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Mass. high court rules infidelity can no longer be used as excuse to reduce murder charge

“The idea is that under very specific circumstances, if you kill someone intentionally, but you do so because you were provoked and in a state of hot blood, then that crime…can be reduced to something called voluntary manslaughter,” said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University. 
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Why Americans Are Lonely And What We Can Do About It

There are things I need to do for self-care, but we also need to make sure we design our systems and communities around making sure people have space to have healthy lifestyles.” — Dr. Kayse Lee Maass, industrial engineering professor who leads the Operations Research and Social Justice lab at Northeastern University.
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Shoppers Are Stuck in a Dupe Loop

According to Amy Pei, a marketing professor at Northeastern University who studies shopping on digital platforms, there’s no real beginning to the dupe trend.
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This Robotic Exoskeleton Could Give You Superhuman Balance

This article was originally published on The Conversation by Lena Ting at Emory University, Gregory S. Sawicki at Georgia Institute of Technology, Max Shepherd at Northeastern University, and Owen Beck at The University of Texas at Austin.
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‘Nobody has answers’: Ohio residents fearful of health risks near train site

Officials should also test for PFAS likely contaminating soil and water, said Kimberly Garrett, a Northeastern University toxicologist
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How a Dubious Parasite Cleanse Keeps Taking Over TikTok

That blind faith could end up being a legal liability for both the company and its content creator partners, said Alexandra Roberts, a lawyer who researches media law at Northeastern University.
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Exposed: 17,000 European sites contaminated by forever chemicals. Where are the worst spots?

The results are extremely concerning, said Phil Brown, a health sciences professor at Boston’s Northeastern University.
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Northeastern grad gets National Science Foundation funding for tactile sign language robot

Tatum Robotics was founded by Samantha Johnson, a graduate of Northeastern University who received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in bioengineering with a concentration in biomechanics. Johnson was named one of BostInno’s 25 under 25 in 2022.
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30 years after the deadly E. coli outbreak, a Seattle attorney still fights for food safety

“He was just taking his first steps. Just saying his first words,” recalls Detwiler, who went on to become a food safety advocate and professor at Northeastern University.
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Here’s a look at the 2 cases against Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan headed to the Supreme Court

“The court frequently takes multiple cases in order to deal with all pending disputes at once,” said Dan Urman, a law professor at Northeastern University.
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How Jimmy Carter started the craft-beer revolution — with a transportation bill

Why then? It was part of the rise of the countercultural movement, said Malcolm Purinton, food and wine historian and professor at Northeastern University. It was about the rejection of commercialization of society.
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How to make online life more pleasant

Evan Selinger is a professor of philosophy at the Rochester Institute of Technology; an affiliate scholar at Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation, and Creativity; and a scholar in residence at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.