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...
What you’re missing by not reading the fine print
Among all the fundamental rights taught to us in school, one right that didn’t quite get highlighted enough was the ‘right to privacy’....
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...
Climate change: A trend in flooding
There is an urgent need to manage climate change which eventually causes floods that cause damage to human life and property. These types...
Lyme Disease: Cure by Breaking Walls
Lyme borreliosis or Lyme disease is an infectious disease that is caused by Borrelia bacterium. This disease is spread by ticks and...
Using squids to camouflage better
Squids are highly interesting animals, with peculiar features bestowed on them by mother nature. One of those things is how squids can...
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...
Synchrony, Child Psychology, and Brain Development
Interactional synchrony refers to how a parent’s speech and infant’s behaviour become finely synchronised so that they are in direct...
Can plants give medicine too?
The field of medicine has witnessed changes and developments for decades. But there are some medicines that survived the test of time and...
Virtual healing
A Cerebral palsy is a group of disorders that affect movement and muscle tone or posture. It’s caused by damage that occurs to the...
Memories, attention, and their psychological effects
Do you ever catch yourself, lost, thinking about the olden times? Well, not the prehistoric periods but the nostalgic childhood days and...
Echochambers on your feed
Facebook’s dodgy history with advertisement is one of the most researched online algorithms. The proprietary algorithm supposedly...
Discoveries: Predictable or Random
Roberta Sinatra, along with her group of colleagues, had researched the predictability of discoveries. Sinatra, visiting research...
Conducting experiments, but on paper
Ever heard of a scientist writing short stories? – It is actually a rare case, next to impossible to find. Northeastern University,...
Fake it till you make it
Medicine is one of the most coveted and noble professions- and this is no joke. The studying and knowledge part of it is one giant part...
Psychedelic pandemic
The term ‘psychedelic’ is derived from the Greek wordspsyche, “soul, mind” and delein, “to manifest”, hence “soul-manifesting”, the...
Nano features to solve problems
Using screws and wires for fixing fractured bones is a common procedure. In fact, in some cases, these may be the only solution. However,...
Reversing the aging process
“The Interdisciplinary Healthy Aging Initiative brings together stakeholders both within the university and outside in an effort to deal...
Making aliens talk to humans
We humans have a simple word to greet anyone around us. Just a ‘Hi’ and we can start the conversation and take it anywhere we want. I...



















