Move over, Parrot AR.Drone; there’s a new (prototype) quadrocopter in town. For their senior project, electrical engineering students at Northeastern Universitydeveloped TRAQ, an autonomous aircraft that tracks down the sources of radio transmissions. That functionality comes thanks to a four-element antenna array, and the team envisions such a device being used in disaster, rescue and surveillance situations, […]

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has brought two separate lawsuits against two major companies: discount retailer Dollar General and car-maker BMW. The E.E.O.C. alleges that these companies used criminal background checks to screen out workers who have a criminal record of any kind. The suits were brought under the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination […]

Investors initially pushed the stock up by focusing on the bright side of the ruling. The Supreme Court said Myriad does have the legal right to patent forms of human’s genetic code that can be predictive of who might contract breast or ovarian cancer, says Michael Bennett, professor of law at Northeastern University. Investors may […]

By day, 21-year-old Matt Shultis is a mild-mannered architecture major at Northeastern University. But when the NU Huskies take the field, court or ice, he transforms into Paws, the Husky: six-and-half feet of fur, gyrations, pep and pacifism.  

The Memphis Grizzlies recently announced that they weren’t renewing the contract of Lionel Hollins, the most successful coach in history, due to “philosophical differences.” Do black coaches still have a harder time than their white counterparts? Hosted by: Marc Lamont Hill Guests: Dan Lebowitz (Boston, MA) Executive Director of Sport in Society Paul Shirley @paulthenshirley (Los Angeles, CA) Former NBA […]

Northeastern University law professor Roger Abrams calls the decision “extraordinary.” It means the good news for young people is that if you are lucky enough to get an internship, now you are also likely to get paid. But businesses might decide that interns are not worth the expense. “I think it may have a negative […]

“The work really highlights that mammals don’t completely lack the ability to regenerate—it’s just that the correct developmental signaling is not turned on,” said James Monaghan, a regeneration biologist at Northeastern University who was not involved with the study. “It shows for first time how similar mammalian digit regeneration is to amphibian limb regeneration.”  

‘Really striking’ “It’s a fantastic paper,” says James Monaghan, a regeneration biologist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. “It’s really striking that the cellular mechanisms and signalling pathways, like Wnt and FGF, all seem to be the same as those in salamanders.” It seems likely that these mechanisms will also apply to humans and other […]

Vapour–liquid–solid route and its variants are routinely used for scalable synthesis of semiconducting nanowires, yet the fundamental growth processes remain unknown. Here we employ atomic-scale computations based on model potentials to study the stability and growth of gold-catalysed silicon nanowires. Equilibrium studies uncover segregation at the solid-like surface of the catalyst particle, a liquid AuSi droplet, and a silicon-rich droplet–nanowire interface […]

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Rep. John Tierney (D-Salem) yesterday touted their bill to prevent the federal student loan interest rate from doubling next month and let students, for one year, pay the lower rate major banks do — though experts say the proposal would have no effect on the economy or the soaring […]

Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at the Northeastern University School of Law, said such a finding could have a far-reaching effect on future lawsuits. “This is huge,” Gottlieb said. “This really makes Massachusetts the most attractive state at this point and time to represent past victims of the tobacco industry […]

US Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative John Tierney rallied Northeastern University students Monday to speak out against a looming interest rate hike on student loans. If Congress fails to act by July 1, the rate on federally subsidized Stafford loans, need-based funds for undergraduates, would double from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. With debate over student […]