physics
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Awards in science, engineering, the arts among honors to Northeastern community
Every year, Northeastern faculty, students, and staff earn distinguished recognition for their innovative research. In the past five months, the honors have ranged from a…
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Physicist uses light to accelerate treatment of drug-resistant cancers
Assistant professor Bryan Spring develops photodynamic therapies that both target malignant cells and halt new tumor growth. It’s a novel one-two punch approach to personalized…
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The growth of physics research, and its changing impact on our lives
Over the past century, the discipline of physics has expanded exponentially, crossing boundaries into areas as diverse as biology and engineering. Network scientists in the…
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Researchers find the organization of the human brain to be nearly ideal
A new strategy for mapping networks, from those underlying the Internet to the human brain, suggests possibilities for repairing damaged connections and disrupting dangerous ones.
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Swiss Mountains beckon physics student for dream co-op
Working at the Large Hadron Collider has been Nick DePorzio’s dream since his senior year in high school. In a couple weeks, that dream will…
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Cloudy with a chance of pumpkins
On Thursday, first-year engineering students participated in the annual fall event dubbed an “egg drop on steroids,” in which pumpkins are hurled off atop Gainsborough…
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The science of a career
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The wonder of human movement
Northeastern professor Dagmar Sternad received the 50th annual Robert D. Klein University Lecturer Award on Tuesday and discussed her interdisciplinary research on how the brain…
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Where art and science intersect
Photo by Mary Knox Merrill. The following post was generously contributed by Santiago Gil, a postdoctoral research associate at…
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Brilliant and motivated, but a good hire?
World-renowned network scientist Albert László Barabási was installed as the inaugural Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science on Monday, when he delivered a lecture…
