In the fourth profile in our series highlighting the five Reimagine NS reports, we hear from the authors behind "Cultivate and Consume" on their work examining food insecurity in Nova Scotia and ways we can ensure our food systems are foolproof against future disruptions.

From growing up in Jamaica to attending school in Ontario, Sophia Stone has always surrounded herself with strong female role models. Now, she's a role model herself, as a professor and molecular biologist at É«ÃÃÃÃÖ±²¥, exploring how plants respond to their environments and cope with changes. Learn more in a preview of this week's episode of Sciographies.

Nutrients and energy contained within dead animals are repurposed and repackaged into living, breathing insects — spooky insights from Dal postdoc Paul Manning.

The Healthy Populations Journal (HPJ), launched this October, is a multi-faculty, open access, peer review journal focused on population health and health equity globally.

A É«ÃÃÃÃÖ±²¥/IWK Health Centre collaboration on rare genetic disorders is receiving $4.8 million in funding through Genome Canada as part of a major national investment in genomics research.