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Waterfalls Appear in Death Valley, the Hottest and Driest Place on Earth

“On the hydrometeorological hazards side, heat waves are getting, and are further projected to get, even hotter, cold snaps persisting even if growing less frequent, heavy precipitation getting heavier, and so on,” Auroop R. Ganguly, director of the Sustainability & Data Sciences Laboratory at Northeastern University, previously told Newsweek.
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Biden’s Omicron Booster Campaign Faces Fatigue, Efficacy Doubts

“We are working against the tide of Covid fatigue, misinformation, and the government’s broken promises that the end is right around the corner,” said Brook Baker, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a senior policy analyst at Health GAP, an advocacy group focusing on equity in access to HIV medications.
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Art Spiegelman’s ‘Maus’ is the latest One Book, One Chicago title. It feels like a provocation.

“Spiegelman’s justification, in part, is he is resignifying Nazi propaganda, which called Jews vermin and Poles swine,” said [Hillary] Chute, now a professor at Northeastern University in Boston.
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The Food Chain: Inside food safety scares

Northeastern Professor Darin Detwiler interviews with BBC radio on serious food safety breaches and how he’s working to ensure food safety and strengthen our food systems.
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Trump probe: US Justice Department appeals ‘special master’ orde

Michael Meltsner, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston, said earlier this week that an appeal of the judge’s ruling would likely succeed but also carries risks.

As concerns about PFAS rise, doctors scramble to learn about the toxic chemicals

In collaboration with others, Phil Brown, director of Northeastern University’s Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute, has compiled resources for individuals and medical professionals, detailing things like which labs doing PFAS blood testing are reliable and what diagnosis code to use.
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What caused Pakistan’s deadly floods? From melting glaciers to ‘monster’ monsoon

Even government infrastructure such as dams and reservoirs were “woefully unprepared” in Pakistan, explained Auroop Ganguly, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.
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The ABCs of AI, algorithms and machine learning (re-air)

Bethany Edmunds, professor and director of computing programs at Northeastern University, compares it to cooking.
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When Will the Heatwave in California End?

Auroop R. Ganguly, director of the Sustainability & Data Sciences Laboratory at Northeastern University, previously told Newsweek that this so-called “global weirding” will only continue to worsen as greenhouse emissions skyrocket.
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‘We need rain’: Drought threatens the very foundation of some Boston buildings

New efforts in green infrastructure offer another solution, said Michelle Laboy, an assistant professor of architecture at Northeastern University. 
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What Babies Hear When You Sing to Them

When parents sing, they create a shared context for their tiny listener and themselves. “Music is a form of joint attention,” Psyche Loui, a Northeastern University professor studying music cognition, told me.
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‘Devastating’: Mass shootings obscure daily U.S. gun toll

Victims killed in mass shootings make up about 1% of all those killed in gun homicides nationwide, despite headlines that instill fear in many Americans, said James Fox, a professor at Northeastern University who has created a database of mass killings stretching back to 2006 with The Associated Press and USA Today.