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Since 2006, Northeastern University has dramatically expanded its research enterprise, with particular emphasis on three global imperatives: health, security and sustainability. Working intentionally across disciplines, Northeastern faculty members are focused on solving real problems in the world. NGN Research tells the stories of these important accomplishments.
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Fascism of the past still casts a shadow on Italy’s politics and anti-immigration rhetoric, Northeastern researcher says
May 17, 2024
The rise of traditionalist pro-life and pro-family politicians took some Western commentators by surprise, but Marianna Griffini, a London-based assistant professor in international relations and anthropology, says she saw it coming after interviewing members of populist right-wing parties in Italy. Griffini spoke at an event held last month on Northeastern University’s London campus to promote her book, “The Politics of Memory in the Italian Populist Radical Right.”
Can robots be used to extract ice on the moon? This NASA research fellow from Northeastern wants to find out
May 15, 2024
Henry Noyes plans to make the university’s snake-inspired robot fully autonomous. The recent graduate helped his team to victory in the 2022 NASA Big Idea Challenge.
Northeastern research on HIV infection could lead to better drugs to treat the virus
May 13, 2024
New research by a team of physicists led by Northeastern University professor Mark Williams recently confirmed a key mechanism in how HIV infects cells — via a natural process of mechanical pressure — that could lead to better treatments.
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May 9, 2024
Cows have human flu receptors, study shows, raising stakes on bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle
April 25, 2024
A new theory says dark matter actually shaped the universe
In new peer-reviewed research, a team of researchers from Northeastern University stated that dark matter may have played a much bigger role in the birth of our visible universe.
April 20, 2024
Nearly 500 people have been killed in school shootings since Columbine
It’s important to put the numbers into perspective, so people understand that rampage attacks like Columbine are not common, according to James Alan Fоx, a criminologist at Northeastern University who has been researching gun violence for decades.
Parrots can play tablet games for enrichment. Now researchers are studying how to improve them for birds to use
Researchers aiming to answer why parrots should use technology for cognitive enrichment set out to answer just how tablets could be improved for optimal use by the intelligent birds.
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‘AI Fairness in Action: A Human-Computer Perspective on AI Fairness in Organizations and Society’
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‘Accounting for Hydroclimatic Properties in Flood Frequency Analysis Procedures’
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‘Physical Activity-Related Individual Differences in Functional Human Connectome Are Linked to Fluid Intelligence in Older Adults’
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‘Spin–Orbit Exciton–Induced Phonon Chirality in a Quantum Magnet’