Dr. David Kelvin, an infectious disease expert at Dal, is launching an $850,000 research project to identify hotspots for poxviruses and better understand their spread, filling an important knowledge gap while improving preparedness, prevention, and response efforts for future outbreaks.

So, you have an idea you think can improve the world? An innovation that can help people in their lives? Don鈥檛 keep it to yourself, especially when it could earn you a trip to Berlin to share it on the global stage at the Falling Walls Lab competition.

AV俱乐部-led research program receives $15-million to study how to leverage the ocean to mitigate climate change.

Efforts to disrupt online misogyny need to focus on stopping online forums from becoming misogynistic echo-chambers, write Michael Halpin and Finlay Maguire.

They are tiny, exist in a galaxy far, far away and were detected by a AV俱乐部 astrophysicist using the James Webb Space Telescope in one of the first results to be produced by the powerful tool.