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The Times UK

Dance for 20 minutes a day ‘to hit weekly exercise target’

The goal, Aston McCullough from Northeastern University said, was to find easier ways to keep active. “Dance is a really accessible form of physical activity that people can do, even in their homes,” he said, speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Boston.
The Telegraph

A 20-minute dance a day will keep NHS doctors at bay, US study finds

Scientists from Northeastern University, in Boston, Massachusetts, recruited 48 participants aged 18 to 83 years old with a range of rhythmic experience and asked them to take part in five-minute bouts of dancing, Oxygen intake and heart rate were measured to determine intensity of the exercise 
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Waste surveillance at just 20 airports could spot the next pandemic

“If you’re going to the bathroom on an aircraft, and if you blow your nose and put that in the toilet – or if you do whatever you have to do – there’s some chance that some of the genetic material from the pathogen is going into the waste water,” says Guillaume St-Onge at Northeastern University in […]
Fox News

New bird flu strain detected in Nevada dairy worker, CDC says

Sam Scarpino, director of AI and life sciences and professor of health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, also expressed to Fox News Digital the severity of this new case.
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Psychotherapist: 10 phrases the most mentally strong people use every day

Article by Amy Morin is a psychotherapist, clinical social worker and instructor at Northeastern University.
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Why Dropping Eric Adams’ Case Is ‘Dangerous’

“There’s no doubt this action leaves Adams beholden to the Trump administration, and to [Trump] personally, who has significant interests in New York City,” Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
Fortune

Does Trump’s penny plan make cents? How ditching the hated coin would affect consumers

“It will be important to have rules in place regarding how cash transactions that are not divisible by 5 cents should be handled, most likely by rounding to the nearest 5 cents, and also regarding how existing stocks of pennies can be used and exchanged,” said Robert K. Triest, economics professor at Northeastern University.
Boston.com

Why some women are swearing off men

The election left a lot of women feeling “like they’re under attack,” according to Suzanna Danuta Walters, director of Northeastern’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program.
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Chicago Housing Development Shrinks Itself by 80% in Face of Trump Tariffs

While some jobs in the domestic sand or cement industries may be saved, others will be shed due to higher construction costs, Peter Simon, an economics professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
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Trump promised no new pennies — here’s how that would work

Robert Triest, an economics professor at Northeastern University, expects the United States to follow the lead of Canada — where pennies quietly disappeared after 2013.
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White House says it’s the judges — not Trump — causing a ‘constitutional crisis’

“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,” said Jeremy Paul, a law professor at Northeastern University. Trump is far from the only president to have his agenda slowed by the courts.
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Harpswell’s iconic Cribstone Bridge inspires Roux Institute’s Alfond Center

Northeastern University’s Roux Insitute held a design contest for the Alfond Center on its new, $500 million Portland campus. The design needed to embody Maine, leading the CambridgeSeven architecture firm to the historic span between Orr’s and Bailey islands.