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Home Issue 9, October 2006Science for Your WorldOctober 13 to 22 is National Science and Technology Week. In this issue of Natural Elements, you’ll learn about the amazing and important work scientists from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) are doing with industry and other partners to meet the real challenges of your world. Read on
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How would you approach energy conservation if you ran an oil refinery or a paper mill? Surprisingly, it’s really not very complicated. 
Thanks to technology developed by NRCan’s Canadian Forest Service, insect specimens from a mere fraction of a millimetre to several centimetres long can now be captured in perfect focus. 
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? In the future, cybermaps could answer that question. 
A high-resolution mosaic of images of Canada can now be downloaded to virtually any computer thanks to compression technology. 
