About "Science & Technology"
The newest Canadian research and technological advances that are changing the way we understand and interact with our environment and each other.
Drew Feustel records a video inside the Kibo laboratory module on the space station in late September. (Photo: NASA Johnson)
Nathalie Lasselin recently completed a 70-kilometre dive along the entire length of Montreal Island, part of her Urban Water Odyssey expedition to explore the St. Lawrence, test for pollutants and raise awareness of the critical importance of the river. Read on to see what a few of the Society’s other Fellows have been working on this year. (Photo: Nathalie Lasselin)
In their new book “Adventures in Memory: The Science and Secrets of Remembering and Forgetting,” sisters Ylva and Hilde Østby explore the rich but elusive terrain of human memory and its connection to place. (Author photo: Anna-Julia Granberg; cover image courtesy Greystone Books)
A fragment of the Tagish Lake meteorite, which exploded above B.C. and the Yukon in January 2000 and landed in pieces on a frozen lake. The estimated 4.55 billion-year-old rock contains clues to the formation of the solar system. (Photo: Chris Herd)
Teachers tend to children sick with Spanish Flu at Collège La Salle in Thetford Mines, Que. (Photo: Centre d’archives de la région de Thetford - Fonds Galerie de nos ancêtres de l’or blanc, Donateur: Juliette Dallaire)
A new exhibit at the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa showcases 20 trailblazing Canadian women scientists who broke down gender barriers to attain career success. (Photo: Jensen Edwards/Canadian Geographic)
The bigleaf maple is highly sought by poachers in North America because of the unique marbling pattern in its wood. (Photo: John B. Hanle)
An engineer at MDA in Montreal makes adjustments to one of three new satellites that will orbit Earth for seven years as part of the Canadian Space Agency’s newest RADARSAT mission. (Photo: Ossie Michelin/Canadian Geographic)
BlackFly has been in development secretly for the past nine years by OPENER, an aviation company founded in Warkworth, Ont. and now based in Palo Alto, California. (Photo: Courtesy OPENER)
Mobile research labs operating in the vicinity of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. (Photo: Arctic Research Foundation)
