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Living tissues may form like avalanches, Northeastern researchers say — a discovery that could aid new treatments

Anh Nguyen, Ph. D student, and Max Bi, associate professor of physics, have observed that when subjected to sufficient stress, tissues can “suddenly and dramatically rearrange themselves,” similar to how avalanches are formed in the wild.
April 24, 2025

Could biology hold the key to the future of computing? This Northeastern physicist is on a mission to find out

Paul Stevenson, assistant physics professor, is studying "spin" to see how it is naturally occurring, a process that up until recently was thought to only be something that scientist could engineer.
March 18, 2025

How monitoring wastewater from international flights can serve as an early warning system for the next pandemic

Alessandro Vespignani, director of Northeastern’s Network Science Institute, Guillaume St-Onge, a physicist at Northeastern, and colleagues have researched how monitoring wastewater from international flights can help scientists anticipate the next pandemic.
February 12, 2025