As Omicron levels are finally on the downfall and warmer weather approaches, Alessandro Vespignani predicts that we "may be able to breathe a little easier."

A virus that moves as quickly around the globe as the omicron variant could spell disaster just as people are traveling and gathering for holiday and New Year celebrations. But the devil’s in the details when it comes to COVID-19—and that could be a good thing.

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.

Alessandro Vespignani is knighted by the Italian government for his contributions to advancing cooperation between Italy and the United States during the pandemic.

Say you’re an aspiring physicist, probing the quantum world to gain insight into the fundamental nature of reality. There are two ways to go about your scientific odyssey, but both involve very expensive machinery. One way is to smash a bunch of atoms together, revealing their subatomic guts; another is to toss them under a […]

Introducing new College of Science faculty, Fabian Ruehle.

There are many mysteries still to unravel in the world of quantum mechanics, but scientists at Northeastern believe they’ve made a “holy grail” discovery that could help pave the way for the next generation of electronic devices. Their findings, published recently in Nature, center mostly on the discovery of a so-called topological axion insulator, a […]

Paul Whitford and a team of scientists develop an inhalable vaccine strategy in the hopes of offering a simple and efficient way of administering COVID-19 vaccines.

Alessandro Vespignani, Sternberg Family Distinguished Professor of Physics, presents his research as part of the Northeastern Office of Alumni Relations College of Science Connects series.

Research conducted by Arun Bansil, university distinguished professor of physics, and other institutions, seeks to "see" how atomic and subatomic particles inside lithium-ion batteries behave.

Listen to Hazel Sive, Dean of the College of Science, as she talks to Meni Wanunu, Associate Professor of Physics, on his expertise in experimental biological physics.

Max Bi was 14 years old when his parents moved from Beijing to New York to create more opportunities for their only child. “It was for me to get a better education,” says Bi, an assistant professor of physics at Northeastern. “The competition is fierce in China, and I wasn’t a top student in middle […]

Dr. Krioukov’s lab recently published two papers in the field of network science. These papers show that (1) the geometry of networks can be elucidated by understanding the network’s latent properties and (2) For networks living in latent space, finding their geometry is possible using a previously known standard called Ollivier Curvature.

This article highlights the research done by the Whitford lab that was recently published in the journal Nature. Using high-performance computer modeling, the research group identified a target location on the ribosome that elucidates a potential for antibiotic therapies.