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Rich McKay

A monarch butterfly with wings fully spread rests among glossy green magnolia leaves, its orange and black pattern in sharp focus against the foliage.
Science & Technology

The monarch butterfly’s ‘great procession’ is happening overhead

A brown bear standing in a rushing river, scanning the water for fish.
Society & Culture

Fat Bear Week features rotund Alaskan ursinae for conservation

Raindrops falling into a puddle on the ground.
World & National News

“Super” El Niño is expected to be the strongest on record

Joshua Joseph speaks into a microphone to an audience, gesturing as he talks, with an attendee recording on a phone in the foreground.
University News

Robotics helped kick-start this grad’s career at Tesla

Sherman adjusts an EEG electrode on a cap fitted to a study participant's head, shot from a low angle with a tangle of colored wires visible against the cap.
Health

This professor is studying how brainwaves can cut crippling joint pain

Twin towers of the World Trade Center seen from a distance across the Manhattan skyline, with smoke drifting eastward from them against a clear sky.
University News

Northeastern University’s new students don’t have 9/11 memories

A view through the witness window into the execution chamber, showing a gurney with leather restraint straps and an adjacent room with folding chairs.
Law

Death Penalty laws put the US in a small club of nations who execute

Duane Davis standing in profile in a courtroom, other people visible out of focus in the foreground.
Law

Verdict in rap star’s killing decided on book confession

A close-up of a box turtle held in cupped hands, its head extended and legs outstretched, set against grass.
University News

This student toiled in aviaries, barns and pens for his co-op

Martin Luther King Jr. raises his right hand while speaking from a podium crowded with microphones, addressing a dense crowd that stretches back toward the Washington Monument.
University News

Northeastern professor weighs in on why marching still matters

Workers wearing blue gloves sit at tables examining ballot envelopes and papers.
Law

The fight over mail-in ballots. This law professor explains

A woman with a tattoo on her forearm clips blue-and-white dyed fabric panels to an overhead rack in a glass-walled gallery space.
University News

Northeastern Artists-in-Residence open new show at Gallery 360