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    A new report from a group of Northeastern researchers explores across disciplines how biotech can ensure safe, sustainable life beyond Earth.

    The key to international space cooperation is developments in biotechnology, Northeastern researchers say

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    The NeuroPRISM lab, led by assistant psychology professor Stephanie Noble, makes tools that pave the way for reliable and reproducible neuroimaging of the brain.

    Precise maps of the brain’s deepest corners are made possible through tools developed by these Northeastern researchers

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  • Q&A with Greg Coppola, MS Environmental Science and Policy

    Q&A with Greg Coppola, MS Environmental Science and Policy

    Gregory Coppoola shares his NU experience at COS.
  • Experience Magazine: He spent months underwater. Now he wants to save the ocean.

    Experience Magazine: He spent months underwater. Now he wants to save the ocean.

    Mark Patterson, marine scientist, aquanaut, and inventor of underwater robots, walked into San Diego Comic-Con dressed as a giant coral polyp. He was decked out entirely in orange, with ten fake tentacles dangling from his neck. Green and purple splotches on his shirt front represented microplastics pollution, lodged in his polyp-gut. This was 2015, and […]
  • College of Science Connects: The Plastics Problem

    College of Science Connects: The Plastics Problem

        Hear from Professor Aron Stubbins and students to discuss the interactions between humans and the environment. Explore the global cycle of plastics, the processes that breakdown plastics in the environment, and the ecological and human health implications of plastics and their by-products. Discover new innovations that may be instrumental in finding solutions to […]
  • Q & A with Troy Langknecht, MS in Environmental Science and Policy

    Q & A with Troy Langknecht, MS in Environmental Science and Policy

    Q & A with Troy Langknecht, Environmental Science and Policy student.
  • These co-ops are taking part in creating the next model organism, one cephalopod at a time.

    These co-ops are taking part in creating the next model organism, one cephalopod at a time.

    It’s not every day you get the chance to work with cephalopods. That, however, is not the case for Northeastern students Sarah Beecy and Sonia van Stekelenborg. Beecy, a third-year marine biology student, and van Stekelenborg, a third-year environmental science student, are currently on their first co-op as marine cephalopod aquarists at Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The MBL is a […]
  • On co-op at The Food Project, she hopes to make a difference in the environmental justice field.

    On co-op at The Food Project, she hopes to make a difference in the environmental justice field.

    Sophia Samaha shares her experience as a College of Science student on co-op.
  • Is wildfire soot leaving a mark on the world’s oceans?

    Is wildfire soot leaving a mark on the world’s oceans?

    When clouds of smoke and ash billow out over the ocean, stretching away from the wildfires that are their source, they might not just affect the air quality. Rather, the wildfire soot could leave a chemical mark on the waters below. That’s the idea behind new research by Aron Stubbins, associate professor of marine and […]
  • To safeguard key coastal ecosystems, this scientist starts by talking to the local anglers

    To safeguard key coastal ecosystems, this scientist starts by talking to the local anglers

    Marine and Environmental Sciences Professor, Steven Scyphers, works with anglers to take comprehensive look yet at greater amberjack populations.
  • How data from Hurricane Ida can help bolster levees, power infrastructure.

    How data from Hurricane Ida can help bolster levees, power infrastructure.

    Qin Jim Chen, professor of civil and environmental engineering, collects data from Hurricane Ida to save lives and help prevent flooding.
  • He cultivates the campus’s  ‘urban forest’ with an eye on the future.

    He cultivates the campus’s ‘urban forest’ with an eye on the future.

    It is a sticky, tropical day in August, making the Boston campus feel like an open-air blast furnace. Good thing Northeastern has nearly 1,500 trees to absorb some of the heat, or it could feel a lot worse, says Stephen Schneider, the university’s new chief arborist. “One of the more beneficial aspects of this urban […]
  • If we don’t halt climate change, the world’s oceans may never be the same.

    If we don’t halt climate change, the world’s oceans may never be the same.

    The vast majority of the world’s oceans may never be the same if humanity doesn’t curb our carbon emissions. As much as 95% of the climates in the surface ocean that exist today could completely disappear within 80 years, according to new research led by Katie Lotterhos, associate professor of marine and environmental sciences at […]
  • How the natural pigments in marine life inspired a beauty products startup

    How the natural pigments in marine life inspired a beauty products startup

    Camille Martin, PhD and assistant professor of Chemistry, Leila Deravi, developed Seaspire Skincare, a beauty product line drawn from marine ecosystems.