Debugging the gender gap in computer science: Women were the original programmers, so why aren’t they still doing it? By Claire Bohlig, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Minor, 2023 Source: Popular Mechanics, October 1944 Computer programming is stereotypically a male nerd field, much more than other scientific or engineering disciplines. When you picture a programmer, it is probably […]

Talking to Your Mother with That Mouth: The Development of Language in Infants By Emma Tusuzian, Psychology, 2023 Source: Shutterstock At four months old, we begin our linguistic journeys with receptive language, or the ability to comprehend speech. This means we can already distinguish phonemes, the most basic units of sound. Around the same time, we

A Walk on the Wildling Side By Theodore Fisher, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020 Source: Shutterstock This past August, researchers from the National Institute of Health published a study in Science aimed at improving translational immunology. Their findings demonstrate a crucial variable leading rodent laboratory research astray, which may bear responsibility for several failed human clinical drug trials.

One of the Most Terrifying Predators You Know Used to be a Vegetarian By Kristina Klosowski, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 Source: Pixabay The crocodile is one of the oldest creatures on the planet. For over 200 million years they have roamed the earth, surviving mass extinctions and outliving the dinosaurs. With their eerie ability to lay

Why Carrots Are Orange: The Domestication of Your Favorite Healthy Snack By Jason M. Denoncourt, Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry, 2023 Photo credit: Gabriel Mzaouakk The common name for wild carrots is Queen Anne’s Lace. With its illustrious, white summer flowers and pale, branching root systems, this subspecies hardly resembles everyone’s favorite healthy snack. Yet, over numerous generations

The STEM of Their Interest: The Lit Review Does Come Through and Emily Navarrete in the Williams Lab By Hugh Shirley, Biochemistry 2019 Navarrete fixes DNA, bound to a small metal disc, onto the AFM. This is the final of four pieces in the “STEM of Their Interest” series by Hugh Shirley, featuring Northeastern undergraduates and research

Gasdermin and the illusive inflammasome By Hugh Shirley, Biochemistry, 2019 Source: Shutterstock This piece was originally published as part of Issue 40: Wonder. There’s more than one way that a cell can kill itself. The standard version of cell suicide, apoptosis, is happening constantly within our bodies. When a cell detects damage, harmful mutations, or

The STEM of Their Interest: iLOV E. coli featuring Trina Hong and the Lewis Lab By Hugh Shirley, Biochemistry 2019 This is the second of four pieces in the “STEM of Their Interest” series by Hugh Shirley, featuring Northeastern undergraduates and research labs. This piece was originally published as part of our Summer 2018 series. The

The STEM of Their Interest: The Machine Learning Learning Machine, Biruk Abreha in the Lopez Lab By Hugh Shirley, Biochemistry, 2019 This is the third of four pieces in the “STEM of Their Interest” series by Hugh Shirley, featuring Northeastern undergraduates and research labs. This piece was originally published as part of our Summer 2018 series.