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Why are people freaking out about the sound of a black hole?

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Science & Technology

How quantum physicists are looking for life on exoplanets

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Northeastern entrepreneurs make fashion statement by connecting unique designer brands with consumers

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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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Arts & Entertainment

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

Society & Culture

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

Northeastern biology major Dillon Nishigaya, conducts cancer research in a Mugar lab. Nishigaya was inspired to student science after overcoming scoliosis.
Science & Technology

These identical twins launched research careers – as freshmen

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Science & Technology

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

Adwoa Sefah, class of 2022 undergraduate commencement speaker, poses for a portrait.

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

Dacheng Lin, research associate professor of physics.
Science & Technology

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

H William Detrich Professor of Marine and Environmental Sciences poses for a portrait at the Marine Science Center in Nahant, MA.
Science & Technology

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

Science & Technology

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