Micro units will likely be cool, with features such as convertible storage and bicycle wall mounts. What they’re less likely to be, regrettably, is affordable.

Iran has to be ready to listen to foreign experts that can offer valuable advice on how the country could stabilize its currency rate and lower inflation, but it should be ready to heed the councel, U.S. Northeastern University Professor Kamran Dadkhah told Trend.

You hear a lot these days about the national epidemic of painkiller overdoses. What you don’t hear so much about is what you can do to respond to those overdoses when they happen, much as we learn about CPR or defibrillators for heart attacks. In an opinion piece just out in the Journal of the […]

Is gun violence inevitably a pervasive fact of life in urban neighborhoods of 21st century America? Or can the staggeringly high murder rates — and the ongoing trauma that results — be diminished or eliminated? With over 60 years of combined experience working on city streets, Edward Powell, Jon Feinman and Edward Davis offer their […]

Just months after the MBTA raised fares, the T faces a $130 million deficit for the next budget year, according to an analysis released Monday by a regional think tank. But that daunting financial gap is eclipsed by a $240 million shortfall to operate the highway system, the study concluded. The budget analysis, conducted by […]

At a school with over 16,000 undergraduates like Northeastern, cross-pollination between departments and organizations isn’t easy to enforce. “Design students keep to design students, business students to business students,” says Ryan Johnson, who’s been working with Bret Siarkowski to develop a solution: VentureCrowd.

An analysis by a regional think tank says the state’s highway system faces a $240 million operating shortfall for the next fiscal year, while the MBTA is facing a $130 million deficit. The budget analysis released Monday by the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University does not include money to address […]

Research confirms that gratitude for past assistance increases the odds that we’ll return the favor and help a benefactor in need.

Op-ed by President Joseph E. Aoun: As President Obama develops his second-term agenda, his administration will no doubt focus on a range of higher-education priorities, including affordability, attainment levels, and career preparation. Yet as important as these issues are, something more fundamental is happening: We’re witnessing the end of higher education as we know it.

As longtime bookies know all too well, I have occasionally been derelict in my duties as your literary cruise director here at #1book140. No, no, you doth protest too much. It’s true, it’s true. And the plain truth is that I can no longer manage our burgeoning book club all on my own. Luckily, the […]

In a city built and defined by its miles of red-brick mills, call this a mill for the 21st – and 22nd – centuries: the new Mass. Green High Performance Computing Center. The $95 million Bigelow Street facility promises to become a “knowledge mill” where researchers from Boston University, the University of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts […]

The case of Stephanie Bongiovi makes the argument for broader Good Samaritan laws and the wider use of the overdose antidote naloxone. In the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), researchers call for wider adoption of Good Samaritan laws and federal action to facilitate the distribution of naloxone to treat […]