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Local bioterrorism as a potential global threat

According to a new com­puter mod­eling research study from North­eastern Uni­ver­sity net­work sci­en­tist Alessandro Vespig­nani, when it comes to bioter­rorist attacks, “dis­eases have no bor­ders.”
July 17, 2013

A Pivotal Moment for Particle Physics

A search that began almost 50 years ago is finally coming to a close. “But this is just the begin­ning,” said North­eastern physics pro­fessor Emanuela Bar­beris.
July 16, 2013

What's Next for Particle Physicists, Post-Higgs?

In March of last year, sci­en­tists working with the Large Hadron Col­lider at the Euro­pean Orga­ni­za­tion for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzer­land iden­ti­fied the Higgs boson, the last elu­sive par­ticle in the Stan­dard Model of physics.
July 16, 2013

A Wiring Diagram for Disease

The human genome is a vast parts list for the inner works of our biology. It codes for thou­sands of pro­teins that make us who we are and keep our bodies up and run­ning.
July 15, 2013

How to Quantify Success

A growing number of researchers have begun devel­oping cre­ative ways to mea­sure suc­cess from a quan­ti­ta­tive point of view, from ana­lyzing cita­tion pat­terns to number-​​crunching pres­i­den­tial elections.
July 11, 2013

Underwater Science

Incoming Marine Biology professor Mark Patterson talks about studying science underwater.
July 10, 2013

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