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Invasive Species: Understanding the Threat Before It’s Too Late

Catching rides on cargo ships and fishing boats, many invasive species are now covering our shorelines and compromising the existence of our native marine life. In a study published in Ecology Letters, Northeastern University Prof. David Kimbro and his team examine what factors allow some invasive species to survive in their new environments and others to fail.
March 22, 2013

Invasive Species: Understanding the Threat Before It's Too Late

Catching rides on cargo ships and fishing boats, many invasive species are now covering our shorelines and compromising the existence of our native marine life. In a study published in Ecology Letters, Northeastern University Prof. David Kimbro and his team examine what factors allow some invasive species to survive in their new environments and others to fail.
March 22, 2013

The Art Of the Higgs Boson

Toyoko Orimoto, an assistant professor of physics, recently gave a TEDx talk titled, "The Art of the Higgs Boson.”
March 20, 2013

How To Make Interesting (Science) Videos

Steve Garfield, author, online TV host, video connoisseur, was the guest for #sciencechat on March 20, 2013. He talked about how to make videos even when you're not a pro.
March 20, 2013

Study: Antibiotics are unique assassins

In recent years, a body of pub­li­ca­tions in the micro­bi­ology field has chal­lenged all pre­vious knowl­edge of how antibi­otics kill bac­teria.
March 11, 2013

NTDs – Neglected Tropical Diseases

Professor Michael Pollastri, a chemistry professor in the College of Science at Northeastern University, talked about NTDs - neglected tropical diseases.
February 27, 2013

The brakes of inflammation

In the last few decades, sci­en­tists have come to attribute an immuno­log­ical expla­na­tion to many can­cers.
February 26, 2013

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