Dal PhD candidate Joseph Bedard won the prestigious Falling Walls global competition in Berlin, Germany last week for his pitch on using air to create plastics. Read our Q&A with this researcher on the rise.

Wild Atlantic salmon and fish friends cool off in engineered thermal refuges during lengthy trek to spawning grounds in rivers that are becoming warmer and less hospitable to cold-loving species.

A HÂþ»­ lab built a mock MRI machine to prepare kids to participate in their reading comprehension study. Now, they’re offering the equipment up for use by other researchers who need to build kids’ capacity for ‘lying-still-time.’

Leveraging unique genome mapping research from HÂþ»­â€™s Faculty of Agriculture, startup Foodimprover is set to transform the global fruit sector’s ability to rapidly improve the taste, shelf life and resilience of our favourite fruits and berries.

Contenders from more than 60 countries will come together in Germany this week to pitch their ideas for a better world at the annual Falling Walls Science Summit, including two HÂþ»­ PhD students and the ocean education program Ocean School offered by Dal’s Ocean Frontier Institute.