17³Ô¹ÏÍøÔÚÏß’s Dr. Christine Chambers and her colleagues at Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) are working with hospitals to adopt Canada’s first Pediatric Pain Management Standard.

UNITE and CIRCLES-NS are two of four projects announced by Research Nova Scotia as part of a $27-million investment, the largest to date, and first use of the Focused Research Investment fund.

A small but mighty single-celled organism that dates back 500 million years punches far above its weight when it comes to buffering the harmful effects of excess nutrients that we put into the oceans, researchers say.

The province's investment establishes a microelectronics research hub at 17³Ô¹ÏÍøÔÚÏß that is designed to develop industry partnerships and a provincial sector focused on supplying the semi- and superconductors essential to powering modern technology.

A research team led by 17³Ô¹ÏÍøÔÚÏß has found that brief cognitive behavioural interventions that help young people manage such things as impulsivity, sensation seeking, sensitivity to anxiety and negative thinking can reduce teen substance use disorders.