Oh, Spotify Wrapped. If we didn’t love you so much, we might be sorta creeped out. The popular music streaming platform digs around in our playlists, exposing the long hours we spent listening to true crime podcasts while unearthing sappy pop tunes played on repeat during a tough breakup. While Congress and private users continue […]

Catalyst showcases how the passion of our faculty, paired with the generosity of our community, is having a profoundly positive impact on our College, particularly for our students. Thank you for being a part of the College of Science community.

Researchers at Northeastern and neighboring colleges say they’ve made a landmark discovery that takes a deeper look at the metabolic and biochemical origins of a debilitating genetic disease known to cause a range of symptoms and health problems. A new study, published Wednesday, focused on a severe neurodevelopmental disorder referred to as 16p11.2 Deletion Syndrome, […]

Grayson Kimball, a mental performance coach and psychology lecturer at Northeastern University comments on athlete's risk perception.

Gregory Coppoola shares his NU experience at COS.

Churchill Scholarship nominee, Cameron Young, shares his NU experience at the College of Science and College of Engineering.

Student shares her NU experience at the College of Science as well as how to get involved in NUSAAC.

As the world scrambles to make sense of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus, Northeastern is ready to spot it if it enters our community. Northeastern’s COVID-19 testing laboratory can already detect the omicron variant through existing protocols. And that could save the university community precious time in identifying and responding to any threat […]

Scientists keep close watch of the omicron variant as it continues to spread across South Africa.

A new Covid-19 variant, Omicron has been detected in South Africa.

If humans are to live on Mars or the moon one day, we’ll need to be able to construct buildings to live, sleep, eat, and work in space. The way to do that, space agencies have said, is to 3D-print habitats or their components. But hauling enough of the Earth-derived materials used for most 3D […]

Students on Northeastern's Boston campus share their excitement to head home for the holidays.

Ella Strzegowski landed a co-op at Moderna, where she uses chromatography to examine the molecules in the messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine solution. 

Jeffrey Agar and his colleagues are working on helping humanity develop treatments for hundreds of currently untreatable diseases