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Yes, Inflation Is Going Down. But Here’s Why Prices Aren’t

“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. 
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Want to Win a Bike Race? Hack Your Rival’s Wireless Shifters

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.
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News outlets were sent leaked Trump campaign files. They chose not to publish them

“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.
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London security ramps up ahead of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, safety experts weigh in

“If you go through security — you’ve been vetted, you’ve been inspected, you’ve been sensed — and generally you’re in a secure area making you a hard target,” says Carey Rapport, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University and expert in event security checkpoints.
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Five ways science is tackling the antibiotic resistance crisis

“We have to run in order to stay in place,” says Kim Lewis, a microbiologist at Northeastern University in Boston.
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Why Donald Trump Debating Kamala Harris on Fox News Could Backfire

Alan Schroeder, a professor emeritus at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, argued that a Harris-Trump debate on Fox News seems implausible because of the network’s alignment with the Republican Party.
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Republican Attacks on Tim Walz Don’t Appear to Be Working

“Voters can often see right through flaccid attempts to attack political opponents,” Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
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Misleading TikTok alerts include false Taylor Swift claim and old tsunami warning

“Notifications have this additional stamp of authority,” said Laura Edelson, a researcher at Northeastern University, in Boston. “When you get a notification about something, it’s often assumed to be something that has been curated by the platform and not just a random thing from your feed.”
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Here’s the real reason Ozempic-like weight-loss drugs are so popular

Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute indicates that 73% of the U.S. food supply is ultra-processed. Getting consumers to change their behavior is a tall order. Many are confused, misguided, or indifferent about eating healthier.
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Group explores ambulance vessels as part of solution to island care crisis

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.
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Kamala Harris Winning Over White Voters From Trump, Polling Suggests

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that polls “suggest Harris is outperforming Biden nationally against Trump, and the boost is apparent across the board among most subgroups of voters including whites.
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Who needs a government ban? TikTok users are already defending themselves

Rachel Rodgers is a professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University who researches the intersection of social media, body image, and eating disorders. She said she doesn’t use any form of social media because of the potential detrimental impact it can have on mental health.