Microscopic discoveries on GAME FOR SCIENCE!

Every time you eat cheese, stay healthy because of a vaccine or fight a disease with antibiotics, you owe it to biosciences. What do you know of biosciences?

Maybe you already know about bacteria but could you differentiate a spirochete from a coccus? Did you know that not all viruses prey on complex organisms? Some viruses prey on bacteria!

GAME FOR SCIENCE is a great place to hang out in if you want to learn more about biosciences. Starting this week, we’ll be adding 1 new game every week through collaboration with the Musée Armand-Frappier.

This week, we invite you to try out a memory game called Bacterium, virus and company. You will learn how different microorganisms look like. Once you get the hang of it, try it on intermediate level, where you will discover what those microorganisms do. What’s more, you’ll improve your short-term memory doing so. Have fun!

All aboard Grand Star!

Science-fiction has always existed in the light of advances in science. In Grand Star’s post-apocalyptical epic story, after events that we won’t spoil for you, the Earth lies under a crust of the Moon’s dust. The dusty atmosphere blocks sunlight from reaching down where humans live. A new ice age forces the survivors to live in globe-covered cities linked together by all-powerful train companies.

Try to imagine a world where winter never stops.

There are two ways you can visit this universe impossible to imagine without science and based on Georges-Jean Arnaud’s books. First, you can catch the TV series Sunday at noon and Saturday at noon on Télé-Québec. You can also play the strategy game we showcase here on gameforscience. The game is a lot of fun whether you’re a fan of the series or not.

It is a strategy game, available both in single and multiplayer modes. You want to try it? Step into the arcade. It is loaded in a machine on the first floor.

Blast off to M.A.R.S.!

A couple weeks ago, we invited you to try out to see if you’d make the cut as one of the first astronauts to set foot on Mars.

Did you? It might have sounded silly at the time : how can playing a game bring you closer to your dreams?

However, when astronaut Julie Payette told us that the dream of a career in science is often sparked by something grounded in our daily lives, and limited only by our ambition, we figured we’d extend a much larger invitation to M.A.R.S.

We dusted off the corners in our training facilities, saw that there are still a couple CD-ROMs that haven’t been found yet and fun things to undertake.

Our partners, Telefilm Canada, the Commission scolaire de Montréal (CSDM), École des métiers de l’aérospatiale de Montréal (EMAM) and la station de vulgarisation et de loisirs scientifiques du Bas-Saint-Laurent (ASTER), extend the challenge. You never know what you might find out about your future on Mars.

Get ready to blast off to M.A.R.S.! The official launch of the experience is this Thursday, April 9th. Visit http://www.gameforscience.ca/mars to embark!