New Scientist Antibacterial products may help bacteria beat antibiotics Most antibiotics kill bacteria by interfering with essential steps in their life cycle, such as making new cell walls when a bacterium reproduces by dividing. Since triclosan prevents bacteria growing, it makes them less likely to reproduce – and that may make bacteria impervious to antibiotics. “A dormant cell has not a lot of active […]
Misconceptions about terrorism in the aftermath of the Ohio State rampage The Ohio State rampage was clearly an act of political terrorism. But in all likelihood it was also a retaliatory hate crime — an attack meant to get revenge against Americans for the perceived maltreatment of Muslims. Previous research on hate motivated violence has shown that some offenders are emboldened to act violently when they […]
The Christian Science Monitor As yet another general joins Trump’s team, what does the pick reveal? “In general, Cabinet appointments are over-interpreted,” William Mayer, professor of political science at Northeastern University in Boston, told news@Northeastern. “There’s a great deal of uncertainty about every newly elected president as to what he will do and how he will reconcile conflicting elements within his campaign platform or within his party,” he added.
Quartz Research shows investors value an entrepreneur’s willingness to learn more than business acumen Several academic studies have demonstrated the impact coachability can have on an entrepreneur’s chances of securing funding. A 2010 study led by Cheryl R. Mitteness, an assistant teaching professor of entrepreneurship and innovation at Northeastern University, showed that coachability influences whether angel investors recommend moving forward with a company after a pitch.
Business Insider The opioid crisis could get worse if Trump repeals Obamacare “Health insurers have even more sway on a state level than the federal level, and the likelihood that they’ll mandate things that are beneficial to people is low,” said Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University School of Law. “Taking mandates away and decreasing regulation will make it harder […]
Voice of America Obama Defends Counterterrorism Record, Offers Guidance for Trump Terrorism expert Max Abrahms of Northeastern University disagrees, saying the “original sin” on Iraq was former President George W. Bush’s decision to depose former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. He also faults Obama for “regime change” in Libya. But Abrahms said Obama’s overall record in the fight against terror is “respectable.” “I think Obama, to his […]
TechTarget How transparent application checkpointing will impact developers This Q&A features highlights from a conversation with Gene Cooperman, a professor in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University in Boston. He is one of the main members of a team working to run what is known as transparent checkpointing on one of the world’s largest supercomputers, called Stampede. In the […]
Tech Republic 9 tools to navigate an ‘uncertain future,’ from new book, Whiplash “Humans are perpetually failing to grasp the significance of their own creations,” write Joi Ito and Jeff Howe in Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future. In the new title, released today, Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, and Howe, a journalism professor at Northeastern University andWired contributor, make the case that technology moves […]
Volunteers use new technology to donate voices to those with speech disorders Patel, who is also a speech technology professor on leave from Northeastern University, worked with Bunnell as a researcher. When she decided to bring the technology out of the lab, she developed her own method for blending voices and turned to crowdsourcing to gain access to enough voices to reflect the diversity of potential customers, […]
Tech Republic 100 million students worldwide will learn to code this week for Hour of Code With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), we are living in an increasingly networked and automated world, said Engin Kirda, professor of computer science at Northeastern University. “It is important to get students interested and excited about computer science because this is a field that will most certainly directly impact their lives in […]
The Week Will President Trump quash scientific progress in America? President Bush also allowed other areas of scientific discovery to languish, cutting America’s leadership on a global scale. Pran Nath, a particle physicist at Northeastern University, told LiveScience that America lost its leadership in particle physics under President Bush, “leaving Europe and Japan to assume leadership role in this area.”
The Week What happened to America under previous ‘hands-off’ presidents? Civil war and financial collapse. To his admirers, like Reagan and the business site CheckWriters, this shows that Coolidge “was no micromanager,” and his famous habit of “empowering his Cabinet officials” meant his “Roaring ’20s White House was never bogged down by process” and therefore “functioned like a well-oiled Model T Ford.” And that was probably true in his first […]