Canada & the UK: Great Partners in Science

From space to deep underground, the best science relies on international collaboration. Our countries make natural partners.

A changing climate is challenging the way farmers grow crops. The UK's Harper Adams University is working with Canadian researchers to share ideas, including how to use advanced farming robots.

British ESA astronaut Tim Peake took part in a Canadian experiment while on-board the International Space Station. Researchers are studying the effects of ageing and immobility in space to help people on Earth with reduced mobility.

Credit: ESA/NASA

The universities of Durham and Toronto are working together to map the dark matter clusters of the galaxy with the 'Balloon Imaging Telescope'. This ingenious apparatus can take pictures from above the Earth’s atmosphere.

Credit: Durham University

Working with the University of Toronto and Sick Kids hospital, researchers at the University of Reading are making strides in understanding how to prevent dangerous blood clots, known as thrombosis. In so doing, they've captured the almost otherworldly beauty of megakaryocyte producing platelets.

Credit: Dr. Marilena Crescente/ Dr. Fred Pluthero

Deep underground, British and Canadian scientists are working together at the SNOLAB in Sudbury. They are taking on the challenge of detecting the dark matter all around us by measuring elusive neutrinos.

Simon Peeters, University of Sussex

Britain and Canada share a rich history of working together in the Arctic and Antarctic. British researchers in Antarctica depend on specially adapted Canadian planes to deliver essential supplies and carry out airborne science surveys in this extreme climate.