From Infectious Selflessness: How an Ant Colony Becomes a Social Immune System. Rebeca Rosengaus of Northeastern University was impressed with the variety of experiments and analyses in the new study, which she says “provides further support that social immunity is a real phenomenon, not only in ants, but also in termites and probably eusocial wasps […]

Overfishing has resulted in the serial depletion of fish stocks around the world and caused significant collateral damage to non-target species because of high levels of bycatch.

In 1967, the year Northeastern’s Marine Sci­ence Center was estab­lished, the world was a different place.

In 1967, the year Northeastern’s Marine Sci­ence Center was estab­lished, the world was a dif­ferent place.

An audio recording of Stephen Hawkins at the Sustaining Coastal Cities Conference.

An audio recording of Steven Gaines at the Sustaining Coastal Cities Conference.

An audio recording of Ove Hoegh-Guldberg at the Sustaining Coastal Cities Conference.

An audio recording of Larry Crowder at the Sustaining Coastal Cities Conference

An audio recording of a panel discussion at the Sustaining Coastal Cities Conference.

An audio recording of the morning panel discussion at the Sustaining Coastal Cities Conference

An audio recording of Sylvia Earle's lecture.

Local sev­enth and eighth graders in an after-​​school sci­ence club got an up-​​close look at real sci­en­tific research while vis­iting Northeastern’s Marine Sci­ence Center in Nahant, Mass.

A guest post by David Kimbro, as featured in the blog In the Grass, On the Reef

A guest post by David Kimbro, as featured in the blog In the Grass, On the Reef.