Posts by Thea Singer
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Rigorous science upends the mind-body myth
New research led by Northeastern’s Lisa Feldman Barrett reveals the system in the brain where basic feelings originate. The findings could help solve mysteries regarding…
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Researchers use Twitter to track the flu in real time
An international team led by Northeastern’s Alessandro Vespignani has developed a unique computational model that uses Twitter to project the spread of the seasonal flu…
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Healthy aging: Can we turn back time?
Northeastern researchers touched on that question this week in a series of talks that examined renewing tissue function, improving and restoring motor control, and the…
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Facebook can function as safety net for the bereaved, study finds
Neuroscientists have long noted that if certain brain cells are destroyed by, say, a stroke, new circuits may be laid in another location to compensate,…
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‘Unicorn’ shipworm could reveal clues about human medicine and bacterial infections
Northeastern professor Daniel Distel and his colleagues have discovered a dark slithering creature four feet long that dwells in the foul mud of a remote…
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What makes a winner?
More than 120 judges from industry and academia circulate among the 400-plus solution-oriented research projects on display at RISE:2017. Intently, they listen to the presenters,…
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Building stronger ties by balancing mindfulness and compassion
Mindfulness and compassion: The more you have of each, the better your relationships with others, right? Not necessarily, according to research being conducted by Dipak…
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Discovering drug treatments for alcohol addiction
Common treatments for alcohol addiction range from 12-step programs advocating abstinence to use of medications including disulfiram, sold as Antabuse, which produces an acute sensitivity…
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‘Keeping Parkinson’s patients moving’
In the U.S. alone, approximately 60,000 people are diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease every year. A student team led by Justin Schwartzseid, E’17, who has an…
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Award-winning film uses math to provide ‘poetical vision’ of Earth’s complexities
A film by Northeastern data visualizer Maura Martino, created in collaboration with a research team led by network scientist Albert-László Barabási, was named the Expert’s…
