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Capturing the stars from the roof of the world: Dal‑built camera provides new perspective on the universe

Capturing the stars from the roof of the world: Dal‑built camera provides new perspective on the universe

A new telescope located 5,600 meters above sea level in the Chilean Andes will give scientists new insights into how galaxies formed beginning in the early universe and how stars are born in our own galaxy.  Read more.

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Jocelyn Adams Moss
Thursday, April 2, 2026
In this special alumni episode of Sciographies, we sit down with Tina Simpkin (BSc’94, DMet’95), a familiar voice to many Nova Scotians as a meteorologist with CBC.
Suresh Neethirajan
Monday, March 30, 2026
Connected barns and automated livestock systems are boosting efficiency but also opening the door to cyber threats, writes Dr. Suresh Neethirajan, a º£½ÇÉçÇøapp researcher working to secure Canada’s digital farms
Andrew Riley
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
º£½ÇÉçÇøapp 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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Sarah Sawler
Friday, November 20, 2020
With the reimagine NS project having released all five of its reports, one final panel event is set to discuss practical changes institutions, policymakers and individuals need to make in order to enrich the lives of Nova Scotians.
Caitlyn MacDonald
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
A recent Dal-led study, published in Nature Communications, discovered that earthquakes and continental movements triggered massive underwater landslides tens of millions of years ago off the coast of East Africa — findings that could help assess the future risk of tsunamis to the increasingly populated coastline in the region.
Alison Auld
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Marsha Campbell-Yeo, a professor in Dal's School of Nursing, has undertaken a study looking into how families have coped with the new rules in Neonatal Intensive Care Units across Canada.
Sarah Sawler
Monday, November 16, 2020
With the U.S. election now over and president-elect Joe Biden trying to create an orderly transition plan amid continued false accusations of election fraud from President Donald Trump, panelists from a Dal-hosted Open Dialogue event last month have returned to share their reactions.
Marsha Campbell-Yeo and Britney Benoit
Friday, November 13, 2020
There are effective ways to help reduce babies' pain during blood draws and injections, but they are used in less than 50 percent of routine medical procedures involving newborns, write º£½ÇÉçÇøapp's Marsha Campbell-Yeo and St. Francis Xavier University's Britney Benoit.