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12 Most Valuable Pennies in Circulation As Trump Stops Production

Robert K. Triest, professor of economics at Northeastern University, recently told Northeastern Global News:”It’s expensive to mint coins, and it’s also expensive for businesses to process small coins.”
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Trump Orders Halt on ‘Wasteful’ Pennies After DOGE Highlighted Cost

Robert K. Triest, an economics professor at Northeastern University, previously told the Associated Press: “The process of discontinuing the penny in the U.S. is a little unclear. It would likely require an act of Congress, but the Secretary of the Treasury might be able to simply stop the minting of new pennies.”
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How cosmic stasis may drastically rewrite the history of the universe

Already, others are beginning to explore the new paradigm of cosmic stasis. In August 2024, James Halverson and Sneh Pandya at Northeastern University in Massachusetts found that cosmic stasis arises from decaying towers of axions within models of string theory known as the axiverse.
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In Trump’s actions, opponents see more than cuts — they see a constitutional crisis

Dan Urman, a law professor at Northeastern University, said a constitutional crisis is defined as a clash between two powers that cannot be resolved within the system. In Trump’s case, the courts have not fully weighed in — and when they have, it has often been against the president — so we have not yet […]

Stream Near Buenos Aires Turns Red, ‘Like a River Covered in Blood’

Moira Zellner, a professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University, who grew up in Buenos Aires and worked as an environmental consultant on river and land remediation projects there in the 1990s, blamed “chronic lack of regulation and lack of enforcement” for the region’s pollution problems.
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How big tech’s ad systems helped fund child abuse online

However, Google’s dominance over the ad industry means it should share an outsized proportion of the blame, says Laura Edelson, a computer science professor who studies the digital economy at Northeastern University in the US.

Transgender Americans Challenge Trump’s Passport Policy in Court

“Gender-bending fashion made it harder for border officials to identify someone as male or female,” said Craig Robertson, a professor of communication studies at Northeastern University who wrote a book about the history of the American passport. “I sometimes joke David Bowie caused M/F sex markers to be added to the passport.”
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Legal experts warn of ‘constitutional crisis’ as JD Vance and Elon Musk question judges’ authority over Trump

“The bottom line is that our system is predicated on good faith but also the rule of law in America means that the government abides by court rulings,” Dan Urman, a law professor at Northeastern University, told NBC News.
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Scientists Say They’ve Discovered How to Cook the Perfect Boiled Egg—and It May Be Healthier, Too

“Excessive heat can also trigger oxidation, reducing the bioavailability of these compounds,” Darin Detwiler, LPD, author of the book “Food Safety: Past, Present, and Predictions” and a professor at Northeastern University, told Health. 
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With Super Bowl, America places its bets

The boom in sports gambling has been linked with a host of problems. Sports-betting firms have designed their offerings to foster gambling addiction, according to Richard Daynard, president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University’s law school. 
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Boston’s reparations task force has faced hurdles two years in. The Trump era could present another barrier.

Attendees also heard a presentation from a team of Tufts University and Royall House and Slave Quarters researchers, one of two research teams tapped by the task force to study the slavery’s long lasting legacy in Boston. (Northeastern University, the other research team, presented findings in December.)
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‘Drawing the Italian Renaissance’ Review: Splendor in Sketches

Ms. Brothers is a professor at Northeastern University and the author of “Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome”