NU Sci Staff

Changing the Carriers By Cicely Krebill, Biology, 2019 Climate change and the concept of a “carbon footprint” has long been in the forefront of the public’s eye. A new focus, however, in the realm of climate change is now being brought to the table for discussion: the risk of vector-borne diseases coming to new regions in […]

I Am Iron Ocean By Shannon Jones, Marine Biology, 2016 With the rise of global carbon dioxide levels, many researchers are looking to reduce anthropogenic climate change in order to reduce global biosphere change. The rise in temperature occurring currently is considered irreversible for at least 1,000 years after anthropogenic emissions stop. One method of reducing

Are We There Yet? Building the Grid of the Future By David Rosenberg, Chemical Engineering, 2020 The 2015 Paris Climate Conference ratified a global consensus that coal, oil, and natural gas combustion will need to fall dramatically in the coming decades. Nevertheless, the debate over how to power an increasingly energy-hungry world continues to rage. Technologies

Climate Change 101: From Atmosphere to Zebrafish By Jameson O’Reilly, Physics and Math, 2019 Statistically speaking, unless you are a member of Congress, you probably acknowledge that global climate change is happening and that it is a threat to humanity’s future. Even so, some of the details might be a little fuzzy. The story begins

How’s the Weather Down There? By Lucas Cohen, Marine Biology, 2019 At 1:42 pm EST on January 17th, NOAA’s Jason-3 satellite left earth strapped aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, primed to uncover global patterns in sea level rise and relay critical climate-relevant data to researchers at NOAA, NASA, and the French space agency, CNES. Jason-3

The Fate of Fat By Claire Williams, Biology, 2019 It’s the beginning of a new year. Everyone has been hitting the gym and burning some fat. Or have they? No, this isn’t a question of whether or not people are upholding their New Year’s resolutions. Rather, it is a question of the process at play. Is

Too Late to Apologize (to Earth)? By Brian Hempe, Mechanical Engineering, 2020 Carbon dioxide (CO2) significantly contributes to the greenhouse gas effect — in which solar energy is trapped and reflected off the ozone layer back towards Earth. This has a negative effect on the Earth because it changes weather patterns, and as recently observed, raises the global

Q&A With Toyoko Orimoto By Gwen Schanker, Journalism and Biology, 2017 Toyoko Orimoto is an assistant professor in Northeastern’s physics department, and is one of four faculty members who contribute to the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. Orimoto spends much of her time conducting research at Northeastern

Building with Biology By Joshua Timmons, Biology, 2016 There’s a frizzy-haired architect hunched over his keyboard at a workstation diagonal from my own in Snell. He has a colorful program open with a map of a city in two dimensions; streets, buildings, and decorations are represented by a pallet of orthogonal shapes, a gridwork of architectural