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Can listening to the Beatles improve your memory? New research says music just might stir the brain
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Can listening to the Beatles improve your memory? New research says music just might stir the brain

Why is Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ so popular? It starts with Sigmund Freud.
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Why is Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ so popular? It starts with Sigmund Freud.

The science of nostalgia: Why audiences can’t get enough of Star Wars, Top Gun and Stranger Things

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The science of nostalgia: Why audiences can’t get enough of Star Wars, Top Gun and Stranger Things

These identical twins launched research careers – as freshmen
Northeastern biology major Dillon Nishigaya, conducts cancer research in a Mugar lab. Nishigaya was inspired to student science after overcoming scoliosis.

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These identical twins launched research careers – as freshmen

Researchers discover new ‘unexpected’ phenomenon in quantum physics of materials
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Researchers discover new ‘unexpected’ phenomenon in quantum physics of materials

Inspired by her mother, Adwoa Sefah approaches her Commencement speech with empathy
Adwoa Sefah, class of 2022 undergraduate commencement speaker, poses for a portrait.

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Inspired by her mother, Adwoa Sefah approaches her Commencement speech with empathy

His out-of-this-world discovery: Signals from billions of light years away
Dacheng Lin, research associate professor of physics.

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His out-of-this-world discovery: Signals from billions of light years away

The legacy of H. William Detrich is rising with the Antarctic tide
H William Detrich Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences poses for a portrait at the Marine Science Center in Nahant, MA.

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The legacy of H. William Detrich is rising with the Antarctic tide

What happens to decades of deep-sea specimens when a scientist retires? They might not end up in the trash–anymore.

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What happens to decades of deep-sea specimens when a scientist retires? They might not end up in the trash–anymore.

How squid camouflage could help prevent skin cancer in humans
Dan Wilson, a research scientist at Northeastern’s Kostas Research Institute, constructs a wearable UV light sensitive detector.

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How squid camouflage could help prevent skin cancer in humans

For Max Bi, physics + biology = a Sloan Research Fellowship
Northeastern assistant physics professor Max Bi poses for a portrait in his office on Huntington Ave. Bi recently earned the Sloan research fellowship.

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For Max Bi, physics + biology = a Sloan Research Fellowship

For COVID-19, ‘endemic’ does not mean ‘the end’

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For COVID-19, ‘endemic’ does not mean ‘the end’