Problématiques environnementales dans un territoire exceptionnel: les enjeux du développement durable au Nunavik

July 17, 2023 Yvan Dutil General Science, Physics and Astronomy, Policy and Politics

Problématiques environnementales dans un territoire exceptionnel: les enjeux du développement durable au Nunavik Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Ing Durable et en écoconception (LIRIDE) lun 17/07/2023 - 15:39 Blogue Environnement LIRIDE

Journal de bord de notre cerveau à tous les niveaux: la descente du larynx probablement non essentielle au langage

July 17, 2023 Yvan Dutil General Science, Physics and Astronomy, Policy and Politics

Journal de bord de notre cerveau à tous les niveaux: la descente du larynx probablement non essentielle au langage Le cerveau à tous les niveaux lun 17/07/2023 - 12:45 Blogue Biologie Le cerveau à tous les niveaux

On Bluesky? Follow the new SciArt Feed

July 8, 2023 Glendon Mellow General Science, Multimedia

Over on Bluesky, I've launched the SciArt Feed. Now, people can freely subscribe and slide over to a feed of amazing imagery from scientific illustration to fine art; paleoart to comics; bioart to ceramics.Once I add artists to the list, all they have to do is add #SciArt or 🐡 to their skeets, and posts...

3 choses à savoir sur l’utilisation des mêmes terres agricoles pour produire des cultures ET de l’énergie solaire, sur la « vision » surhumaine des conservateurs de musée et sur la fabrication de frites dans l’espace

July 6, 2023 Ingenium (Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation) General Science

Dans cette captivante série mensuelle de billets publiés sur le blogue, les conseillères scientifiques d’Ingenium présentent des « pépites » d’information insolite en lien avec leur champ d’expertise respectif. Michelle Campbell Mekarski a invité Jacqueline Riddle, restauratrice chez Ingenium, à contribuer. Ce mois-ci, nos experts expliquent comment les futurs astronautes pourront faire cuire des frites...

3 Things you should know about using the same farmland for producing crops AND solar energy, museum conservators’ superhuman “vision,” and making french fries in space

July 6, 2023 Ingenium (Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation) General Science

For this July edition, we explain how future astronauts may be able to cook french fries in space, how technology gives museum conservators superhuman “vision,” and how the same farmland can be used to grow food crops and to “harvest” electricity from solar energy.

#629 How birds go the distance

July 5, 2023 Rachelle Saunders General Science, Multimedia

Birds carry out some of the most amazing feats of athleticism in the world. Hummingbirds cross the entire Gulf of Mexico, their tiny wings beating continuously for three days straight. A single bird will fly across the entire Pacific ocean in one go. What do we really know about bird migration, and how do we...

Dinosaur skin

June 25, 2023June 25, 2023 Sci/Why Communication, Education and Outreach, General Science

Did you think that fossils were all bones and nothing more? Nope! Some fossils are impressions left of footprints or tracks. Other fossils are impressions left by skin textures. Sometimes even the tissues of an animal can be preserved, or visible in the fossil. It can be hard to figure out what we're looking at...

#628 Brave the Wild River

June 19, 2023 Rachelle Saunders General Science, Multimedia

In 1938, two botanists, Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, made an ambitious voyage down the Colorado River driven by the desire to chronicle the plant life of the American Southwest. In her new book Brave the Wild River, science journalist Melissa Sevigny traces their expedition through the Grand Canyon, which led them through seething rapids...

#627 Ancient Migrations

June 5, 2023 Rachelle Saunders General Science, Multimedia

Humans are a roaming species. We've been traveling from continent to continent since our very earliest evolution. In fact, we've been doing it even before we were humans. This week, we're talking with archaeologist Radu Iovita about the ancient silk road, a travel network that was in use tens of thousands of years ago, and...

2 Things you should know about an integrated aquaculture system and discovering more of Saturn’s moons

May 31, 2023 Ingenium (Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation) General Science

For this June edition, our experts explain how recreating nature's recycling system can lead to greener aquaculture, and how more of Saturn's moons were recently discovered.

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Problématiques environnementales dans un territoire exceptionnel: les enjeux du développement durable au Nunavik

Journal de bord de notre cerveau à tous les niveaux: la descente du larynx probablement non essentielle au langage

On Bluesky? Follow the new SciArt Feed

3 choses à savoir sur l’utilisation des mêmes terres agricoles pour produire des cultures ET de l’énergie solaire, sur la « vision » surhumaine des conservateurs de musée et sur la fabrication de frites dans l’espace

3 Things you should know about using the same farmland for producing crops AND solar energy, museum conservators’ superhuman “vision,” and making french fries in space

#629 How birds go the distance

Dinosaur skin

#628 Brave the Wild River

#627 Ancient Migrations

2 Things you should know about an integrated aquaculture system and discovering more of Saturn’s moons

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