A RECORD-BREAKING cold front moved through the country last week, and here’s one surprising consequence of the ultra-low temperatures some regions experienced: It’s nearly impossible under those conditions to make a snowball. In a post on the “physics of a snowball” on Northeastern University’s research blog, J. Murray Gibson, dean of the university’s College of Science, explained that […]

Visualizing History The task of making historical subjects appealing to today’s students is far from easy. However, according to technology blog i09, one professor has leveraged modern technology to accomplish just that. Ben Schmidt, an associate professor of history at Northeastern University, used publicly available data sets originally compiled by 19th Century oceanographer Lt. Matthew Fontaine Maury […]

“The first time I walked into the house, I saw Callen and Gusty playing sports, and they reminded me of when I was a kid with my brothers and sister,” says Coyne, who grew up in Palos Heights, Illinois, and will resume her college career at Northeastern University in the fall. “We were always playing […]

Six weeks of lectures, computer classes, college campus, field trips, and lab work in the middle of a summer vacation. Sound like the way most juniors in high school spend their summer? Well, that’s the way twenty-five high school juniors and sophomores (and I) spent summer vacation. The program is called Northeastern University’s Young Scholars […]

Midday on January 11, 2014, Arbitrator Federic Horowitz issued his expected decision upholding the suspension of Alex Rodriquez under the terms of the agreement reached by Major League Baseball and reducing its duration from 211 games to 162 games, sidelining A-Rod for the 2014 season. Within minutes, Mr. Rodriquez issued his response attacking the result. […]

Midday on January 11, 2014, Arbitrator Federic Horowitz issued his expected decision upholding the suspension of Alex Rodriquez under the terms of the agreement reached by Major League Baseball and reducing its duration from 211 games to 162 games, sidelining A-Rod for the 2014 season. Within minutes, Mr. Rodriquez issued his response attacking the result. […]

A recent paper by six analysts from Northeastern University published on PLOS Onesifts through a sample of 380 million tweets between October 2010 and May 2012 to identify a number of geographic and linguistic trends. The tweets—which were restricted to tweets sent by smartphones including GPS location data—came from more than 6 million users in 191 countries. … […]

Here’s just one of many examples from an experiment at Northeastern University: Subjects were told they should flip a coin to see who should do certain tasks. One task is long and laborious; the other is short and fun. The participant flips the coin in private (though secretly watched by video cameras), said David DeSteno, […]

riminologists said that upticks in Pomona and Riverside County are hard to explain, but that it is far too early to declare any major trends. In smaller communities, localized issues such as gang disputes and reduced police patrols can result in more homicides. Often it can take time for police to create strategies that bring […]

In Cleveland, for example, University Hospitals “Vision 2010” initiative drove 92 percent of a $1.2 billion construction and procurement effort into the local and regional economy (at the height of the 2008-09 recession), with important and enduring benefits for more than 100 local minority- and female-owned businesses. In Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania has systematically […]

Northeastern University has created a new department of bioengineering within its College of Engineering school, the Boston-based university announced this week. The new department will fold in theEngineering School’s existing doctoral program in bioengineering and will develop new bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in the field. Students also will be eligible for co-op opportunities. The department will […]

Most of us lock our doors every night. We stash our valuables out of sight and keep our savings in a bank. But in this increasingly digital world, it’s getting harder to protect the things we value most, including our privacy. In the past few weeks alone, Target customers became the target of a credit […]