Using bacteria as a building block
Neel Joshi, an associate professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Northeastern, came up with a plan, which may sound too fictional...
Are neighbours the key to end child abuse?
Family problems don’t mean small skirmishes in the household anymore; there have been many incidents where tortures, violence,...
Saving the world together
If we take a look at the pressing and prominent problems that the world is currently facing, be it political or health-related, what we...
Russian Hackers attack again
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden spoke at a Fire Fighter Chili and Canvass Kickoff in Concord, N.H. on...
To control or not to control
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a double-edged sword that brings to us innovation but at a cost. With its sudden advent, regulations...
Replacing coal with old plastic and corn stalks
Coal is one of the important components of producing fuel and energy. However, burning coal causes severe air pollution as it emits...
How forever are these forever chemicals?
Although environmental degradation has been a hot topic for a while, there still remains to this day a vast amount of misconception and...
Brain and its mysterious ways of working
R222 was the name given to a rat who was affected by an abnormal condition called, hydrocephalus. It is a condition where the space...
Understanding the instability of waves from an earthquake
The occurrence of an earthquake is probably one of the worst natural disasters. They cause devasting catastrophe and extensive losses....
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...
Exercise helps in boosting anti-ageing protein in the human body
Our skin is the largest organ of the human body that helps in protecting us from the outer world of infections and unwanted microbes. It...
CBD- Cannabis products, their benefits, and harms
CBD or Cannabidiol is one of the 113 cannabinoids in cannabis plants. It is used in many ways which have both benefits as well as harms...
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...
Can Subatomic behaviours be understood?
Gregory Fiete is a professor of Physics at the Northeastern University. He spent 10 years at the University of Texas, Austin before...
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...
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...
We only fear what we don’t understand
It is in human nature to fear the unknown. When we don’t know what is going to happen or what is coming next. Most phobias work on ‘what...
Earthquakes and the massacre caused
Earthquakes can cause more dangerous consequences than what is already expected. Because of the huge debris that is scattered on the...
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,...



















