The reality of the 2010 poverty data shows that Millennials are among the most highly affected—in the short term and long term—by public policy’s failure to protect America’s future generations. Data shows that the unemployment rate for people between the ages of 16 and 24 was an astonishing 18.4 percent in 2010. The number of […]

Millions of dollars may be being misspent on threat-detection methods that rely on facial expression recognition, according to a report this month by a noted Canadian researcher.

The Taliban have been forced out of power, Osama bin Laden is dead, and al Qaeda, by many accounts, is not nearly as powerful as it once was.

Looking to improve access for its global student body, Northeastern University College of Business Administration was willing to undergo the hardships of being a beta partner to get the mobile-optimized site it wanted.

A psychologist of Northeastern University and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard School of Medicine, Lisa Feldman Barrett, notified: “Humans are exquisitely sensitive to context, and that can vary dramatically shape what is seen in a face”.

Corporate America is on a hiring binge for people to manage a company’s presence on Facebook, Twitter and similar sites. Once given such titles as social media wizards, ninjas and divas, they take their jobs seriously and are gaining more respect.

Twitter is an excellent tool for sharing news, keeping up with friends, and a quick laugh, but the platform is also apparently an excellent subject for mood and behavioral studies.

We’€™re in the worst economy since the Great Depression -€“ with lower-income families and kids are bearing the worst of it -€“ and what are Republicans doing? Cutting programs Americans desperately need to get through it.

The latest data shows unemployment in Massachusetts is on its way up.

In a close-up headshot, Serena Williams’€™ eyes are pressed tensely closed; her mouth is wide open, teeth bared. Her face looks enraged. Now zoom out: The tennis star is on the court, racket in hand, fist clenched in victory. She’€™s not angry.

When Virginia’s magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit last August, the first Twitter reports sent from people at the epicenter began almost instantly at 1:51 p.m. €”and reached New York about 40 seconds ahead of the quake’s first shock waves, according to calculations by the social media company SocialFlow. The flood of messages peaked at 5,500 tweets […]

You don’t have to be a science major to know that heat rises: Just step into an attic on a hot summer day. But what you might not know is that this basic scientific reality could also help create clean energy for entire cities.