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Critics say ‘talk to your doc’ requirement for some vaccines causes confusion

Wendy Parmet studies health care policy at Northeastern University and joins NPR’s All Things Considered.
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Octopuses can become invisible. And now scientists are discovering their secrets.

How cephalopods achieve this instant camouflage is a mystery that has fascinated humans since at least 350 B.C., when Aristotle made observations on the subject, says Leila Deravi, an associate professor at Northeastern University whose  BioMaterials Design Group specializes in biomimicry.
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38% of people become emotionally closed off during unemployment: It can ‘really compound those feelings of shame,’ expert says

In the U.S., “work is the single most important way of proving your worth” as a person, Steven Vallas, professor emeritus of sociology at Northeastern University, previously told CNBC.
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Why are the feds blocking a state probe of the ICE killing of Renee Good?

Op-ed by Deborah Ramirez, the co-director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race at Northeastern University School of Law.

Local Study asks what it will take to get more Boston commuters to take the bus

Northeastern University PhD candidate Nail Bashan believes public transit is the best thing we can have in our cities. Bashan’s research focuses on urban mobility and the urban experience. 
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How the US Is Abandoning Joint Climate Action Under Trump

European nations, Japan, South Korea and China are likely to try to fill the diplomatic vacuum. China, in particular, will have the authority to lead, said Maria Ivanova, the director of Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs.
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Northeastern’s new nursing program ’embedded’ in Fall River community

When top-ranked college Northeastern University unveiled plans to open a small campus on the fifth floor of 277 Pleasant St., part of the Durfee-Union Mills complex — already home to Prima CARE medical center and Saint Anne’s Hospital outpatient services — it did so with a commitment to being an integral part of the Fall River community
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The Flu Really Is That Bad

Flu seasons, as a rule, differ drastically from one another, and “we don’t have a great understanding of why one ends up being more severe than another,” Samuel Scarpino, an infectious-disease-modeling researcher at Northeastern University, told me.
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Trump governs like a king, and the press is struggling on how to cover him

Jill Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times, teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.
The Week

Giving up the booze

After those years of excess, it’s understandable that many people wanted to get sober or curb their drinking, said Malcolm Purinton, a beer historian at Northeastern University. 
The Times UK

Was it legal for US to strike Venezuela and capture Maduro?

Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law expert at Northeastern University, said: “You cannot say this was a law enforcement operation and then turn around and say now we need to run the country.”
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How string theory was used to solve a long-standing mystery about the brain

Researchers at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute have returned to this long-standing mystery today. In a new article published in Nature , they demonstrate how the same mathematics used for string theory could also be used to solve the question of why neurons branch and connect the way they do.