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The success stories featured in Science at Work for Canada, the 2004-2005 annual report, highlight just a few of NRC's achievements and their impact on the lives of Canadians.
Katrina's recent flooding in the United States reminds us of the devastating power of flood waters. In Canada, Manitobans have also experienced, on a smaller scale the wrath of flood waters. Demonstrating science at work for Canada, NRC researchers are helping protect Manitobans from future natural disasters.
NRC launches its twelfth edition of the National Construction Codes, with many improvements, including technical updates and new information that will make them clearer, easier to apply to existing buildings and more accommodating to innovation.
Using customized optical microscopy, NRC scientists have a front row seat to watch heart cells in action. Their article, published in Nature Chemical Biology, shows how receptors on heart muscle cells respond to hormonal signals from their environment.
Recently, terrorist threats to national security have grown significantly. From bomb sniffing technologies to vaccines that disarm biological agents, several research teams at NRC are working on means to counter terrorism and ensure the safety of Canadians.
To shed some light on the nature of science and scientific discoveries, NRC Highlights recently e-mailed a series of questions to NRC researchers whose work we have profiled as part of the monthly Highlights.
 NRC Helps Welcome Home a Great Canadian Innovation: Original Electric Wheelchair Returns to Ottawa
Fifty years ago the Government of Canada presented the U.S. Veterans Administration with the prototype of the first working electric wheelchair for quadriplegic patients. Recently, that original chair returned home to be displayed at the Canada Science and Technology Museum.
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