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Aerial view of a boat leaving a long, dark trail across open water mottled with patches of oil.

The researchers using AI to avert another Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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by Peter Rubinstein
A person on the deck of a large ship lowers a robotic device over the side by a cable, beside an orange life ring on the railing.

How do you clean a giant ship? This student builds robots for the job

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by Katya Poltorak
A researcher in a blue lab coat, safety glasses and gloves examines a small glowing tube beside a lab instrument fitted with reagent bottles, tubing and a tray of sample vials.

Could a molecular ZIP code unlock treatments for untreatable diseases?

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by Katya Poltorak
Three rats rummaging around black garbage bags full of trash on a street in daylight.

Boston’s rats are talking. Scientists are listening with AI

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by Katya Poltorak
Two quadcopter drones in flight at an outdoor drone cage in Burlington, Massachusetts

These Northeastern professors are ‘sculpting’ radio waves

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by Cesareo Contreras
Close-up of a police body-worn camera clipped to the chest of a dark uniform shirt.

AI turns bodycam footage into text. Can it keep the speakers straight?

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by Katya Poltorak
A student wearing a virtual reality headset holds controllers while using a VR system in Northeastern University’s Immersive Media Lab.

This virtual reality system lets healthcare students practice with AI

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by Tanner Stening
A pipette tip releases a single droplet into a small sample tube, shot from above in pink and blue lab lighting.

PFAS may raise blood pressure during pregnancy. Who is at risk?

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by Katya Poltorak
A spider with a yellow, black and white striped abdomen at the center of its web, a silk-wrapped grasshopper just below it and blurred purple lavender in the background.

A spider in disguise puts wildlife travel habits in the spotlight

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by Katya Poltorak
Wang looks into a microscope eyepiece and adjusts a sample with a gloved hand as a nearby monitor displays rings of cells glowing green against a dark background.

Who knew? Cells have memory, professor describes in paper

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by Rich McKay
Close-up of a microchip on a circuit board lit in blue and red.

This AI-powered chip can offer a deeper look at faulty brain activity

Headshot of Katya Poltorak
by Katya Poltorak
Illustration of a car surrounded by disembodied eyes, with a beam of binary code connecting a central eye to the vehicle; icons for cloud storage, a personal ID, location tracking, and data charts surround the scene, symbolizing surveillance and data collection from connected vehicles.

Your car is collecting more data about you than you think

Headshot of Cesareo Contreras
by Cesareo Contreras