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Popular workout supplement may blunt heart benefits of exercise in females, Dalhousie study finds

Popular workout supplement may blunt heart benefits of exercise in females, Dalhousie study finds

Dalhousie research suggests a popular nitrate supplement may hinder key exercise-driven heart improvements in females, highlighting overlooked sex differences and raising questions about long-term cardiovascular effects.  Read more.

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Kenneth Conrad
Friday, May 1, 2026
By better mimicking native conditions on campus, a multidisciplinary team unlocked seed production in an endangered aquatic plant, strengthening long‑term research, student training, and future discoveries.
Andrew Riley
Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Dalhousie researchers are tackling a critical climate question—whether the ocean can safely remove carbon dioxide at scale—while positioning Nova Scotia as a global leader in carbon removal innovation.
Andrew Riley
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Dalhousie is helping to prepare Canada’s defence community for AI-supported command and control, including fast developing Arctic surveillance scenarios, by simulating how humans and intelligent systems make decisions together under pressure.

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Stephen Abbott
Thursday, February 4, 2021
As part of African Heritage Month, Dal's Black Student Advising Centre hosted a talk this week with OmiSoore Dryden, the James R. Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies, on the impacts of racism on health, especially during the pandemic.
Michele Charlton
Monday, February 1, 2021
Meet the newest recipients of the Belong Research Fellowship Award, which provide pre-tenure, tenure-track faculty members from equity-seeking groups with support to further research in their respective fields.
Mary Jane Webber
Friday, January 29, 2021
Olivia Pisano, a Dalhousie PhD candidate in marine researcher Boris Worm's lab, is working through the Dal-based Ocean Frontier Institute on a project that enables quick scanning of satellite images in the quest for more data to understand the endangered animals' ever-changing movements due to climate change and other factors.
Stephanie Rogers
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Researchers at the Faculty of Agriculture have discovered the plant essential oil carvacol can rapidly kill Streptococcus pyogenes, the bacteria that causes strep throat.
Michele Charlton
Monday, January 25, 2021
Molecular biologist John Archibald is Dal’s newest Arthur B. McDonald Chair of Research Excellence, receiving $50,000 a year for up to seven years to build upon his already substantial body of research that uses the tools of genomics to study how microbes adapt and diversify.