News, National Research Council Canada

Local, Digital and Growth-Oriented

2012-02-09T05:00:00Z

2012/02/09, -

Boreal Laser Inc.

Edmonton, Alberta

Online tool boosts productivity of translators

2012-02-01T05:00:00Z

2012/02/01, Ottawa, Ontario -

WeBiText could be saving the Canadian translation industry millions of dollars each year.

National research collaboration to battle prion-related diseases

2012-02-01T05:00:00Z

2012/02/01, Ottawa, Ontario -

NRC titanium foam promises better treatment for scaphoid fractures

2012-02-01T05:00:00Z

2012/02/01, Ottawa, Ontario -

Sheldon Souray — a big NHL defenceman with a booming slapshot — has been injured many times during his career and has twice had surgery to repair fractures to the scaphoid, a thimble-sized bone at the base of the thumb. Such injuries, which usually occur when a person throws out their hands to break a fall, are very common but notoriously difficult to treat.

A Rising Star

2012-01-19T05:00:00Z

2012/01/19, -

Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Answering the Call

2012-01-05T05:00:00Z

2012/01/05, -

Wolf Steel Inc.

Barrie, Ontario

Record-breaking organic solar cells, one step closer to commercialization

2012-01-03T05:00:00Z

2012/01/03, Ottawa, Ontario -

Diamond quantum number generator: a gem for secure encryption

2012-01-03T05:00:00Z

2012/01/03, Ottawa, Ontario -

Faced with the baffling randomness of quantum mechanical theory a half-century ago, Albert Einstein famously argued that God wouldn’t play dice with the universe. Yet in the depths of a building on Sussex Drive in Ottawa, a team of NRC physicists is now rolling “cosmic dice” fast and furiously.

Powering tomorrow's aircraft

2012-01-03T05:00:00Z

2012/01/03, Ottawa, Ontario -

It looked, smelled and tasted like ordinary coffee, but the way it was brewed was anything but ordinary. On November 22, the National Research Council (NRC) and Boeing Commercial Airplanes made a pot of coffee with hydrogen power, showing that hydrogen fuel cells could be used to provide electricity on board aircraft.

Simplifying the lives of visually impaired people through innovation

2011-12-22T05:00:00Z

2011/12/22, -

Technologies HumanWare inc.

Drummondville, Québec

An Overnight Success

2011-12-08T05:00:00Z

2011/12/08, -

Quark Engineering and Development Inc.

Halifax, Nova Scotia

245 changes to help Canadians build greener

2011-12-05T05:00:00Z

2011/12/05, Ottawa, Ontario -

Some 245 technical changes have been made to the 2011 National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings to accommodate new technologies and construction practices that have emerged in Canada over the past 15 years.