Research

Chris Harvey-Clark and a friend were swimming through waters just outside the mouth of Halifax Harbour when a great white shark passed by. When the animal circled back for a second and then third look, the divers knew it was time to get back to their boat as quickly as they could.

Research suggests punishing tax cheats can re-establish a sense of justice among the general public, so authorities should use their resources to ensure culpable offenders are held accountable, writes Dal's Tisha King.

Parasitic wasps are body-snatchers — if you’re an insect. But these much-maligned creatures have saved millions of human lives by controlling the spread of the cassava mealybug, write Shelley Adamo and Dylan Miller.

A Dal-based big data research platform has joined forces with an influential local marine technology accelerator to launch a new event series next month that challenges students to put ocean data to work in solving real-world problems.

Françoise Baylis has been named to a prestigious multidisciplinary committee that will plan the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing being held in London next year.