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Is that a turnip or a bomb?

Northeastern researchers have developed a new programming language that can decipher images relayed by drones, untangling, for instance, if an image is of a terrorist planting a bomb or simply a farmer planting root vegetables for his livelihood.

by Thea Singer April 20, 2016

Gratitude: ‘A vaccine against impulsiveness’

New research from Northeastern professor David DeSteno shows how cultivating gratitude for everyday occurrences leads to greater patience and more self-control.

by Thea Singer April 14, 2016

Why hoverboards explode

Northeastern research professor K.M. Abraham goes inside the self-balancing scooters to reveal the science behind their combustion.

by Thea Singer February 24, 2016

Facebook’s new degrees of separation: Does it matter?

Last week the popular social media platform reported that each of us is connected to everyone else not by six but just three and a half other people. Northeastern network theorist Albert-László Barabási offers a more comprehensive view: the number itself is a "toss up," depending on the density of the network.

by Thea Singer February 8, 2016

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, was a big focus early in Sunday night's debate between the Democratic candidates for president. <I>Photo by Ben Gordon/Flickr-Creative Commons</i>

What’s behind Flint’s water crisis?

Philip Larese-Casanova, an assistant professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering who studies the chemical processes of water pollutants, examines the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

by Greg St. Martin January 21, 2016

January 14, 2014 - Hanchen Huang is the Chair of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department. Huang devised a theory describing nanorod crystal growth

Researchers’ metallic glue may stick it to soldering and welding

Northeastern’s Hanchen Huang and colleagues, experts in nanotechnology, have developed a glue that binds metal to metal to glass to you-name-it, sets at room temperature, and requires little pressure to seal.

by Thea Singer January 8, 2016

Nano medication and medical technology and nanotechnology medicine concept as a group of microscopic nano robots or nanobots programed to kill human disease emerging from an open pill capsule as a futuristic health care icon.

Northeastern faculty spark a sea change in the nanomedicine field

Professors Srinivas Sridhar and Thomas Webster launched the Nanomedicine Academy of Minority Serving Institutions to bring a diverse workforce into this emerging field and cutting-edge medical advances into the world.

by Thea Singer January 4, 2016

Northeastern research the buzz of 2015

Groundbreaking scientific research published earlier this year by Northeastern researchers and their colleagues topped the list of the 100 scientific articles receiving the most media buzz and online attention in 2015, according to the London-based company Altmetric.

by News@Northeastern December 16, 2015

Northeastern researcher’s work leads to popular theory bearing his name

It’s not every day that a scientist gets a theory named after him. But when seismologists learned of Northeastern professor George Adams’s theory to help predict earthquake damage, they knew just what to call it: Adams Instability.

by Thea Singer October 6, 2015

January 26, 2012 - Lisa Feldman Barrett, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory. Dr. BarrettÕs research focuses on the nature of emotion from both psychological and neuroscience perspectives, and takes inspiration from anthropology, philosophy, and linguistics. Her lab takes an interdisciplinary perspective approach, and incorporates methods from social, clinical, and personality psychology, psychophysiology, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, and visual cognition.

Failure to reproduce results is ‘a normal part of how science works’

Lisa Feldman Barrett, University Distinguished Professor of Psychology, says that there is “not a cause for alarm” after a new paper revealed that many psychology studies’ results could not be replicated.

by Thea Singer September 10, 2015