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“The basic premise is that AI can help us do better physics, and something that is less expected is that physics can also help us understand AI better,” said Northeastern professor James Halverson.
AI and physics have more in common than you might think.
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Mark Williams, Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics, will assume the role of Dean of the College of Science, effective July 1, 2026.
Mark C. Williams named Dean of the College of Science
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Q&A with Alicia Bustamante, MS Environmental Science and Policy
Alicia Bustamante shares her experience as a graduate student pursuing a master's degree in Environmental Science and Policy.
Rock and dust from asteroid Bennu offers unprecedented opportunity to study origins of the solar system, cosmologist says
The recovery of 8.8 ounces of rock and dust from the asteroid Bennu on Sunday is a scientific game changer, says Northeastern physics professor and cosmologist Jacqueline McCleary.
Miss looking up and seeing stars? Light pollution is becoming more and more of a problem, expert says
Look up in the night sky and what do you see? Probably a whole lot of light — and not from celestial bodies.
As president-elect of neuroscience society, Northeastern professor advocates for access to the scholarly community
Ajay Satpute, assistant professor of psychology, remembers the first question he ever asked at an academic conference. “It was about the role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and theory of mind, basically mentalizing about other people,” he says.
These goggles scan your brain to detect neurological and vision function loss
It combines a smartphone in a virtual reality headset with a brain sensor and plays podcasts.
Researcher uses gene regulation to improve drug delivery and treatment of rare genetic diseases
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is one of the most severe forms of muscular dystrophy. It’s also one of the most rare, as the genetic disease affects one in 3,500 to 5,000 newborn boys. For Ke Zhang, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University, that’s still one too many.
How does social media affect adolescent mental health? This researcher wants to find out
Alexandra Rodman wants to understand why “75% of all mental health diagnoses occur during the adolescent years.” What makes us, as humans, so vulnerable to social stressors in the years following puberty?
Why ‘UFOs’ should be tracked in the water as well as the skies
A much anticipated NASA report on UFOs calls for better tracking and scientific understanding of unexplained phenomena that captivate the public and have raised concerns about military security.
Genomics Partnership Gains Traction at CSI-GMGI Summit
Faculty, staff scientists, and students from Northeastern’s Coastal Sustainability Institute recently gathered on the Gloucester waterfront to network and share their science with the team at the Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute as part of an ongoing collaboration between the two institutions.
‘I was just sitting under a doorway tearing up.’ Northeastern students completing co-ops in Morocco recount earthquake experiences
Chloe Cordeiro was sitting in her apartment in Gueliz, a neighborhood in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, chatting with two of her friends on FaceTime when she began to feel the ground beneath her shake.
As Hurricane Lee approaches, ocean sensors deployed by Northeastern researchers will study wave and storm surge
A hurricane is coming. Northeastern researchers with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are preparing for the storm.
Psychology professor building ‘data science tool’ to increase the reliability of human brain research
When Stephanie Noble, a new assistant professor of psychology in the Center for Cognitive and Brain Health, says that psychology and neuroscience are facing a “reproducibility crisis,” what she means is that the scientific method itself is at risk.