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"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum
It is described as being a harmonic pulse consisting of "cross-phased supermassive neutrinos". There is no detailed explanation of how it affects living organisms, but here is my theory:
It is a resonance pulse. Its frequency is tuned to the resonance frequencies of each species' central nervous systems, or an important part of it. (Each species will have different CNS', so differing wave frequencies will be needed, thus the harmonics I think) The wave imparts massive vibrational energy into the CNS until it is destroyed.
A simple way to visualize what this resonance entails is in a child's swing. If you push the swing in time with when the swing just begins its motion away from you, the energy that you put into the swing will add to the swing's preexisting energy and it will go higher. If you push as the swing is coming towards you, you will end up slowing it down - you will steal its energy away. Halo's pulse is like this in that it must cause vibrations in parts of your CNS, and the waves are in time to these vibrations so that they "push" them higher and higher. In the same sense that if you push the child's swing too high it will fly off the bar (Or the child will fly off the seat...) so too is the CNS' structure eventually broken down by these constantly increasing destructive vibrations. The only difference is that it is massive energies transferred almost instantly.
Or something.
/theory