There’s always a story behind the story. When I talk to researchers about new papers or grants, I ask way more questions than I can possibly cover in the body of a News@Northeastern article. One of my favorite questions to ask is “how did you get interested in this line of work?” It almost always ...
So let’s pretend that your car wasn’t built by human hands, but just kind of landed in your driveway one day, after a morning drive through outer space. You, and auto-mechanics everywhere, have no idea how it works and getting around that is made particularly difficult because you can only get under the hood when ...
This afternoon, reading through Professor Kim Lewis’ soon to be published article in Cell Press (available ahead of print here), I may have fancied myself something of a private investigator with the high stakes job of providing a comprehensive picture of his new findings for you, my dedicated reader. It was a pretty action-heavy couple ...
It should come as no surprise that an ultra-marathoner would be a person with significant ambition (an “ultra,” as it’s called by those in the know, is any race longer than 26.2 miles). Fifth year chemistry and chemical biology graduate student Joslynn Lee certainly fits that bill. On top of her own running, she also ...
Have you ever heard of hydrogen exchange as an analytical technique? I hadn’t until the day before yesterday. Actually, I hadn’t heard of hydrogen exchange, period. Forget the qualifier. I know you’re bursting at the seams to find out, so I won’t make you wait any longer. Hydrogen exchange is exactly what it claims to ...