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The Secret to Making Stuff Better? Shoot it With a Laser.
Northeastern physicist Gregory Fiete, left, and his doctoral student Michael Vogl have taken the first step in developing the next generation of electronics.
June 05, 2019
Giant Eels and Rare Penguins: Co-ops get a Crash Course in Marine Science
Co-ops at the New England Aquarium get to interact with fascinating ocean animals from around the world. But they have to put in a lot of hard work first.
May 29, 2019
What do you get a World-Renowned Physicist for his Birthday?
Pran Nath, who was hired at Northeastern in 1966, has spent his career trying to uncover the laws of physics that govern our universe.
May 16, 2019
Making the Leap from Video Games to a Psychology Lab
Ruiming Wang designed a fictional island where exercise and the outdoors convene in order to study how people perform on tasks that they encounter while inside the world.
May 14, 2019
Here’s How a Failed Experiment Led to a New Discovery
H. William Detrich, Northeastern professor of marine and environmental sciences, recently demonstrated that sperm and eggs from icefish in two different genera can combine to create viable offspring.
May 08, 2019
Here’s How a Failed Experiment Led to a New Discovery
H. William Detrich, Northeastern professor of marine and environmental sciences, recently demonstrated that sperm and eggs from icefish in two different genera can combine to create viable offspring.
May 08, 2019
Adorno Earns GEM Fellowship for Biomedical Engineering PhD
Jonathan Adorno COS’19 came to Northeastern as a Torch Scholar, thinking he wanted to be a doctor. Now that he is preparing to graduate, he still wants to spend his career doing work that helps people with diseases such as cancer—but in the research laboratory.
May 02, 2019
Two COS Students Earn 2019 Goldwater Scholarship for STEM Research
Two COS students have received the 2019 Goldwater Scholarship. With this award, they will continue STEM research in microbiology.
April 30, 2019
Northeastern Students Awarded Two Truman, Nine Fulbright Scholarships
A total of 11 Northeastern students have received Truman and Fulbright Scholarships in 2019. They’re serving underrepresented populations, searching for answers to some of the most vexing diseases, and fighting for gender equality.
April 17, 2019
He Found an Electric Blue, Iridescent Fish-and Became a Knight
Ben Moran travelled to Belize for a marine research project, but the project quickly evolved into a marine conservation effort.
March 12, 2019
The Secret of a Squid’s Ability to Change Colors may lie in an Unexpected Sparkle on its Skin
Leila Deravi has been working to investigate squid camouflage on a molecular level with a large, interdisciplinary team of researchers. Their work on the longfin squid, reveals an entirely new aspect of the squid’s color-changing abilities, bringing researchers one step closer to being able to replicate it.
March 05, 2019
The Secret of a Squid’s Ability to Change Colors may lie in an Unexpected Sparkle on its Skin
Leila Deravi has been working to investigate squid camouflage on a molecular level with a large, interdisciplinary team of researchers. Their work on the longfin squid, reveals an entirely new aspect of the squid’s color-changing abilities, bringing researchers one step closer to being able to replicate it.
March 05, 2019
Icefish Have Antifreeze in Their Blood, Anemia, and Osteoporosis. And They Feel Just Fine.
Northeastern professor H. William Detrich, a leader of an international collaboration that has recently sequenced the genome of the blackfin icefish.
March 01, 2019
This Might be Why Some Tumors Grow Back Aggressively After Cancer Treatments
Northeastern researchers may have discovered why cancer cells can regenerate after treatment.
February 25, 2019