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From perilous to practical: How mining areas are changing in the modern age By Christina Curran, Biochemistry, 2023 Photo: Shutterstock The death of the American mining industry has often been blamed for the decay of Appalachian communities. Indeed, it is difficult to see opportunity in the ghostly shafts so deep beneath the earth. Officials have warned […]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Can urban planning help mitigate the harmful effects of climate change? By Sreeja Daliparthy, Computer Science/Biology, 2023 Sustainability is the buzzword of the decade. A global society that seems to be toeing the line between risk and disaster combined with an increasingly outspoken youth population preaching the dangers of excessive consumption

Climate Action Needed The Devastating Effects of the Australian Fires By Maria Harsvik, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023 Source: Pixabay From the viral spread of images showing severely burned koalas wrapped tightly in rescue blankets to donation pages dominating social media outlets, nearly everyone has some idea of the impact of the Australian bushfires. However, it remains unclear

Why do bees make hexagon shapes? By Lauren Voso, Biology with Environmental Science Minor, 2024 Source: Pixabay Think of the world’s most ingenious and complex feats of engineering. Maybe you thought of creative architectural buildings, grand dams, or modernly designed bridges. But would you ever think the bees in your backyard could engineer something just as

Hot or Not: What Makes Humans Attractive? By Jaeyoon Lee, English and Biology, 2022 Source: Pixabay Angles to make us taller, lighting to conceal or bring out features, and sometimes, Photoshop. Some say beauty is only skin-deep, but look across social media, magazines, or movies to get a taste of what people do to look

Visionaries By Lucas Principe, Environmental Science and Philosophy, 2020 Source: Pixabay This piece was published as part of Issue 34: Color. It is sometime in the mid-3rd century BCE. Aristotle, the most famous philosopher of his day, is strolling through the sunlight grove of the school he established, The Lyceum, discussing his ideas on a

How drinking can literally change the ‘Shape of You’: Effect of alcohol on neuronal structure of the brain By Sharvari Ajit Deepti Narendra, Bioinformatics, 2020 Source: Pixabay When people think of alcohol, their mind might remember the last time they were drunk — the low glutamate levels causing their thought process to slow down, the increased gamma-Aminobutyric acid

A Snapshot of American Wind Energy By Lucas Principe, Environmental Science and Philosophy, 2020 Source: Pixabay This article was originally published as part of Issue 35: Motion. The Mechanism Wind power, which is generated from wind turbines, harnesses the energy of wind currents to create electricity. The currents push on the slanted blades of the wind

Faculty Highlight: Dr. Randall Hughes-Associate Professor, Marine and Environmental Sciences Department By Lucas Principe, Environmental Science and Philosophy, 2020 Source: Pixabay This article was originally published as part of Issue 33: Water. Dr. Randall Hughes has been a professor in the Marine and Environmental Science Department here at Northeastern since January of 2013. She teaches