Liz Bucar, PhD, a religion professor at Northeastern University and author of Beyond Wellness, has a theory about why. The version of mindfulness most of us are practicing has been carefully, deliberately, and strategically emptied of the very elements that made it work in the first place.

Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University who studies sex differences in behavior and brain function, submitted a grant at the end of 2024 that got a score that was likely, though not certain, to be funded.

“This is not a protein ‘reading’ itself to create a complex message; rather, it is a highly specialized structural constraint,” Northeastern University’s Nikolai Slavov, a chemical biologist who is unaffiliated with the study, wrote.

“It’s kind of giving industry a way out,” said Julia Varshavsky, a public health and engineering professor at Northeastern University.

Darin Detwiler, a food safety professor at Northeastern University, says, adding that “Ground beef should be treated as a high-risk, perishable food,” making it important to use it quickly after purchasing.

Harry Levant, director of gambling policy at Northeastern University’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, told WBUR’s Amy Sokolow that the online gambling industry is “out of control” and causing a public health crisis.

“It could be a turning point,” says Robert Platt, who studies engineering and robotics at Northeastern University.

The company also announced the formation of a new AI Wellbeing Expert Council assembled to provide “ongoing input” on AI teen experiences. The experts are affiliated with the National Council for Suicide Prevention, the University of Michigan, and Northeastern University, among other institutions.

Companies have enforced strict return-to-office mandates, in part, to reestablish in-person professional norms that eroded during the pandemic — the same window that researchers at Northeastern University believe disrupted the formative communication development development of workers who were in high school or early college during COVID lockdowns.

Addresses an op-ed on SNAP benefits written by Christopher Bosso, a political science professor at Northeastern University.

This is the largest such case in at least 20 years, according to a review of a mass killings database by USA TODAY, the Associated Press and Northeastern University research professor of criminology James Alan Fox.

Op-ed by David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University.