Ebola Virus Disease: An epidemic with no end
Ebola virus disease (EVD) is one of the rarest and the most fatal illnesses infecting a large part of the human population. Formerly...
Opioid Addiction and Preventive Measures
Opioid is a class of drug that includes the illegal drug heroin, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, and pain relievers available legally...
Exploring the mystery of cracks
Ever wondered if cracks could lead to incredible innovations? Professor Alain Karma explains how it’s possible. Mr.Karma, a professor of...
New technology to advance antibiotic discovery
An antibiotic is a type of substance active against bacteria and is the most important type of antibacterial agent for fighting bacterial...
Historic Meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong
The meeting of two tyrannous leaders sparked the world with numerous speculations on whether the third world war is on the edges or a...
Mollusk that eats rocks!
It was a believe it or not moment for Reuben Shipway, a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University when he first found the...
Medicines? Apparently, none for women!
Would you take medicines if you were told that it has been tested only on men and male animals and never on women? Rebecca Shansky, a...
Medical Service: “Give, Inspire, and Transform”
The three pillars of a disadvantaged country are the dysfunction of education, medicine, and employment sector. What adds to the...
How Resilience Can Blunt Impact of Terrorist Attack
While terrorists are motivated for a variety of reasons, one thing that makes terrorism attractive as a means of warfare is that an...
How you can detect SCD
According to an article in the journal Circulation in the US, on average, a competitive athlete dies every three days from SCD, often due...
Using Particle Physics to Answer Life’s Mysteries
Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between...
Human versus Artificial Intelligence: A war for unity
A famous American TV series, How I Met Your Mother has a folk song, “Marshall versus Machine”, which is interesting because it is exactly...
Balance and Ballet
Balance is the most neglected but the most important of all things in our lives. Standing, walking, holding something; everything...
Conversations with Crops
Plant damage is, perhaps, the most dreaded situation by farmers. With plant diseases and insects damaging crops, it has become important...
Reason why evolving fishes are so interesting
5 Million years ago, the two Americas collided- leading to changes in the flow of Gulf Stream. Gulf Stream was warm current. After the...
Podcasts can do much better than videos
Molly Beck, a graduate from the Northeastern University, has come up with a new idea about podcasts that gathered more attention as it...
A Chatbot That Can Comfort Dying Patients
Timothy Bickmore, a human-computer interaction expert in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University,...
Students won 2nd position in the Hyperloop competition
Hyperloop is a mode of transportation that can be described as an open source vacuum-train whose design was released by Tesla and SpaceX....
How Northeastern Students are using their Creativity?
A group of students from Northeastern University is trying to make the lives of people better. It draws students from across disciplines...



















