

Three images side by side, microscopic view of plant cells, space debris burning up in the night sky, garbage on a beach.

3 things you should know about living inoculants, space debris, and an ocean of plastic waste

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and…

For the May edition, we examine a new product that could give your garden a boost, the growing issue of space debris, and the urgent need to address plastic waste in our world ocean.

Three images side by side, erosion rills in a field, venus, and a black-footed ferret,

3 things you should know about soil, Venus, and the black-footed ferret

Renée-Claude Goulet

Canada Agriculture and…

For the April edition, we dig into soil erosion, our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus, and the plight of the black-footed ferret.

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

The inside of the metal carrier for the soil test kit, and the label affixed to the lid.

A colourful, family history shines behind a soil test kit

Behind a single artifact, there are many interwoven stories.

A colourful image depicts a field of yellow alyssum; a fence and tall trees can be seen in the distance.

Nickel in a Haystack: The Adventures of an Oral Historian

Canada Science and Technology Museum

By William McRae When asked where metals such as nickel comes from, most people would tell you that it is found in the ground. Evidently it is a metal you mine. But what if I told you nickel can actually be grown? What if instead of mining the nickel ore, you were able to farm and harvest it every year? I was a little skeptical too, until I had a chance to sit down and chat with Dr. Bruce Conard, the man behind an unconventional initiative to clean up the surface soils of an Ontario community

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