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Posts Filed Under: Science

An Art-and-Science Discussion Dives Deep

The Royal Ontario Museum brought artists and scientists together for an evening of free-flowing discussion.

By Rachel Lissner

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Yo La Tengo’s Underwater Adventure

Hoboken band closes out the Images Festival with a little help from Mantler, and science.

By Kevin Scott • Photos by Corbin Smith

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Prehistoric Toronto: The Terrain of Our City Through the Ages

What was happening here hundred of millions of years ago?

By Daniel Sellers • Illustrations by Chloe Cushman

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Prehistoric Toronto: The Missing Rock Record

All manner of fantastical creature populated the Earth for 450 million years between the mid-Paleozoic and late-Cenozoic eras. Unfortunately, placing any of them in Toronto is simply impossible.

By Daniel Sellers • Illustration by Chloe Cushman

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Prehistoric Toronto: The Paleozoic Era

A brave creature crawls across a primeval seafloor that will one day be Toronto.

By Daniel Sellers • Illustration by Chloe Cushman

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The Greatest Dinosaurs You’ve Never Seen

As new fossils continue to turn up in previously underexplored places, the ROM prepares for a summer showcase of the Southern Hemisphere's most awe-inspiring dinos.

By Daniel Sellers • Photos by Lodoe-Laura Haines-Wangda

The Cryolophosaurus inhabited present-day Antarctica.
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Saving the Space Rocks

The annual ROM research colloquium reveals local researchers' competitive edge on the study of meteorites.

By Kelli Korducki • Photo by Miles Storey

A Leonid meteorite over Toronto, in 2009.
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The Winter That Wouldn’t Be

Mild temperatures, cold rain, and snowless sidewalks have characterized winter in Toronto this time around. So far.

By Daniel Sellers

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Preparing for the Robot Invasion, One LEGO Block at a Time

Future innovators learn the basics of robotics at the Ontario Science Centre's Robots Rule! Weekend.

By Sarah-Joyce Battersby

Before sending things to space, roboticists play with lego.
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A Summer Guide to Popsicle Melt Times

By Steve Kupferman

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So Can We Vacation in Space Yet or What?

By Max Hartshorn

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Unseen City: ROM Collections and Research Building

By Steve Kupferman • Photos by Michael Chrisman

The guts of the ROM's new powder diffractometer, a tool for the studying the crystal structure of minerals.

Urban Planner: March 3, 2011

By Joanne Dang

Urban Planner: March 2, 2011

By Rebecca Vandevelde

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Is the Ontario Science Centre Whale Exhibit Worth the Trip?

By Max Hartshorn • Photos by Corbin Smith

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InteraXon Lets You Control Things with Your Mind

By Max Hartshorn

2010 Hero: The Human-Powered Ornithopter Team

By Max Hartshorn

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Things We Learned From the City’s 2010 Bicycle Count Report

By Steve Kupferman

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U of T Physicists Unleash “Supernova in a Jar”

By Max Hartshorn

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U of T’s Hidden Planetarium

By Steve Kupferman