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Since 2006, Northeastern University has dramatically expanded its research enterprise, with particular emphasis on three global imperatives: health, security and sustainability. Working intentionally across disciplines, Northeastern faculty members are focused on solving real problems in the world. NGN Research tells the stories of these important accomplishments.

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Report offers advice on how investors can make public health investments a safer bet

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February 18, 2026

The “Investor Action on Health” report examines how investors can move the dial on health areas to make them ripe for investment.

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Attendees look at a marked up map of the Guadalupe River during a Texas state Senate and House Select Committees on Disaster Preparedness and Flooding public hearing, in Kerrville, Texas, Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

New data tool boosts preparedness for potentially deadly flooding

Science & Technology

February 13, 2026

A new tool spearheaded by Northeastern University interfaces with NOAA’s National Water Model to deliver historic and forecasted flood data to community members involved in flood and emergency preparedness.

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Ashwagandha is having a moment. These researchers opened the door to more life-altering benefits

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February 11, 2026

Ashwagandha, a popular supplement, is known for its effect on stress and sleep. Researchers recreated its compounds in yeast, making a potential factory for its many benefits.

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N.F.L. Careers Scarred Their Brains. Could Mushrooms Provide Relief?

Last year, researchers at Northeastern University, trying to simulate the velocity of an N.F.L. collision, repeatedly struck the heads of rats and then provided them with psilocybin. 

Does String Theory Explain the Wiring of the Brain?

Senior author Albert-László Barabási, a distinguished professor and network scientist at Northeastern University, emphasizes that the paper isn’t claiming any profound, direct relationship between string theory and neuroscience.

There’s no mass shooting epidemic, but fear epidemic is real | Opinion

As someone who has studied mass killings for more than 40 years and manages the Associated Press/USA TODAY/Northeastern University Mass Killing Database, I’ve kept a close eye on the social factors…

Octopuses can become invisible. And now scientists are discovering their secrets.

How cephalopods achieve this instant camouflage is a mystery that has fascinated humans since at least 350 B.C., when Aristotle made observations on the subject, says Leila Deravi, an associate…

Local Study asks what it will take to get more Boston commuters to take the bus

Northeastern University PhD candidate Nail Bashan believes public transit is the best thing we can have in our cities. Bashan’s research focuses on urban mobility and the urban experience. 

The Flu Really Is That Bad

Flu seasons, as a rule, differ drastically from one another, and “we don’t have a great understanding of why one ends up being more severe than another,” Samuel Scarpino, an…

Trump declared fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. What does it mean?

Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, discusses the latest Fentanyl crisis. 

Video games may be a surprisingly good way to get a cognitive boost

Aaron Seitz, a professor of psychology and the director of the Brain Game Center for Mental Fitness and Well-being at Northeastern University, discusses how video games nehances complex cognitive skills.

Soundtracks of our lives

This is Rebecca Kleinberger. She is a professor of humanics and voice technology at Northeastern University, and much of her research focuses on the relationship we have to our own…

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