Some things happen every year, like celestial clockwork — the slow shifting of the constellations, regularly-scheduled meteor showers, and the phases of the moon. Those can be interesting enough, but it’s the rarer events...
Canada’s Big Nickel, located at Dynamic Earth in Sudbury, Ontario, is a beloved Canadian icon. At about 64.5 million times the size of a real Canadian nickel, it is the largest coin in the...
Turquoise, the traditional birthstone for the month of December, is a treasured gemstone dating back thousands of years. Very few minerals have a colour that is so well known that the name of the...
Normally when we think of bees, we think spring time, flowers, summer buzzing noises…but what about in winter? Where do the bees go? Honeybees stick out the winter months inside their hive. They group...
There was a time when any yellow gemstone would be called topaz. Today, the word topaz refers to a silicate mineral that contains aluminum and fluorine, Al2SiO4(F,OH)2. With a hardness of 8 topaz is...
The Moon’s orbit is slightly elliptical and it’s distance from Earth changes over time. At perigee (it’s closest point to us on Earth) it is 50 000 km closer than at apogee (it’s furthest...
Virtual Reality is on the cutting edge for gaming technology today: it uses a headset to immerse the player within a completely virtual world that they can then explore and manipulate. The tech is...
Science North has partnered with the City of Greater Sudbury, Friends of Lake Laurentian, and Earth Care Sudbury to bring to you the coolest list ever: 50 Things To Do Before You’re 12! This...
October’s gemstone, opal, is a very colourful, iridescent and eye-catching stone that can range in colour from fiery reds and deep blues to crystal clear wonders. Geologists have classified opals into five main categories:...
