Heavy social media use correlates to higher irritability, according to a study from Northeastern.

“ It’s reality TV, but it’s not,” said Steve Granelli, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston who analyzes pop culture. “ There is something very pure about this — about this live stream and about these types of live streams.”

“All music contains modulation to some degree, but it isn’t controlled to impact brainwaves systematically,” Psyche Loui, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Creativity and Creative Practice and Director of the Music, Imaging, and Neural Dynamics Laboratory (MIND Lab) at Northeastern University, told ADDitude.

Two months later, Trump’s approval ratings did not show a major shift from the beginning of his term or compared with his first term, according to Costas Panagopoulos, head of political science at Northeastern University.

“Under our system, up until now, it’s always been understood that it’s the courts that decide whether executive authority is legitimate or not,” Jeremy Paul, a law professor at Northeastern University, told The Associated Press news agency.

Now, a team of Northeastern researchers say this tool could help detect the next pandemic if we start regularly testing wastewater from airplanes at a handful of airports around the globe.

On a warm Friday night, the Northeastern University law professor stood in the dark threshold of Banners Kitchen & Tap wearing sporty oxfords, khakis, a pastel-peach shirt, and—most conspicuously—a sweater looped around his neck.

By limiting resources, the cutbacks pare back work meant to prevent problems and to focus efforts on cases in which someone was already hurt or killed, Darin Detwiler, a food safety consultant and associate professor at Northeastern University, said. 

“Phthalates are known for being a reproductive toxin,” Julia Varshavsky, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor of public health and health sciences at Northeastern University.

In some parts of the state, regional vocational high schools have become the preferred choice of the most academically advanced students. That has created what a 2016 report from Northeastern University called the “peculiar paradox” of Massachusetts voc-tech schools.

A Northeastern University study of cellphone data found that when COVID hit, inhabitants of Greater Boston became far less likely to interact with people of different socioeconomic backgrounds. 

Northeastern University law professor Daniel Urman said the rare step of issuing a public statement “shows that there is a line for Chief Justice Roberts, and President Trump crossed it by calling for the judge’s impeachments.”