“Between this moment … and the election, it’s hard to imagine a big piece of legislation making its way through Congress,” said Michael Bennett, responsible AI lead at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University.

Jill Abramson was a senior lecturer at in the Harvard English Department from 2014 to 2023 and was former executive editor of The New York Times from 2011 to 2014. She currently teaches at Northeastern University’s School of Journalism.

“Universal Music Group is literally the largest record label … in the history of the music industry,” said Andrew Mall, an associate professor of music at Northeastern University. An “uncountable number of tracks and sounds” would be impacted on TikTok, he added, significantly limiting options for creators.

“We are consuming more calories, but they are less dense in terms of micronutrients,” said Menichetti, who is also an affiliated faculty member at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University.

“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