They have stayed persistently high, The Washington Post found. Attacks in which someone kills four or more relatives have risen this year from a 20-year low, with more incidents in the first half of 2026 than all of last year, according to data from Northeastern University.

The ground within a half mile of the new lanes ran almost 4 degrees hotter the year after Caltrans finished the first stretch — the biggest jump of any of 11 Northern California freeway projects that researchers at UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State and Northeastern University checked by satellite.

A new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Northeastern University found that top AI models are horrible at analyzing professional sports. 

“That’s when I felt, ‘Wow, this is the coolest thing maybe I’m ever going to do: live underwater,’” says Patterson, a marine biologist at Northeastern University who has spent a total of 89 days under the sea.

Researchers from the University of Washington, Stanford University and Northeastern University worked with 1,256 participants on X during the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign. They found that reducing users’ exposure to posts expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity improved their feelings toward the opposing party by about two points on a 100-point scale.    

“DOGE, like many other federal agencies under the Trump administration, uses extremely inflammatory language, frequently attacking perceived opponents,” Dr. Rebekah Tromble, professor and director of global partnerships at Northeastern University’s Institute for Information, the Internet & Democracy, told USA TODAY.

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, said the allegations against Platner could be enough to affect the outcome of the race.

“This research is far more significant than a discussion about meat discoloration or shelf life,” Darin Detweiler, a food safety policy expert and professor at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies, told Fox News Digital.

Chengfei He at Northeastern University in Boston and his colleagues found that rapid warming of the Arctic has reduced the temperature difference between the pole and the tropics, shifting the jet stream northwards into the cold blob region.

“It may not be so much about what Blanche has done already but more so about what he has said or signaled he would do in the future if confirmed,” Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.

Op-ed by Dan Kennedy, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University.

Article co-written by Debashish Ghose, a Visiting Assistant Professor at the D’Amore McKim School of Business at Northeastern University