“Their core mission is to generate as much money as they can from their recordings for their shareholders,” David Herlihy, a copyright lawyer and music industry professor at Northeastern University, told BI. TikTok’s ability to settle its dispute with UMG is critical for the company.

Laura Edelson, a computer-science professor at Northeastern University who studies misinformation and disinformation, told me. “It’s going to make this content easier to create, cheaper to create, and put more communities within the reach of it.”

A research group at Northeastern University in the US has used mice to demonstrate that the use of a component called protein crosslinking may slow the progression of the incurable neurological disease ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

In the new research, published in the journal PLOS Biology, a team led by Jeffrey Agar of Northeastern University investigated a way to target and stabilize an abundant enzyme that keeps cells safe from the toxic byproducts of consuming food and breathing oxygen.

Northeastern University is launching a climate and artificial intelligence startup incubator from its Roux institute in Portland, Maine. It will be the state’s first climate-focused incubator.

Adam Cooper, a teaching professor of linguistics at Northeastern University, held a discussion about the word “sus” in his history of English class in 2023, after inviting students to conduct mini-research projects on words of interest. Although Cooper wasn’t aware of “sus” at the time, he was struck by its familiarity to students.

“A generation ago, you didn’t have all these energy drinks,” so people didn’t grow up learning about safe caffeine consumption the way they may have done for alcohol, Darin Detwiler, a food-policy expert at Northeastern University, told me.

Nonetheless, it’s “a very significant finding from both a legal and political perspective,” Zinaida Miller, a Professor of Law at Northeastern University, tells TIME. She adds that it will most likely increase international pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to curb the ongoing Israel-Hamas war

A team from Northeastern University led by Prof. Margaret Burnham, a former judge who now heads the university’s Civil Rights and Restoration Justice Project, will be studying impacts of slavery and discrimination from 1940 to the present. 

“I actually think you could make the argument that measles is even more important to [detect] than covid or influenza or any of the other pathogens that we’re looking for,” says Samuel Scarpino, an epidemiologist at Northeastern University in Boston.

Twenty previously unknown works that were likely written by the prolific 19th century author Louisa May Alcott have been rediscovered thanks to some sleuthing by a sort of literary detective: Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University. 

A coalition from Northeastern University, led by Margaret Burnham, director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, and Deborah Jackson, managing director of the Center for Law, Equity and Race, will cover the years from 1940 to the present.