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David Medina, a doctoral student at Northeastern, is using bacteria to produce nanoparticles that are particularly effective at killing whatever type of cell was used to create them, including strains of bacteria that are resistant to traditional antibiotics. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Science & Technology

Northeastern University researchers use nanoparticles made by bacteria to fight antibiotic-resistant infections like MRSA

by Laura Castañón
As mathematics professor Valerio Toledano Laredo will tell you, symmetry is more complicated than you might think. But the theory that underlies it might make the world a little simpler to understand. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
Science & Technology

Northeastern University mathematics professor Valerio Toledano Laredo studies representation theory and symmetry to understand physical universe

by Aria Bracci
Arun Bansil, a theoretical physicist at Northeastern, has discovered new properties in the chemical element bismuth that could prevent supercomputers from frying and enable the production of low power electronics. Photo by iStock
Science & Technology

This exotic crystal is fueling the quantum revolution

by Roberto Molar Candanosa
David Luzzi, senior vice provost for research and vice president of Northeastern’s Innovation Campus, and Killian O’Driscoll, who directs projects at the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research, sign a partnership agreement on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2019. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

Northeastern University to partner with National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training in Ireland to produce better and safer advanced drug and therapy treatment

by Roberto Molar Candanosa
A model of a molecule.
Science & Technology

Northeastern researchers team up with Kebotix to improve light-based cancer treatments

by Laura Castañón
This satellite image, taken on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019 and provided by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows Hurricane Dorian moving off the east coast of Florida in the Atlantic Ocean. NOAA via AP

Natural shoreline barriers on US coasts play a key role in protecting coastal communities from storms like Hurricane Dorian

by Roberto Molar Candanosa
Business

Learn how to cook like Gordon Ramsay, from the comfort of your own phone

by Khalida Sarwari
Neri dos Santos Silva watches an encroaching fire threat after digging trenches to keep the flames from spreading to the farm he works on, in the Nova Santa Helena municipality, in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, on Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. Under increasing international pressure to contain fires sweeping parts of the Amazon, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro recently authorized use of the military to battle the massive blazes. AP Photo/Leo Correa

The Amazon rainforest has been burning for weeks. Here’s why that matters.

by Roberto Molar Candanosa
Science & Technology

How theoretical biophysicist Herbert Levine uses computation and medical engineering to better understand cancer metastasis and immunotherapy

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Society & Culture

Here’s the secret to unlocking our compassion in the face of mass suffering

by Molly Callahan
Science & Technology

Northeastern researchers are using machine learning algorithms to predict the function of enzymes from their amino acids

by Laura Castañón
In this photo taken Wednesday, May 30, 2018, a healthcare worker from the World Health Organization prepares vaccines to give to front line aid workers, in Mbandaka, Congo. For the first time since the Ebola virus was identified more than 40 years ago, a vaccine has been dispatched to front line health workers in an attempt to combat the epidemic from the onset. AP Photo/Sam Mednick
Health

Northeastern University researchers are working with the World Health Organization to stop the spread of Ebola

by Laura Castañón