Superhydrophobic Material Researchers at the University of Rochester were recently featured in the news for creating a super-hydrophobic metal using a high-powered laser. It is the perfect scientific news story — shiny metals, slow motion water droplets, lasers — but the real world implications of this story are also very exciting. The idea behind the experiment has been observed […]

Egg-cellence in Research By Nilufar Nasirova, Biochemistry, 2018 Cancer is one of the most deadly groups of diseases, taking away millions of lives every year. In 2012 the number of patients diagnosed with cancer worldwide was over 14 million. The World Health Organization, or WHO, predicts that this number will continue to grow every year and

Exoplanets in the Lab By Aria Elahi, Biology 2017 The shock compression of stishovite and other forms of silica has allowed physicist Mariot Miller of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and his colleagues to replicate theoretical conditions of giant planet cores. This reveals a great deal of the “structure formation and evolution of giant planets and

Under the (Three) Seas By Katie Hudson, Marine Biology, 2017 Between the torrential downpours, the geckos, birds, and howler monkeys that act as my alarm clock, and the sloths I’ve befriended, it’s hard to forget where I am. Currently, I am living at the Smithsonian’s Tropical Research Institute in Bocas del Toro, Panama with Northeastern’s Three

Less Than Lethal Injections By Adanya Lustig, Linguistics, 2018 “Wood repeatedly gasped for one hour and 40 minutes before death was pronounced.” (July 23, 2014) “Lockett began breathing heavily, writhing on the gurney, clenching his teeth and straining to lift his head off the pillow. Lockett died of a heart attack 43 minutes after the

Into the World of Chimeras By Yang Lin, Chemical Engineering 2018 Genetically engineering humans remains one of the most controversial topics today. Altering the germline, which is defined as the DNA that is passed on from generation to generation, is often seen among the scientific community as taboo, unethical, and “playing God.” Critics of human germline

The Last of the White Rhinos By Abigail Pietrow, Biology, 2018 On the 17th of October, in a wildlife conservancy in Kenya, a 34-year-old Northern White Rhinoceros died. The male rhinoceros, Suni, was one of only seven of his subspecies left alive in the world, and one of only two males. Throughout the 20th century the

Northeastern’s Health Disparities Student Collaborative By Chloe Nobuhara, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2017 When someone mentions the field of medicine, what comes first to mind? Maybe you think of cutting-edge research on breast cancer, or perhaps you envision a thrilling image of the da Vinci Surgical System. Either way, the thoughts on the forefronts of our minds

Hot Jobs and Frozen Eggs By Natasha Mathur, Behavioral Neuroscience 2018 Being a woman in the workforce has never been easy. For years, women have been jumping hurdles trying to prove that they can be “one of the guys” in the workplace. Over the past 50 years, the number of women in the workplace has increased