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.
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.”
NBC News 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.
Health 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.
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.
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.)
‘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”
‘We really never came back to each other’: Five years after COVID, we’re more divided than ever And Esteban Moro, a professor at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute in Boston who studies foot-traffic data, finds that people of all sorts are far less likely to leave their neighborhoods and interact with people of different income or demographic types than they were before the pandemic.
New Scientist The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly strange Kin Chung Fong at Northeastern University in Massachusetts was stunned when another physicist, Abhishek Banerjee at Harvard University, told him a number over dinner.
The Saturday Evening Post How Midcentury Women’s Magazines Fought Cancer Northeastern University student Elsa O’Donnell contributed archival research for this article.
TechCrunch These researchers used NPR Sunday Puzzle questions to benchmark AI ‘reasoning’ models “We wanted to develop a benchmark with problems that humans can understand with only general knowledge,” Arjun Guha, a computer science faculty member at Northeastern and one of the co-authors on the study, told TechCrunch.
