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‘Weird’ invasive clams reach Mass., marking first breeding colonies in Northeast US

Researchers from Northeastern University, the Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management and several other regional organizations also contributed to the study.

Header goals are disappearing from the World Cup

After crunching the statistics, Northeastern University’s NetSI Sport researchers say the number of header-assisted goals in FIFA World Cup matches has decreased from 23.7 percent in 2018 to just 17.9 percent through 2026’s Round of 16.
Business Insider

Your AI coworker is taking all the credit

Christoph Riedl, an information management professor at Northeastern University, says people’s hesitation to disclose AI assistance is entirely justified. 
POLITICO

The merging cost of higher education

Officials from Boston’s Northeastern University and New York City’s Marymount Manhattan College, which just finalized a merger last week, said New York City had long been a coveted destination for Northeastern students to work.
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Trump administration seeks to slash scientific funding for disfavored topics, researchers say

A regulatory change to federal funding could be more binding than the administration’s previous strategy and harder to challenge with lawsuits, said Jeremy Paul, a law professor at Northeastern University.

He Wanted to Track Microplastics in the Sea. The E.P.A. Fired Him.

Microplastics aren’t regulated or well tracked. “There’s limited data, particularly from real world cases” like a fish farm, said Aron Stubbins, a professor in marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University in Boston who studies the global distribution of microplastics in the ocean.
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‘Systemic failure’: Crash that killed Boston transit planner sparks furor over road safety efforts

Altogether, a 30-day review on all streets projects Wu launched in February 2025 has spiraled into “500 days” of inaction, said Peter Furth, a Northeastern University professor who studies bike infrastructure.
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GOP calls them ‘communists.’ Here’s what democratic socialists believe

Rather than being a fully defined political ideology in the United States, democratic socialism can be understood as a reaction to establishment politics that uses somewhat left-leaning principles, such as universal healthcare, creating more affordable housing and reorienting U.S. policy in the Middle East, all of which are popular among Democrats, said Nick Beauchamp, an […]
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Northeastern completes New York City campus deal

The merger between Northeastern University and Marymount Manhattan College was fully approved by the U.S. Department of Education, according to a statement from the university on Friday.
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Northeastern University completes merger with Marymount Manhattan College

The merger with Marymount Manhattan College brings 1,000 students into Northeastern’s system and establishes the university’s 14th global campus.
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Facebook and Instagram’s ‘addictive design’ may violate European law, EU Commission finds

Last month, a report from researchers at New York University and Northeastern University evaluating the effectiveness of social media youth safety features found that 66% of Instagram’s tools were either non-functional or too hard for a young person to find. 
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Mission creep: FIFA’s embrace of technology backfires in controversy-riven World Cup

“This kind of dystopian future of over-refereeing everything kind of fails to address what it’s originally designed to intervene on,” Klein, who with his team ​at Northeastern University has been analysing data throughout the tournament, told Reuters.