In the middle of the human brain there is a tiny struc­ture shaped like an elon­gated donut that plays a cru­cial role in man­aging how the body func­tions.

This fall, Northeastern University welcomes a new student organization – a chapter of Nu Rho Psi, the National Honor Society in Neuroscience.

Retired Marine Col. Mark Mykleby said at a campus lecture this week that the nation's biggest problem is global unsustainability and it will take behavioral change, not national strategy, to fix it.

Most species are content with just one form of reproduction, but not for the coral p. damicornis. These guys make babies sexually and asexually. Doctoral candidate David Combosch wants to know why.

There are some ques­tions that you don’t need to be a sci­en­tist to ask. You need to be a little kid.

Col. Mark "Puck" Mykleby titled his lecture, "Sustainability: A 21st Century American Grand Strategy."

Col. Mark "Puck" Mykleby titled his lecture, "Sustainability: A 21st Century American Grand Strategy."

There are some ques­tions that you don’t need to be a sci­en­tist to ask. You need to be a little kid,” said Baruch Barzel, a post-​​doctoral research asso­ciate at Northeastern’s Center for Com­plex Net­work Research.

In 2012, Jonathan Tilly's team pub­lished research in which it iden­ti­fied that certain cells in adult human ovaries pro­duce viable new eggs.

The Marine Science Center has welcomed several new faculty members whose focus is urban coastal sustainability.

Urban coastal sus­tain­ability becomes an ever more pressing con­cern as more than half of the world’s pop­u­la­tion flocks to its shores—the places where cities thrive.

Dr. Mark Nedelman of Ekam Imaging talks at the Accelerating Translational Research for Drug Discovery conference at Northeastern University.

Dr. Aloisia Schmid of California Institute of Technology talks at the Accelerating Translational Research for Drug Discovery conference at Northeastern University.

Dr. Peter Lansbury, Jr. of Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School talks at the Accelerating Translational Research for Drug Discovery conference at Northeastern University.