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Salt marshes like Belle Isle in Boston provide vital ecosystem services, but sea-level rise threatens their future without urgent restoration efforts.

Eliassi-Rad is one of several Northeastern researchers who have proposed a new area of study they are calling “Human AI Coevolution” to better understand and analyze these feedback loops. Other researchers on the project include Northeastern professors Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Albert-László Barabási and Alessandro Vespignani.

Northeastern researchers find a faster and more sensitive way to study proteins, which could lead to advances in disease treatment

Northeastern University professors explain how the axolotl — an adorable amphibian with a permanent smile and pink, feathery gills — has become so popular, and why it’s also critically endangered in the wild.

Ferris says that the study is “incredibly topical” as marijuana and Adderall are two readily available, commonly used drugs — especially among people in high-stress environments.

This fall, we celebrated the outstanding research opportunities offered to our undergraduate students, made possible through generous donors and initiatives like the new Dean’s Undergraduate Research Scholars program which aims to immerse students, as early as their first year, in the exciting discoveries being made in the College. Students (listed below) presented the important research […]

This past July 13-14, Aaron B. Daniels, associate teaching professor of psychology, took 22 undergraduate students to run and present papers at a Psychology & the Other Conference, held at Northeastern’s London campus. The students were part of Professor Daniels’s Psychological Humanities at Northeastern University (PH@NU) Workgroup and were generously supported by the College of […]

Northeastern researchers are targeting brain-eating amoeba that cause a rare, but deadly, infection

“Right now we use a lot of conventional nonbiodegradable plastics for applications they don’t need to be used in at all,” Joshi says. “If we replace that with our plastic, you could just flush it down the toilet and it would biodegrade.”

Sijia Dong, assistant professor in chemistry and chemical biology, has received an NIH MIRA grant, supporting revolutionary protein design strategies for drug synthesis.

Northeastern researchers discovered new insights about how early childhood development unfolds, adding to a burgeoning literature focused on how caregivers shape their children — and the plasticity of the infant brain.

Northeastern University professor Steven Vollmer says he and his team of researchers combined field work and tank experiments with machine learning models to narrow the list of most likely pathogens to a berry-shaped bacteria known as Cysteiniphilum litorale.