COS News

Veronica Godoy-Carter, professor of Biology and Biochemistry, has sequenced the genome of a "living hill" or bacterial colony found in Patagonia.

Albert-László Barabási, physics professor, is advocating for a mass project combining AI, mass spectrometry and network medicine to map the chemical makeup of the foods we consume.

This week, I passed by a new construction, and maybe the smell of the concrete took me far back, to our friends, the Fishers. Marie and Terry Fisher lived way out in the dry highveld grassland near Johannesburg. Theirs was the only house for miles and they had a windmill. Terry was building their house, room by...

Steve Tedesco, COS alumni, is the CEO of Running Foxes Petroleum, a company that offers an alternative to finding locations for investors and companies to drill for oil.

Susanne Jaeggi, psychology professor, has new research that may help scientist understand how people's working memory can be improved.

Craig Ferris, psychology professor, and colleagues have found that rats dosed with psilocybin after mild head injuries, were able to regain normal brain function.

Jacqueline McCleary, assistant professor of physics, weighs in on the so-called city-killer asteroid that seemed to be likely to hit Earth in 2032. McCleary explains that the increased odds are a normal part of the data process and not to worry!

This week, for required viewing, I might choose the Australian series Apple Cider Vinegar (Netflix), that has clear lessons for those dangerously acting on our health and biomedical research landscapes. The series is factually based and follows two young women on their quest for ‘natural’ cancer therapies. One of the main characters has cancer but is terrified...

A Delta Airlines plane crashed-landed on Monday in Toronto. Northeastern distinguished physics professor Arun Bansil weighs in on how it happened.

Bonnie Liu, fourth year cell and molecular biology major, is part of an organization that visits different places around Boston to play piano for geriatric patients.

The Importance of Research, our topic today, is always timely and always necessary. As a member of the College of Science, you may be asked something like: What exactly is research for and is it worth my tax dollars? And why don’t we have a cure for a specific disease? You can answer with something...

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.