Cyber crime: Daylight robbery on the internet?
Sophisticated and coordinated attacks can take down websites of some of the largest organisations in the world. From the infamous...
Playing the Empathy Card
Apart from a few rotten tomatoes in our society, everyone loves dogs. However, not less than our own babies, right? Well, an interesting...
Will humans and robots work together in the future?
At Northeastern University, researchers are in the process of studying how humans coordinate hand-offs with one another and teaching...
Spirituality of psychedelics
“How many of my readers are going to be interested in something that’s kind of fringy?” Micheal Pollan says from his office at Harvard,...
Origami- inspired tissue engineering
Cells are the building blocks of tissue and tissues are the basic unit of function in the body. A group of these tissues and cells make...
What makes underwater popping rocks explode on surface?
Have you ever heard about ‘Popping Rocks’?! No? Well, believe it or not but there lies deep within the ocean a special variety of rock...
When Art makes art
Art Spiegelman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and illustrator. During his lecture at Northeastern University, he said, “Comics burn...
What if superconductors could work at room temperature?
Superconductivity is the set of physical properties observed in certain materials, wherein electrical resistance vanishes and from which...
Physical therapy is more fun with video games
Danielle Levac, professor of Physical Therapy in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University, has developed video...
Antibiotic-Resistant Infections: Can we treat them?
Antibiotic resistance has been a growing public health concern. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),...
Should 3D printing of arms become legal
Violence is a persistent problem in the US. It results in thousands of deaths and injuries annually. In 2013, there were 73,505 nonfatal...
Colosseum – DARPA’s not Rome’s
Colosseum is DARPA’s very powerful emulator of wireless systems; it is named after the grand Roman amphitheatre. It resides in a 30-foot...
Can Robots really ‘see’ smell?
Northeastern University’s own biology professor, Joseph Ayers, has dedicated all his time and energy to developing robots that are...
Keeping humanity alive in the artificial-intelligence era
There is a race going on in the artificial-intelligence sector. Everyone wants to get their hands on the next best thing as soon as...
Cultivating Cannabis in an innovative way.
Modernisation has its own adverse effects. With the increasing standard of life, infrastructural requirements have increased. Cities...
How are Social Robots helping people?
A robot called Jibo has been helping the veterans at a hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts, by guiding them in a yoga exercise. Arielle...
Metamaterials can be the first step into Potter world
Our mundane souls are tired from praying for J.K. Rowling’s world to be real – magic wands, invisible cloaks, flying brooms, moving...
Rains or Improper Management- What caused floods in India?
The Indian subcontinent receives rains, four months a year. Being an agricultural country, these rains are a blessing. Our culture and...
Rental parking space through phones is now a reality.
Traffic bottlenecks are one of the biggest infrastructural problems in metropolitan cities. As a succession of this issue, there is a...



















