“The court is trying to get out of the business of construing the Texas abortion statute, but by doing so, it simply leaves the statute in place to continue deterring doctors from taking a risk that might end their practice,” Northeastern University law professor Martha Davis tells Vox.

One might think people would be less trustful of advice that comes from a machine, but as Kathleen Creel, a professor who studies both philosophy and computer science at Northeastern University, explained to me, spirituality’s extremely subjective nature can make AI’s shortcomings and mistakes harder to identify. 

Now, the omnipresent industry has become a target for Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University famous for developing the legal strategy against Big Tobacco that ultimately led to a historic $206 billion settlement.  

The $1,000 bonus at the heart of the lawsuit, filed in Middlesex Superior Court Friday by the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University, had fine print that revealed it would only be paid out if customers made an initial deposit of $5,000 and gambled $25,000 within 90 days on bets with odds of -300 […]

Dr Darin Detwiler, a food safety expert at Northeastern University in Boston and former FDA and USDA food safety advisor, told DailyMail.com that ‘cantaloupe should never be kept for an extra day in the fridge because pathogens like salmonella and listeria grow quickly.

Toyoko Orimoto, a physicist at Northeastern University, found these recommendations ambitious and exciting. “The next 10 years are going to be a very thrilling time for particle physics,” she said.

Wolfel now works as associated vice president of entrepreneurship and venture creation for Northeastern’s Roux Institute, which launched in Portland in 2020.

The typical person makes around 35,000 choices each day, according to research in the Journal of Health Psychology. Though you may not even realize you’re making all these decisions, especially ones to do with daily life, it’s very normal to get bogged down by the sheer volume. This can lead to decision paralysis, says Lace Padilla, […]

It was the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history and the deadliest in the U.S. this year, according to a database maintained by USA Today in partnership with The Associated Press and Northeastern University. After a three-day manhunt, Card was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Now, a leader of the lawsuits against Big Tobacco has shifted his attention to online betting, targeting the offerings of local firm DraftKings. Northeastern law professor Richard Daynard, who helped uncover evidence in the 1980s that tobacco companies knew about the cancer risks of smoking, said he sees online gambling as another looming crisis for society.

The Romeoville family’s death marked the 35th mass killing in the U.S. this year, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. Since then, there have been a total of 42 mass killings in the U.S., it shows.

“People like Dr. Dre and Grandmaster Flash, they’ll talk about their mom’s, dad’s, uncle’s, aunt’s record collections, that they sometimes were forbidden to touch, but they did anyway,” said Murray Forman, a media and screen studies professor at Northeastern University and the author of “The ‘Hood Comes First: Race, Space and Place in Rap and […]