Want to stop aging? Worms might be the fix
There is no denying that we all age and grow old, in fact, all living things do too. There’s no changing that but what if you could...
Autonomous weapon systems and laws of war
The arms race and principle of protectionism has given rise to autonomous weapons that are now eventually coming in a battlefield. These...
Could we all really move to mars one day?
Could there really be life on Mars? This question has fascinated mankind for generations. And of all the planets in the Solar System,...
The Codex at the Northeastern University
The Codex Atlanticus is a twelve-volume, bound set of drawings and writings in Italian by Leonardo da Vinci. It is the largest such set,...
Removal of instagram likes
Several Instagram users will only double-tap a post and there will be no appearance of a number of likes. The decision to hide like...
New-age music
Music is a universal form of art that has evolved over the centuries into something humans can use to express themselves, irrespective of...
Evolution in antibiotics
In recent times, medicine has led to an increase in average life expectancy which was only around 36 at the end of the 1800s. Improving...
Don’t have your boarding pass? Your face will do
You’re in a long line at the airport. You’re up next for boarding. At the checking, instead of reaching for your boarding pass, you pull...
Invisible man
Two men were walking on a street side-by-side towards a camera. One of them was wearing a black outfit and another, white T-shirt with...
Starbucks on wheels
Starbucks on wheels, yay or nay? Northeastern Dining rolled out a Starbucks bike, last fall. The bike serves 16-ounce cups of Nitro Cold...
Facebook’s discriminatory ads
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the House Financial Services Committee to answer questions from lawmakers about his...
Carro: Transforming from zero to 100 almost overnight!
“I went from zero to 100 almost overnight,” says Manit Ghogar, who graduated from Northeastern University. Within six months of starting...
Investigative Journalism: The truth matters
As the fourth pillar of the modern democratic state, it is the responsibility of the media to maintain an unbiased and unrelenting...
Own unique synthetic speech?
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech...
Finding ways to break up the chains of human trafficking in agricultural sector of the U.S.
Labour trafficking in the United States is a form of human trafficking where victims are made to perform a task through force, fraud or...
Emergence: Crowdsourcing inspired by the bees
In nature, no single individual bee has the intellectual or organisational capacity to build a beehive, yet a group of several thousand...
Measuring pain in a whole new way
Pain is a difficult outcome to measure due to its multifaceted and subjective nature. The need for selecting proper outcome measures is...
Fear- how does it work in our brains?
Fear is a deeply wired fundamental reaction that has evolved over the history of biology in order to protect organisms against the...
Imagine being able to grow back new limbs
An adorable, tiny, smiley-faced, and feathery-gilled Mexican salamander called an axolotl could be the answer to the future’s medical...



















