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AI is helping scientists and startups fight El Niño
“Some of the strongest benefits of AI are in the areas of climate and weather,” said Auroop Ganguly, climate director at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI and author of a recent study that used AI to study how El Niño changes the flow of major rivers like the Ganges and Amazon. In older computer models of […]
Boston scientists say they’re a step closer to growing human eggs in the lab Researchers in George Church’s lab at Harvard have made mini ovaries-in-a-dish
“If you’re making an egg to make a baby, the bar for quality is off the charts, because you can’t screw it up,” said Jonathan Tilly, a professor of biology who studies stem cells at Northeastern University.
Boston scientists say they’re a step closer to growing human eggs in the lab
Some researchers question whether lab-grown eggs can ever be thoroughly tested enough for reproductive purposes. “If you’re making an egg to make a baby, the bar for quality is off the charts, because you can’t screw it up,” said Jonathan Tilly, a professor of biology who studies stem cells at Northeastern University.
Job Screening Service Halts Facial Analysis of Applicants
Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor at Northeastern University who studies analysis of emotion, says a person’s face does not on its own reveal emotion or character. “Just by looking at someone smiling, you can’t really tell anything about them except maybe that they have nice teeth,” she says. “It is a bad idea to make […]
These are the sneaky new ways that Android apps are tracking you
This study and another presented Thursday—’Panoptispy: Characterizing Audio and Video Exfltration from Android Applications,’ by Elleen Pan of Northeastern University with Jingjing Ren, Martina Lindorfer, Christo Wilson, and David Choffnes—did not, however, report evidence that Facebook’s apps were exploiting any loopholes to surreptitiously listen to ambient real-world audio.
Born to lead: Memoir of a bossy girl
Time and again they have shown that women leaders are more likely to receive critical feedback than men in leadership roles, and the women who lead are more often described as being abrasive and aggressive vs. the men who are referred to as brilliant and knowledgeable. One such study utilized an interactive chart developed by […]
‘More guns in fewer hands’: US study charts rise of hardcore super owners
Americans own an estimated 265m guns, more than one gun for every American adult, according to the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades. But the new survey estimates that 130m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults – a group of super-owners who have […]
Scientific American
‘Living Shorelines’ Will Get Fast Track to Combat Sea Level Rise
As sea levels rise along U.S. coasts, it may soon get easier for people and local governments to obtain federal permits to build what are known as “living shorelines,” natural or nature-based structures designed to protect communities and infrastructure from extreme storms and flooding even as they protect habitat. The Army Corps of Engineers is […]
Does Fox’s ‘Empire’ break or bolster black stereotypes?
Carole Bell, an assistant professor at Northeastern University who studies media, politics and identity, said many of the new shows on network television that feature nonwhite characters — including ABC’s Black-ish and Asian American-centered Fresh Off the Boat — begin with more stereotypical characterizations that have broadened as the shows progress. “I don’t think Cookie […]
Pacific Standard
Fast food companies are breaking their own pledges about how they advertise to kids
Have McDonald’s and Burger King lived up to their promise? Not at all, argues a new study, published last week in the journal PLoS One. A team of researchers from Dartmouth University’s medical school and Northeastern University’s law school analyzed Burger King and McDonald’s TV ads that aired over a year between 2009 and 2010. […]
Salon
Men are brilliant, women are bossy: What research tells us about unconscious bias, gender and “genius”
Whether you think your professor is an eccentric genius or a disorganized mess might depend on his or her gender, according to data mapped by a history professor at Northeastern University. You can plug words like “rude” or “brilliant” into an interactive chart created by Benjamin Schmidt and see how often those words were used […]
The Christian Science Monitor
California moves to limit school football injuries. But is the sport fixable?
Youth participation in football is down, however, notes Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University in Boston. If professional football wants to have the kind of robust network of young players funneling up through the various levels that it has traditionally relied upon, he notes, […]