Four excellent reasons for coming to Researchers’ Night
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November 6, 2024
Researchers’ Night is an event held once a year in Espace pour la vie museums, and each edition is, every time, a one-of-a-kind experience. Here are...Read more
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Valuing the ordinary: bugs, weeds and seagulls
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September 18, 2024
The natural world around us is a lot more diversified than we might think. And yet, most of us are familiar with very few of the species living in...Read more
From art to action: Be the artist of your own eco-responsible impact
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January 24, 2024
Uniting art and science in favor of zero waste On the initiative of Virginie Francoeur, and with the aim of raising wider public awareness, we were...Read more
How do we reconsider our land use and lifestyles over the next two decades?
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October 24, 2023
In late September, the Transition Pathways team unveiled the work of its Défi territoire (Territory Challenge) entitled Comment habiter le territoire...Read more
Do we really have to let dandelions grow?
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May 9, 2023
Dandelions have been making a major comeback in recent years. After a long period of being snubbed, the common dandelion ( Taraxacum officinale ) now...Read more
Feeding humankind without ruining the planet
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April 17, 2023
How do we healthfully feed more and more humans without exhausting the Earth’s resources in a context of climate change? It was in response to this...Read more
From volunteer to philanthropist for the Espace pour la vie museums
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April 17, 2023
In December 2022 the Espace pour la vie Foundation received a generous donation from Yves Paquette. That donation made it possible to purchase...Read more
Researcher anecdotes: cosmic predictions
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March 8, 2023
Auriane Egal is an astrophysicist and researcher at the Planétarium. It sometimes happens that people confuse her area of expertise with astrology,...Read more
The benefits of winter
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January 18, 2023
Like a lot of people in Québec, towards the end of October I’m discouraged when I see the days get less bright, feel the cold rain that goes right...Read more
COP15 in Montréal, a unique opportunity for preserving biodiversity
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December 7, 2022
Biodiversity is in danger. We need to act right now. According to a 2019 report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity...Read more
