Yes, I know what you’re going to say and I don’t want to talk about it. It’s been a busy couple of weeks and the webcrawl just fell into the abyss. But it’s back, as I know you’re incredibly relieved to hear. And don’t worry, today’s list includes some highlights from not one but two weeks ...
I’ve said it here before: I’m not much of a gamer. My 9-year-old nephew gets exasperated every time he sets me up in front of the Wii and ultimately just takes the controller away from me so he can deal with both characters at once. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t get excited when I ...
Last night I finally got a chance to finish reading all of the stories in the 14th issue of NUScience, which hit the shelves a few weeks ago. The magazine is Northeastern’s first and only science magazine, and, as far as I know a pretty unique undertaking in the undergraduate world. They’ve been around since ...
If Einstein’s theory of relativity is wrong, then this whole thing we call the universe is either a dream or it works a lot differently than we suspected. So far, all the pieces of the theory have fallen into place, with good evidence to support them. All except one. We’ve been hearing about it for ...
It’s that time of year again, when all the budding researchers around Northeastern’s campus emerge from their underground tunnel labs, blinking at the light of day as they make their way to Cabot Cage on Friday for RISE:2013, the Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo, hosted by the Center for Research Innovation. This year nearly 400 ...
Okay, yet again an overdue webcrawl (maybe I should just make this a Sunday or Monday feature instead of Friday?), but no less exciting a week in the sclogosphere: There was a lot of digging up of dead people last week, or at least reporting on it. We learned ancient egyptians lived a hard-knock life and that ...
Last week’s Webcrawl got stuck in a snowbank on Friday morning. It took me all weekend to dig it out. (Actually, that’s fiction, but the true story is much less exciting.) Here are a few of my favorite science stories from last week: I’m sure you didn’t miss it, but a baby born with AIDS ...
In recognition of sequestration–across-the-baord federal spending cuts that automatically take effect today–I’m dedicating this week’s webcrawl to the beauty of science. First, watch this and swoon: via Wired. This video reminds me of two things: The world is a beautiful place that deserves our attention, exploration, and educated protection. Politics are a lot like the ...
Engineers are good at tracking things. That’s according to Northeastern graduate student, Sarah Brown. As a fellow of Draper Laboratory in Cambridge, Brown is collaborating with researchers at both Draper and Northeastern to track something that has never really been tracked before: emotion. Well, let me rephrase that. Emotion has been tracked before, but not ...
Like all humans, scientists come in every shape, size and color imaginable. Every now and then I run into a real character. That is most certainly the case with the subject of my story on the News@Northeastern today. Professor Michail Sitkovsky is a burly man with a mutinous brow and thick accent that makes everything ...
Hi friends. This week’s Webcrawl is coming in a little late, but it’s been no less raucous a science party than usual. Wind down your weekend with the following lovely reads: Jane Goodall has written a new book, but this one is about plants rather than chimps. Here’s a fabulous interview at the Smithsonian. If ...
After winter storm ‘Nemo’ dropped two feet of snow on us a couple weeks ago, it took the City of Boston two days to plow one of the roads leading to my home. The other was still buried beneath a thick, icy blanket for another day. The term “global warming” has been sitting on our ...