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Caltech’s new ‘Morphobot’ is a little transforming robot that can walk, drive, and fly

The M4 was designed by Mory Gharib, a professor of aeronautics and bioinspired engineering at Caltech, in partnership with Alireza Ramezani, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University. The
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How to Build a Career in Public Interest law

Renay Frankel, director for public interest and government with the Center for Co-op and Career Development at Northeastern University School of Law in Massachusetts, worked in the public sector for over a decade.
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How to make your scientific data accessible, discoverable and useful

Add comments to show what you’re doing, and detail how to run the code, suggests John Guerra Gómez, a computer scientist at Northeastern University’s campus in San Francisco, California. “Think as a time traveller,” he says. “What would I want John in the future to know about this?”
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Why Big Pieces Of The Titan Sub Survived Implosion But The Crew Didn’t

“Implosions like explosions are very violent,” explained Arun Bansil, physics professor at Northeastern University. “As the hull breaks apart under the huge external pressure, a large amount of energy is released, and the five occupants would have died instantly.”
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“All We Are is Memory”

Burnham, a lawyer and the founding director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University, opens her book with a 1944 death in Donalsonville, Georgia, that resonated with me.
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More Americans see gun violence as major problem, poll finds

According to a database maintained by USA Today and Northeastern University, the number of mass shootings in the country in 2022 was the second highest since the two institutions began tracking these incidents in 2006.
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Scientists unveil shape-changing ‘morphobot’ that can walk, drive, and fly

Researchers, including Alireza Ramezani from Northeastern University in the US, say the morphobot can transform its shape to navigate the environment by flying, rolling, crawling, crouching, balancing, and tumbling.
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Watch a transforming robot roll, crawl, stand up and fly

“This technology could transform future space explorations, particularly Mars explorations,” says Alireza Ramezani at Northeastern University, Massachusetts. A rover that can fly and navigate difficult terrain could help to collect samples from areas that current rovers can’t easily access, he says.
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The future of space exploration is a transforming, animal-like robot, scientists say

Alireza Ramezani, an assistant professor of electrical computer engineering at Northeastern University and author of the study, told ABC News.
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Invading your privacy? There’s an app for that.

Christo Wilson, associate professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, said enforcement of California’s law is weak and consumer preferences are not always respected — but would be a step in the right direction.

Mix of impulsivity, access to guns contribute to shootings by American teens

Powerful firearms became more readily available starting in the 1980s, before which knives and low-caliber pistols were often the weapons of choice by teens who killed, said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University in Boston.
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What role will liability waivers play in the aftermath of the Titan sub tragedy?

But Steve Flynn, a retired Coast Guard officer and director of Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute, said possible lawsuits might not succeed given the challenges of establishing jurisdiction.