
People & Culture
First Nations turn to tech to save endangered languages
The latest app from FirstVoices allows users to type, text and post to social media in more than 100 indigenous languages
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The latest app from FirstVoices allows users to type, text and post to social media in more than 100 indigenous languages
People & Culture
Urbanist Robin Mazumder reviews Quayside, the new ‘smart’ neighbourhood on Toronto’s eastern waterfront
People & Culture
From pulling drinking water out of desert air to riding with eagle hunters in Mongolia, see what just a few of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society’s more than 1,000 Fellows have been working on lately
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Depending on whom you ask, the North’s sentinel species is either on the edge of extinction or an environmental success story. An in-depth look at the complicated, contradictory and controversial science behind the sound bites
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“We cannot sit on the sidelines anymore,” says Tom Rand, author of The Case for Climate Capitalism
History
Remote sensing and remote controlled underwater vehicles have brought the search into the 21st century
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Why this summer’s search for the lost ships of the Franklin Expedition will be the biggest and most advanced ever
History
This year's search is about much more than underwater archaeology. The Victoria Strait Expedition will contribute to northern science and communities.
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This summer’s Victoria Strait Expedition will bring cutting edge technology and unprecedented resources to the search for the lost ships of the Franklin Expedition
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Exploration
A conversation with Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques, who is getting ready to travel to the International Space Station
Exploration
Four researchers team up to ascend Mount Logan, measuring change and resilience on Canada’s highest peak
Exploration
A team of climbers and scientists plan to summit the Yukon’s Mount Logan next spring in the name of climate change — and to re-evaluate its height with modern GPS technology
Exploration
CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen says space exploration represents a major economic opportunity for Canada
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Environment
Custom-made nanoscale systems can use precision chemistry to achieve high-efficiency delivery of fertilizers or pesticides
Environment
Already gaining steam before the pandemic, interest in urban farming — and hunger for hyper-local food — has soared. A look at three Canadian takes on the urban farming phenomenon
Environment
Uninterrupted, a digital art installation planned for Vancouver's Cambie Street Bridge, hopes to inspire conservation efforts
Environment
Ten years after the release of her seminal book Sea Sick, Alanna Mitchell again plumbs the depths of the latest research on the health of the world’s oceans — and comes up gasping
Emerging satellite and imaging technologies may help limit the increasing risks to Arctic shipping and exploration
02The Canadian innovation that pulls drinking water out of thin air
03Advanced Canadian sonar technology takes crystal-clear pictures of arctic sea floor during the 2014 Franklin search
04Des techniques novatrices permettent de surveiller les ours polaires sans les perturber
Travel
Can Geo staff tested three styles of lightweight but warm winter boots
Travel
An insider’s account of the modern-day gold rush
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The Nikon 1J5 camera is compact, lightweight and takes great photos
Travel
Upper Fort Garry Heritage Provincial Park aims to bring history to life with new technological installation
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Wildlife
A Vancouver-based company is studying the morpho butterfly to create an image impossible to counterfeit
Wildlife
Silicon Valley software developers and B.C. conservation biologists create a facial recognition technology with photos of bears in B.C. and Alaska
Wildlife
International grassroots organizations unite over turtle conservation
Wildlife
New technology is helping researchers understand how birds time their migrations when the seasons send mixed signals
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These dirigibles might be the solution to transportation challenges in the changing North
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Environment
Experts say global reforestation is one of our best defences against climate change, so a Toronto-based company is developing drones that can get the job done quickly
Kids
Across Canada, teachers are getting creative with their methods and approaches in the classroom to overcome challenges imposed by COVID-19
Places
After 26 months of construction and $80 million in upgrades, the national science and innovation showcase in Ottawa promises to connect the past and the future
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Environmental entrepreneur Miranda Wang turns to science to seek profitable solutions to the problem of what to do with our mountains of plastic waste
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What is LiDAR technology? And how does it work?
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A Canadian team took the top spot for most fuel-efficient vehicle and another won the Off-Track Communications Award
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The OSIRIS-REx probe carries a Canadian instrument that will help it map the surface of a near-earth asteroid
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How so-called rare earth elements are powering our modern tech — and where to find them
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How has Ontario's green energy shift affected the province? What have been the effects of oil prices' decline in Canada? Perrin Beatty weighs in.
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Take a look under the hood of a prototype vehicle and learn how teams prepare for the Eco-marathon
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Canadian teams have historically performed well in the competition, which challenges students to create a vehicle that can travel far using little energy
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The unmanned vehicle will collect imagery and data of the surface the moon
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What does it take to operate high-tech scientific facilities — including live-study growing chambers and necropsy, genomics and imaging labs — in Canada’s Arctic?
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Canada is taking to space in the fight against illegal fishing
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As climate change accelerates Arctic melt, the ice is offering up its secrets
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How Hydro-Quebec is turning problems into opportunities for innovation
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Researchers get creative in their quest to make the next big breakthrough in green energy
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How computers are replacing humans to forecast the weather
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Lancés plus tard cette année à Clyde River (Nunavut), des atlas numériques des toponymes inuits, des habitats fauniques, des études scientifiques et de bien plus encore profitent déjà aux collectivités dans l’Arctique
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Set to launch later this year in Clyde River, Nunavut, digital atlases of Inuit place names, wildlife habitat, scientific studies and more are already benefiting communities in the Arctic
Kids
From phytoplankton to drones, citizen science in the remote Svalbard wilderness is contributing to research around the world
Environment
Ghost gear — lost or abandoned fishing gear — is a major problem in our oceans, but renewed efforts are underway to clean it up
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As climate change accelerates Arctic melt, the ice is offering up its secrets
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Categories for hydrogen and battery-electric cars attract teams interested in shaping the future of fuel
Wildlife
And moreover, should it? Plus: Dinosaur fight club, birds about town, and tracking whale whoops
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What if we told you the car of the future may have already been invented?
Mapping
Vaccines, treatments and virus mapping are all underway
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With Canada set to ban single-use plastics by 2022, products made of cellulose — a major component of plants — could be the ideal alternative
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The students’ device will compete at an international innovation competition June 18 to 20
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The uncertainty and change that's currently disrupting the region dominated the annual meeting's agenda
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A professor at Queen's University has developed new technology that transmits life-sized, 3D images of a person from one place to another
Mapping
New map allows Edmontonians to explore the ages of the buildings in their city
Wildlife
One thing researchers weren't expecting to find: yellow perch cannabalism
Environment
A new book aims to solve nature-deficit disorder and reconnect kids with the natural world
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Satellite navigation is fallible and our ubiquitous reliance on it is eroding our natural way finding abilities, argues Roger McKinlay
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Canadian scientists are joining an international team in Antarctica to study the health risks of long-term space missions
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Unmanned aerial vehicles are controversial; we explore their pros and cons
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The latest update in diving suit technology
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An underground Toronto lab is trying to make it easier for us to get around town
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Wind power is fueling the push to green diamond mines in the Northwest Territories
Environment
How “Photography 3.0” is helping us understand the world through a new lens