“We have a vaccine that is highly effective at preventing an incurable disease. We should take full advantage of that,” Neil Maniar, a public health professor at Northeastern University, told CNBC.

A shooting last weekend at a children’s birthday party in California that left four dead was the 17th mass killing this year — the lowest number recorded since 2006, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.

“Every case is a bit of a test case, and different courts and different circuits are deciding things differently,” said Elettra Bietti of Northeastern University School of Law, who signed onto a brief supporting a limited view of Section 230.

Op-ed by Laura Edelson, an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University, whose research includes studies of social media design characteristics.

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence structure over meaning when answering questions.

These recaps may signal more transparency for users, because they can see some data in their hands. And products like Wrapped have become particularly popular because they’re personalized and now designed to share online — leaving many to look forward to it as an “annual ritual” of sorts, notes Yakov Bart, a marketing professor at […]

This year alone has delivered a scripted series (“Outrageous,” on BritBox) and a graphic biography (Mimi Pond’s “Do Admit! The Mitford Sisters and Me”), but perhaps the most significant contribution is “Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford,” by Carla Kaplan (Harper), a professor of literature at Northeastern University. 

Northeastern University’s Matthews Arena is a multipurpose athletics hall that for 115 years has been home to events featuring magic and star power on par with Fenway Park, both Boston Gardens, and the long list of gridirons that have housed your Patriots since their creation.

How a particular brain assigns meaning has to do with a person’s prior experiences—what Lisa Feldman Barrett, the director of the Interdisciplinary Affective Science Laboratory at Northeastern University and the author of How Emotions Are Made, calls its “concepts and categories.”

A study by Northeastern University and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, found that people who abuse animals are five times more likely to commit violent crimes against humans. Placing vulnerable cattle in the care of individuals convicted of violent crimes, especially in a space with inadequate supervision due to low […]

Op-ed by Peter Enrich, a professor emeritus at Northeastern University School of Law and member of the steering committee of the Coalition to Reform Our Legislature.

But according to Maria Ivanova, director of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and codirector of the Plastics Center at Northeastern University, the treaty doesn’t need saving. It needs a reset. “It’s saving when something is dead. A reset is when I hit an obstacle, and I’m gonna turn around.”