But there’s a “long and rich” scientific literature that shows fevers, especially in early pregnancy, carry “really significant” risk of morbidity and mortality for pregnant people and infants, said Laurel Gabard-Durnam, assistant professor and associate director of the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health at Northeastern University.

Religious rituals facilitate moral accountability in a way that is rare in secular society. Without religion “there’s no real, formalized way to do it,” said David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University.

A Northeastern alum has been named one of NASA’s 2025 astronaut candidates.

It is evidence of a so-called “work society”, says Sam Waterman, assistant professor of English at Northeastern University, that is, “work as socially rather than just economically compulsory”. Highlight

But Corbett and Munneke, now based at MIT and Northeastern University respectively, were certain that there would also be important cognitive components to the inversion question that could be measured only through behavioural responses. 

“They think they have a good chance of succeeding because the Supreme Court in recent cases has significantly curbed agency authority,” said Sharmila Murthy, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University.

It’s a phenomenon that could “very easily be interpreted through a kind of voter suppression lens, especially given the scrutiny of big tech,” said John Whibey, the director of the AI-Media Strategies Lab at Northeastern University.

Many people don’t feel directly threatened and are drawn in by the thrill of amateur sleuthing, says James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.

“There’s a pretty good likelihood that the decisions coming out of this meeting will further restrict vaccinations or at a minimum, limit or add confusion to the scope of vaccination coverage at a time when we really need to be doing everything possible to make them as widely available as possible,” Neil Maniar, a public […]

Research by Lisa Feldman Barrett of Northeastern University and others shows that the more precise language we have for our feelings, the better we are at understanding and coping with difficult emotions. More vocabulary can lead to more EQ.