Aroma in Action: Enhancing Cognition with Peppermint

By Whitney Kuwamoto, Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019

Peppermint is most commonly known as a breath-freshening agent or a tasty additive to holiday candies, but did you know that it also possesses considerable…

Breaking The Ice: The Changing Face of Climate Change in Mass Media

By Erica Yee, Journalism and Information Science, 2020

Uncut Interview: Professor Tarik Gouhier on Statistics, Modeling, and Climate Change

NUScience’s Lucas Cohen sat down with Professor Tarik Gouhier to discuss his background and research as part of a feature for NUScience magazine issue 28. This unabbreviated transcript…

I Am Iron Ocean

By Shannon Jones, Marine Biology, 2016

With the rise of global carbon dioxide levels, many researchers are looking to reduce anthropogenic climate change in order to reduce global biosphere change. The rise in temperature occurring currently is considered irreversible for at…

Climate Change Could Spell Seafood Shortage

By Margaret Blagbrough, Environmental Science, 2017

Imagine — a future in which seafood restaurants in the most popular beach resort towns are no longer in business. Why? Thank climate change. According to a recent study by…

Remember Me? What We Know about Dementia

By Katie Hudson, Marine Biology, 2017

I could tell you exactly where I was when I learned about the 9/11 attacks, when Michael Jackson died, or when the bombs went off on Marathon Monday. But sometimes, I couldn’t tell you what I had…

Climate Change 101: From Atmosphere to Zebrafish

By Jameson O’Reilly, Physics and Math, 2019

Statistically speaking, unless you are a member of Congress, you probably acknowledge that global climate change is happening and that it is a threat to humanity’s future. Even…

Leaving a Leg(acy): Donating Your Body and Brain to Science

By Stephanie Wasiuk, Biology, 2017

People always say “I want to make a difference in the world, leave it better than I found it.” Most probably have something flashy in mind, like pulling the entire…

Are We There Yet? Building the Grid of the Future

By David Rosenberg, Chemical Engineering, 2020

The 2015 Paris Climate Conference ratified a global consensus that coal, oil, and natural gas combustion will need to fall dramatically in the coming decades…

Stumped by Trees

By Emily Ashbolt, Biomedical Physics, 2017

How many trees are there in on your road? In Boston? In the US? Could you estimate? Where would you go to find out?

If you answered “I don’t know” to any or all of the above questions, you are not alone…