Marine plastic pollution
Remember the yellow plastic ducks that your mom used to give you to play with while bathing you? Those may become the only ducks to...
Joyce’s Ulysses brought to life in Virtual Reality
Joyce’s modernist love story, Ulysses, is one of the few works of literature that has attracted such intense textual scrutiny. It has...
How much do genes affect us?
Every individual carries two copies of the same chromosome, one which he inherits from his mother and one from his father. Each...
Behaviour change: Better or worse?
In 1939, research was conducted to study how a preventive intervention affected a child’s criminal behaviour. For this research, around...
Why data breach is a treasure trove for spammers?
Marriott, the world’s largest hotel chain, recently revealed that its Starwood guest reservation database has been hacked and that the...
The guide to Foster Care
All the months are dedicated to something or the other, like October being called ‘inktober’ or November being the ‘No Shave November’....
Terrorism expert, Twitter fan
For Max Abrahms, Twitter has opened up a whole new world with regard to his research and scholarship. Abrahms, a terrorism expert and...
The three Law-sketeers
Tara I. Allen, Candace Cain, and Linda (Jarrett) Cohn – graduated in Law in ’98, ’83, and ’97 respectively – beloved once-students of...
Opening up the old wounds in the American history
The New York Times dedicated an entire issue of its weekly magazine to examining the history of American slavery, calling it “The 1619...
Six Degrees Apart From Everyone
Let us start with an example. Consider having 10 friends on Facebook, where each 10 has 10 other friends who are not also your friends,...
Display screens its dirty ecosystem of pathogens
One major consideration when we talk about smartphones, laptops or television screens is the resolution of the display, and as a rough...
Devolving Education, not the way forward
Education is one of the fundamentals that construct the nature of human society. The forms, style, and means of education in a particular...
The curious case of cuprates
The concept of conductors and insulators is a simple one: the capability of a material to let electricity flow comes from the manner in...
The fish with the raised fins attacks in the United States
Human life is quite surprising, nobody knows what will happen in the time to come. Many a time it happens that in the bleakest of the...
Get your dancing shoes on!
The number of people with diabetes has risen from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2019. The global prevalence of diabetes among...
Celebrating Dr. King’s life and legacy
In the world of improved communication and faster access to information, it is important for us to know the boundaries and to look after...
Baker finds passion in energy justice law
In 2009, Shalanda Baker, a newly appointed Northeastern University professor with expertise in the interplay between global energy...
Landsmark: The most recent addition to the star faculty
An appointee to Mayor Martin J. Walsh’s Boston Planning and Development Agency Board of Directors, Landsmark joined Northeastern...
George H.W. Bush: The legacy for decades
George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, was the last in an “older breed of politicians” who treated the presidency...


















