Northeastern University Professor of Structural Engineering Mehrdad Sasani told WBZ there is a possibility something similar could happen right in our backyard.

A total of 88 people have died in the killings so far in 2023. A mass killing is defined as the slaying of four or more people other than the perpetrator, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.

As Kathleen Creel, a professor of philosophy and computer science at Northeastern University, put it: “When you give it a prompt, it says, Okay, based on this prompt … this word is 60 percent most likely to be a good word to go next, and this word is 20 percent, and this word is 5 percent.”

This year’s convention came just days after mass shootings at a school in Nashville, Tennessee and at a bank last week in Louisville, Kentucky, the latter of which marked the 15th mass killing of the year in the U.S. in which four or more people were killed other than the perpetrator, according to a mass killings database maintained […]

American guns are concentrated in a tiny minority of households: just 3 percent own about half the nation’s guns, according to a 2016 Harvard and Northeastern University study.

A 2022 study from Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute estimated that 73 percent of the United States food supply is ultra-processed. 

On the surface, that seems like an easier problem to fix: if more people need a drug, simply make more of it. But “even if everyone wants to increase the production, it might just not be possible,” says Ozlem Ergun, a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at Northeastern University and an expert in pharmaceutical […]

Op-Ed by Leo Beletsky is a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University and faculty director of the Action Lab at the Center for Health Policy and Law.

Northeastern University student Andre Neto Caetano watched NASA’s Artemis 1 launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida live on a device in the lobby of a hotel across the country in California.

Data from a 2018 Northeastern University and Gallup survey found 85% of Americans use at least one of six products with AI elements—these products include navigation apps, ridesharing apps, digital assistants, video or music streaming services, smart home devices and intelligent home personal assistants.

“They don’t give much credence to the FDA” and have “emphasized from their perspective the dangerousness of mifepristone,” said Wendy Parmet, a law professor at Northeastern University.

Northeastern University is the dorm’s “initial tenant,” wrote Joshua Bird, general counsel of Hawkins Way, in a letter this month to the Boston Planning and Development Agency. Hawkins Way has offices in New York and Los Angeles, and bought the Sheraton last February in partnership with Värde Partners, another investment firm.