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Big Pharma poured billions into AI drug discovery. It could soon pay off

“We are really seeing AI being used across the board now,” said Samuel Scarpino, director of AI + life sciences at Northeastern University and an advisor to many biotech startups. “I don’t think we can point to a clear winner yet… but it is definitely producing a lot of value,” he said.
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Was the US operation to arrest Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro legal?

“You can’t say it was a police operation and then claim that we now need to govern the country,” Jeremy Paul, a professor of constitutional law at Northeastern University in the United States, told Reuters. “It simply doesn’t make sense.”
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Legal concerns surround US capture of Venezuela’s Maduro

Jeremy Paul, an expert on constitutional law at Northeastern University in the US, said Rubio’s argument was “plausible,” but subsequent statements by the president about the US “running” Venezuela and its oil fields “completely undermined” that rationale.
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Is health care ready for impersonal AI to take over?

Annika Marie Schoene, a research scientist and assistant professor at Northeastern University who studies AI in healthcare, emphasizes that even when AI performs as intended, errors can occur, notes may be incomplete or systems may misinterpret information, requiring human oversight.
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U.S. capture of Maduro may be illegal; that probably won’t matter in court

Jeremy Paul, a law professor at Northeastern University, said the Trump administration had no legal authority to stage the military intervention, but he agreed that it probably would not derail Maduro’s prosecution.
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Was the US capture of Venezuela’s president legal?

“You cannot say this was a law enforcement operation and then turn around and say now we need to run the country,” said Jeremy Paul, a professor at Northeastern University specializing in constitutional law. “It just doesn’t make any sense.”

For 2026, There’s a Better Way to Be Hopeful

Op-ed by David DeSteno is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and the host of the podcast “How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality.”
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Pills, TikTok and weight-loss apps: the consumer-driven future of GLP-1s​

Similar to the marketing for erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, GLP-1 use will likely be increasingly touted as improving self-confidence, fitting in to desired clothes, and “living your best life,” said Koen Pauwels, marketing professor at Northeastern University.
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Racing against time: Inside a Nahant genome bank’s bid to save marine diversity before it’s lost

“It’s not difficult to do,” said Dan Distel, a marine biologist who serves as the director of Northeastern University’s Ocean Genome Legacy Center. “It’s not expensive to do. And of course, if we miss the opportunity, it’s too late.”
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How affirmations work – and why they are more than just positive thinking

Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett teaches psychology at Northeastern University and is one of the most influential voices in modern emotion research. Her central thesis : Feelings do not simply arise from situations. They are actively constructed by the brain – with the help of experience, expectation , and language.
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As flu cases surge, doctors say there’s more than one way to treat it

While flu vaccines usually have an efficacy rate of 40% to 60%, an early report from the U.K. estimates this “super flu” strain has an efficacy rate of 32% to 39% in adults, and 72% to 75% in children, Northeastern University associate clinical professor Brandon Dionne said. 
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Tropical pollinator populations could be reduced by half this century

Bhatia and co-authors at Northeastern University worry that pollinator declines are far more likely in India and most of Asia even under moderate warming. Tropical pollinator decline may accelerate through the 2040s, with the most severe impacts occurring after 2060.