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Billions of tons of plastic are choking the ocean. She’s here to help clean it up.

Northeastern graduate Amanda Dwyer did her doctoral research on how corals change their behavior to survive changing conditions in the oceans. Her next task is help reduce the impact of billions of tons of plastic in the world’s oceans.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa January 23, 2020

We know exercise is good for your skin. This protein mimics those effects in mice.

Skin cells lose their ability to heal themselves with age. Northeastern biologist Justin Crane is testing how a new treatment to heal wounds in older mice can help researchers understand the cellular mechanisms of aging and healing in the skin cells in elderly people.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa January 17, 2020

He’s on a quest to find the patterns that built everything around us

Gregory Fiete, a professor of physics at Northeastern, is exploring the electrons of materials that could catalyze a new technological era based on quantum systems.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa January 13, 2020

Can gun violence be traced back to its root causes?

Daniel Kim, an associate professor of health sciences at Northeastern, provides new insights into the social and economic factors that could be driving the current gun violence epidemic in the U.S.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa January 6, 2020

He’s training computers to find new molecules with the machine learning algorithms used by Facebook and Google

Using the same techniques that help social media algorithms learn about you, Northeastern assistant professor Steven Lopez is training machine learning algorithms to find millions of new molecules and help make materials for cancer therapy, renewable energy, and other important technologies.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa January 6, 2020

Superconductor or not? They're exploring the identity crisis of this weird quantum material.

Northeastern researchers have used a powerful computer model to probe a mysterious class of copper-based materials that can be turned into superconductors. Their findings offer tantalizing clues for a decades-old mystery, and a step forward for quantum computing.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa January 2, 2020

What do the brains of children tell us about their mental health as teens?

Psychiatrists don’t fully understand the neurological basis of mental illness, says Northeastern psychology professor Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli. Her team is presenting a new way to use brain imaging to anticipate the problems of teen anxiety and depression during childhood

by Roberto Molar Candanosa January 2, 2020

To fight villains on the internet, turn students into hackers

Northeastern students dominated a cybersecurity competition when they turned to the dark side and became the same bad guys on the internet they are preparing to fight.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa December 11, 2019

The deep ocean is not on fire. So what’s all that soot doing in there?

Until recently, scientists thought rivers moved black carbon from soil to the ocean. But new research by a team that included Aron Stubbins, an associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern, overturns this long-established idea.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa November 27, 2019

A new antibiotic has been hiding in the gut of a tiny worm. It may be our best weapon against drug-resistant bacteria.

Kim Lewis, University Distinguished Professor of biology, says we are in the midst of a global antibiotic resistance crisis. A new class of antibiotics discovered in his lab could be our best hope against some of the nastiest superbugs out there.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa November 20, 2019

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