Bumped up against the week’s widespread outrage over football’s replacement referees, warm remembrances of the great NFL myth-maker Steve Sabol, who died Tuesday, didn’t stand a chance. Temporarily, at least, reaction to the zebra lockout has thoroughly overwhelmed the league’s preferred image of itself, so beautifully crafted in Sabol’s lyrical, heroic NFL Films depictions. Try […]

A new human-like robot developed and produced by a Boston company will likely find strong demand from U.S. manufacturers looking to automate repetitive tasks, according to some who follow the manufacturing sector in Massachusetts. “I’m sure (manufacturers) are going to want it,” said Barry Bluestone, director of Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional […]

The Massachusetts unemployment rate inched up to 6.3 percent in August, the second straight monthly increase. “It reflects a slowing economy,” said Northeastern University economist Alan Clayton-Matthews, who noted the financial problems in Europe in particular have hurt because the region accounts for 40 percent of Massachusetts’s exports.

A longtime resident of Windham and current student at Northeastern University has started a website built entirely around the concept of motivation. Sahil Maripuri, who has lived in town for virtually his whole life, recently began PromoteHustle.com.

Northeastern athletic director Peter Roby has been added to the NCAA’s Division I men’s basketball selection committee, filling a spot vacated when former Delaware AD Bernard Muir left for Stanford.

Dyslexia may be rooted in a problem the brain has in teasing out distinct sounds from the incoming garble, researchers say. Considered a learning disability, dyslexia makes it difficult to read and spell for the estimated 15 percent of Americans who have it. Although dyslexia causes reading problems, the disorder is often linked to subtle […]

Sure, you have the power to get your message out there–but what if it could be even stronger and more impactful? It can, and as I learned at this year’s annual Millennium Campus Conference, it’s not hard and it makes a huge difference.  

Criminologist Nicole Rafter has tallied 77 genocides that occurred around the world during the 20th century, many of them overlooked or forgotten, and she argues the number would be higher if a rigid legal definition was expanded.  

New research has argued that dyslexia may result from impairment of a different linguistic system than previously thought. Speech perception engages at least two linguistic systems: the phonetic system, which extracts discrete sound units from acoustic input, and the phonological system, which combines these units to form individual words. Previously, researchers generally believed that dyslexia […]

Tonight’s first televised debate in the Bay State’s U.S. Senate race may be between U.S. Sen. Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren — but GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney could be the one who steals the show, according to pundits and party operatives. “Mitt Romney is going to be looming large,” said Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern […]

Meet Nexi. How do you feel about Nexi? Would you loan Nexi money? It turns out, scientists can change that perception by making subtle cues to Nexi’s robotic face. A study from researchers at Northeastern University (to be published in the journal Psy­cho­log­ical Sci­ence) discovered that there are a distinct set of cues–including touching the […]

Northeastern University’s athletics director, Peter Roby, has been named to the NCAA Division I men’s basketball committee, the NCAA announced Wednesday.