In the epic quest to outsmart traffic congestion in Boston, commuters have any number of high-tech weapons at hand: Google Maps, which uses GPS to provide real-time traffic data, apps such as Waze and Inrix that track users’ cellphones to analyze travel speed, and websites that feature live video feeds from major highways. Or, you […]

Barbour told the Daily Item that the killings occurred over the past six years in Alaska, Texas, North Carolina and California. That’s sent investigators in those states back to their cold-case files, but it’s also raising questions among people who study serial killers. “Anything is possible, and of course it’s conceivable that she’s a serial […]

All Revved Up! Revs. Emmett Price and Irene Monroe joined Jim and Margery for their regular Monday segment. Price is an associate professor of music at Northeastern University, and Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist who blogs for the Huffington Post. They talked about ways to create more lasting effects from Black History Month. {Audio}

About a third of Bostonians are between the ages of 20 and 34. The city is home to the largest percentage of millennials in the country. “What we need to really do is have an effort to build housing for this particular population in the same way that we went ahead and built that housing […]

Mentorship is a huge part of professional success in higher education. If nothing else, having a solid mentor helps higher education professionals to develop valuable contacts and integrate themselves into their employer institution. Finding a mentor, though, can be a tricky thing. Some people are naturally good at formulating mentor-mentee relationships. Others simply don’t know […]

Criminologist Jack Levin says Miranda Barbour’s claims of being a serial killer is highly unlikely to be true. [VIDEO]

It sounds like a picture straight out of the Jetsons: A bicycle that communicates with its rider, sends messages to surrounding drivers, and can serve as a black box in the unfortunate event of a collision. But for four mechanical engineering students at Northeastern University, that future isn’t too far away. They’ve created a “smart […]

The idea of photos, messages and text going viral is a very modern one indeed. Or is it? Northeastern University’s Ryan Cordell has been digging around in old American newspapers and he reckons the 1800s were alive with viral media. He talks about his research effort, called the Infectious Texts Project, how you track viral […]

Last week in Cophenhagen, the city’s zoo killed a 2-year-old giraffe named Marius with a bolt gun to prevent inbreeding. His body was dissected in front of schoolchildren, his remains then fed to hungry lions. Despite 27,000 people signing a petition to stop the killing, and an offer of a new home, the zoo would […]

Many of those with severe speech disorders use a computerized device to communicate. Yet they choose between only a few voice options. That’s why Stephen Hawking has an American accent, and why many people end up with the same voice, often to incongruous effect. Speech scientist Rupal Patel wanted to do something about this, and […]

Says Brook Baker, professor of law, Northeastern University, and senior policy analyst for Health Global Access Project, “The ITC investigation is intended to put pressure on India to reverse its pro-development industrial policies and to dismantle its carefully-crafted intellectual property regime that uses most of the flexibilities allowed under international law, most particularly the WTO TRIPS agreement.

How do you detect a person who enters a building through the exit? It may seem like a simple question, but for the Transportation Security Administration and airports across the country it’s a major security challenge. TSA security checkpoints are designed to ensure that only screened and ticketed passengers have been allowed to enter the […]