At the Usenix Security Symposium earlier this week, researchers from UC San Diego and Northeastern University revealed a technique that would allow anyone with a few hundred dollars of hardware to hack Shimano wireless gear-shifting systems of the kind used by many of the top cycling teams in the world, including in recent events like […]

Laurie Kramer, a professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University, says that conversations about move-in day should begin during a child’s senior year high of school. 

With companies starting to market alkalinity enhancement as a climate solution, there’s an urgent need for such research from independent, respected scientific organizations such as WHOI, says Cristina Schultz, on oceanographer at Northeastern University who wrote to EPA endorsing the project. “I think if anyone can do it, they can do it,” she says.

Wireless gear-shift systems are meant to give riders better control of their bikes, according to the University of California San Diego, whose researchers collaborated with those from Northeastern University on the study. 

 It was “a place that was all Jews that you could hang around with, and have tons of activities, and you wound up knowing people and having friends,” says Phil Brown, head of the Catskills Institute and a sociology and health sciences professor at Northeastern University.

The hacks don’t bode well for the coming months in the lead-up to the election, and point to foreign online influence on the electoral process becoming a major threat. These influences may have unexpectedly significant effects, Ryan Ellis, an assistant professor at Northeastern University who researches communication law and policy, infrastructure politics and cybersecurity, said in […]

“There are examples like that in many communities where … keeping the EMS service alive is a challenge unto itself, and much less keeping the people who work in it skilled enough,” said Dr. Katherine Simmonds, the Associate Director of Health Programs and a clinical professor at Northeastern University’s Roux Institute.

“We found chemicals in everyday soaps, lotions, makeup, sunscreen and other personal care products and consumer products [that] increased risk of hypertension” among a study group of pregnant women in Puerto Rico, said study lead researcher Julia Varshavsky. She’s an assistant professor of health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston.

Northeastern University criminal justice professor Eric Piza has conducted one of the most comprehensive studies of ShotSpotter, looking at 15 years of data on its use in Kansas City and Chicago. 

“It’s difficult to do financial planning when you’re not sure about the rate at which prices are going to be increasing in the future,” says Robert Triest, Professor of Economics at Northeastern University. 

The researchers even say that it would be possible to read the shifting signals from an entire peloton of cyclists and then jam everyone except a chosen rider. “You can basically jam everyone except you,” says Northeastern professor Aanjhan Ranganathan, another author of the paper.

“News organizations should proceed with caution when dealing with hacked documents. As long as they’re verified and newsworthy, then they’re fair game, but motive is an important part of the story, too,” Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, told CNN.