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Why Must We Go About Our Lives With an Eye on the Nearest Exit?

The visible presence of firearms increases the risk of violence and death when exercising one’s First Amendment rights,” Zick and Diana Palmer, a part-time lecturer at Northeastern University, write in The Atlantic.
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Scientists have come up with a new steel that is ultratough, yet stretchable

The team – from Northeastern University in Shenyang, Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science and Jiangyin Xingcheng Special Steel Works in eastern China, as well as the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Germany – published their findings in the peer-reviewed journal Science on Friday.
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Portland leaders get look at proposed zoning changes at B&M Baked Beans factory

The plan is to build a graduate school and research center as part of Northeastern University’s new and expanding Roux Institute.
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Citing increasingly toxic climate, Michelle Wu turns away from Twitter

Some cited Musk’s welcoming back of prominent purveyors of misinformation like Donald Trump, who had been tossed off the platform because of his role inciting the January 6 insurrection, while others, including Northeastern University journalism professor Dan Kennedy, have pointed to Musk’s own behavior.
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Enthusiasms: Making 5G look slow

Researchers at Northeastern University achieved a big leap in “terahertz” communications, sending a stream of data across 2 kilometers at speeds orders of magnitude faster than 5G. Terahertz describes an elusive part of the electromagnetic spectrum that scientists believe could power future generations of wireless technology, according to a paper published in Nature Electronics detailing […]
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Janet Malcolm, chronicler of psychiatry, shied away from self-analysis

Sebastian Stockman is a teaching professor in the English department at Northeastern University and the writer of an infrequent newsletter, “A Saturday Letter.”
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$5.6M in state funding to support Maine startups, entrepreneurs

Grant recipients include the Roux Institute at Northeastern University in Portland, ProsperityME, Coastal Enterprises Inc. and Fork Food Lab.
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XBB.1.5 shows we’re thinking about covid variants all wrong. Here’s a better way.

“The immunological history of a population is now much more complicated than it was at the beginning,” said Sam Scarpino, an evolutionary biologist at Northeastern University. “It’s just a lot harder to reason through what may or may not happen with any new variant that shows up.”
World Nuclear News (WNN)

New method for assessing ageing of reactor components

The team included researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Idaho National Laboratory, Manchester University and Imperial College London in the UK, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Electric Power Research Institute, Northeastern University, the University of California at Berkeley, and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia.
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HHS Pressed on Next Crisis, Equity as Covid Emergency Lingers

In unwinding the PHE, the “HHS has to balance the fact that, on the one hand, it’s not good practice to have an everlasting emergency; that emergency powers, by their very definition, should be for a limited duration,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law.
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Portland City Council gets first look at proposed Roux Institute rezoning

The Roux Institute, part of Northeastern University, is envisioning a high-tech graduate school, business accelerator and training pipeline to boost Maine’s workforce and economy, and that would one day host about 5,000 students on the 13-acre site.
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When a Criminology Student Turns Criminal

“Studying criminology is not going to make you a criminal, and it’s not going to make you a better criminal,” said James Allan Fox, a longtime professor of criminology at Northeastern University and the former dean of its College of Criminal Justice. “What we teach is ‘how come?’ Not ‘how.’”