By Max Abrahms, Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University.

If a user asks Google to decide whether a photo is of a cat or a dog, a less energy-intensive model that is 96 percent accurate, instead of 98 percent, might suffice, Devesh Tiwari, an engineer at Northeastern University, has shown. 

NovoBiotic Pharmaceuticals, founded by professors Kim Lewis and Slava Epstein from Northeastern University in Boston, has been tapping into that pool by collecting micro-organisms from soil samples, mimicking their natural environment in specially designed chambers, and so cultivating “domesticated” variants capable of growing in the lab.

And some people just like to be right, me included. “Who doesn’t want to be right? It feels so good,” says Heidi Kevoe-Feldman, associate professor of communication studies at Northeastern University.

“You really need a source of news and information for a community, because that’s how you keep up on what’s going on on local schools, the council, the select board,” said Dan Kennedy, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism, co-host of a podcast, “What Works: The Future of Local News, and co-author of “What Works in […]

“The only reason we noticed this particular botnet is that they were sloppy,” says Filippo Menczer, a professor at Indiana University Bloomington who carried out the research with Kai-Cheng Yang, a student who will join Northeastern University as a postdoctoral researcher for the coming academic year.

The Oklahoma City shooting was the country’s 33rd mass killing of 2023, in which four or more people were killed, not including the assailant, within a 24-hour period, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University as of Aug. 17.

Daniel Urman, a law professor at Northeastern University whose expertise includes the Supreme Court, is doubtful.