NBC Boston A Northeastern Student Has Started a Push to Make Testing for Date Rape Drugs Easier A Northeastern University student’s TikTok could soon make it easier for anyone in Massachusetts to get tested for date rape drugs. She posted on social media about her frustrating experience getting denied at a local hospital and it caught the attention of a state lawmaker who is now trying to help.
Scientific American Mystery Portrait May Be a Raphael, Artificial Intelligence Suggests “It’s not in any interesting way a variation,” says Cammy Brothers, who researches Italian Renaissance and Mediterranean art and architecture at Northeastern University.
Beyoncé is going on tour. Is Ticketmaster ready? It “will give Ticketmaster a chance to respond to problems that arise in the initial rollout,” said William Robertson, an associate professor of computer science at Northeastern University, noting that the company will also use technology to weed out bots.
Buzzfeed Twitter Is Shedding Users, Most Of Them Democrats, A New Survey Shows David Lazer, professor of political science and computer science at Northeastern University and part of the consortium of academics who organized the study, told BuzzFeed News that he was surprised by the survey findings. “I would have expected Democrats to have dropped their utilization of Twitter because Musk has said some very partisan things,” he […]
WHYY How Our Siblings Shape Us LAURIE KRAMER, Professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University and a clinical psychologist.
How AI Will Transform Project Management Some organizations are already building AI into their project management education and certification programs, and Northeastern University is incorporating AI into its curriculum, teaching project managers how to use AI to automate and improve data sets and optimize investment value from projects.
MarketWatch Drugstore health clinics are fast and convenient. What’s the catch? And researchers at Northeastern University reported in 2019 in the journal Medical Care that retail clinics on average charge less than other care settings for similar services.
Electric vehicle fires are rare, but when they occur, they can be a nightmare “The bigger the battery, the bigger the fire caused is going to be,” said K.M. Abraham, a pioneer of the lithium-ion battery and a retired professor at Northeastern University.
Being an influencer is harder than it looks Emily Hund investigates how the shifting definition of “authenticity” is the basis of a $16 billion industry.. Guest article by Evan Selinger, a professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology; an affiliate scholar at Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity.
Wired Magazine Why Bother Bringing Back the Dodo? The flow of resources into this sector may change the sorts of conservation practices people engage in, says Ronald Sandler, professor of philosophy and director of the Ethics Institute at Northeastern University in Boston.
‘Shortness of breath’: How police first described what happened to Tyre Nichols Before body cameras became widespread, the police’s word was often unchallenged by the media or otherwise, said Dan Kennedy, a longtime media observer and journalism professor at Northeastern University.
Buzzfeed Here’s What The Cordyceps Fungus Is Like In Real Life, According To Scientists “The fungus attacks insects that live in the ground or soil,” said Rebeca Rosengaus, an associate professor and behavioral ecologist at Northeastern University. “Ants are one but there are also grasshoppers, spiders, locusts.”
