A variety of vehicles, where and when they need them, and at affordable rates — that’s the bottom-line for car-sharing customers, according to independent research conducted by Northeastern University’s Fleura Bardhi and Suffolk University’s Giana M. Eckhardt: “Access Based Consumption: The Case for Car Sharing.” According to ScienceDaily.com, the researchers discovered that their “study challenges […]

The charred sites began appearing across Southeastern Massachusetts in late September, a growing cluster of at least 16 suspicious fires from Quincy to Sandwich that is feared to be the destructive work of a serial arsonist. The latest fire, ruled an ­arson, happened late Monday night in a vacant outbuilding at the old Raynham dog […]

For Hugh Courtney, dean of Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business, his arrival couldn’t have been better timed. Courtney began his tenure as the dean July 1, two months later the business school received a $60 million gift from alumni Richard D’Amore and Alan McKim to rename the business school from the College of Business […]

The murder/suicide committed on Saturday by Kansas City Chiefs football player Jovan Belcher left the National Football League, its fans and health professionals struggling to understand what drove him to do it. Dan Lebowitz, executive director of Sport in Society at Northeastern University, said he saw the Belcher tragedy as something that speaks to societal […]

The failure of Rupert Murdoch’s pioneering iPad newspaper The Daily underscores the problems of the news industry as it seeks a paid model for the digital age, analysts said. Murdoch announced Monday that The Daily, launched as a paid subscription for the Apple tablet, would be shuttered December 15 due to a lack of readers. […]

I MET with students at Northeastern University recently, and they were gung-ho about going to work on climate change: They’d gone way past their old focus on recycling to start demanding that the college divest its holdings in fossil fuel companies. They were nerving themselves up for a real fight; it was fun to see. […]

Colleges and universities across the country are investing in building efficiency and renewable energy to save money and the environment. Living on Earth’s Bobby Bascomb reports from Boston’s Northeastern University that small changes can add up to big savings.

A plate of an American flamingo from John James Audubon’s “The Birds of America”; a Johannes Ruysch map, the first obtainable one to depict America; and a watercolor of New York at night by artist Rudolf Daniel Ludwig Cronau are just some of the many items that will be on auction this Wednesday at the […]

Photos of athletes in their moment of victory or defeat usually show faces contorted with intense emotion. But a new study suggests that people actually don’t use those kinds of extreme facial expressions to judge how a person is feeling. Instead, surprisingly, people rely on body cues.

An invasive Asian seaweed that likely was brought to the New England coast from Europe has spread across more than 400 miles (645 km) of Atlantic coastline since it was first discovered in U.S. waters off Rhode Island in 2009, biologists say. The Red Asian seaweed is creating problems for the fishing industry as it […]

I’ve written a lot over the past few months about how inexpensive and large-scale online college programs, such as EdX, are dramatically changing the face of higher education, and how universities that focus on offering students practical skills, such as entrepreneurship, are the most important institutions in today’s job-starved world. Programs that are cheap, accessible, […]

In a country where 11 million people live without papers, cutting 50,000 more visas without improving legal immigration flows will do nothing to fix the greater system, according to Rachel Rosenbloom, an associate professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law. “We have millions of people in this country who have been here for […]