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Co-op

Co-op brings student up close and personal with a lioness
Ryan Sewell completed a co-op at Lilongwe Wildlife Trust, which works to protect Malawi’s wildlife from threats such as deforestation, poaching and the pet trade.
Research

Will the Winter Olympics run out of snow?
Because of climate change, organizers will have to be careful about future venues and host events at locations of various altitudes, professor Samuel Muñoz say.
Research

Soccer passing is harder, shorter and sharper across pro leagues, new research finds
Assistant teaching professors Brennan Klein's new research group, NetSi Sport, released research analyzing how professional soccer gameplay has evolved over the last five years.
News

This class at Northeastern guides students through the mystery of the circadian rhythm
Associate teaching professor Matthias Schlichting invites upper-level students to investigate a biological mystery: How does the circadian rhythm function?
Research

Ashwagandha is having a moment. These researchers opened the door to more life-altering benefits
Ashwagandha, a popular supplement, is known for its effect on stress and sleep. Professor Jing-Ke Weng recreated its compounds in yeast, making a potential factory for its many benefits.
Research

How living and working under the sea fills aquanauts with wonder and awe. The phenomenon is called the “underview effect.”
Professor Brian Helmuth studies how living underwater can create a mind-blowing effect similar to what astronauts experience in space.
Research

These researchers flew a particle detector above Antarctica, hoping to find evidence of mysterious matter
Assistant Professor Tsuguo Aramaki has spent 20 years developing a weather balloon-borne particle detector to record indirect traces of dark matter. It recently launched in Antarctica.
Research

A ‘stunning’ new map of dark matter reveals insights into this mystery of the universe
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers including Professor Jacqueline McCleary, created the highest-resolution map yet of dark matter, the virtually invisible material that makes up about 80% of the universe’s matter.
Research

What is dark energy? Scientists shine new light on outer space’s biggest, invisible question
The final results from the six-year Dark Energy Survey show there are still more questions than answers but will impact astrophysics for decades, Northeastern’s Jonathan Blazek said.

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