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Shreveport massacre shocked Americans. Why do parents kill their kids?

This is the largest such case in at least 20 years, according to a review of a mass killings database by USA TODAY, the Associated Press and Northeastern University research professor of criminology James Alan Fox.

Anthropic Wants Claude to Be Moral. Is Religion Really the Answer?

Op-ed by David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University.
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Humanoid robots outrun humans at Beijing half-marathon

DW spoke with Ravinder Dahiya, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University College of Engineering in Boston.
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Biologic degraders push forward in the clinic

“I think a degrader is perfect for this indication,” says Sunny Zhou, a chemist at Northeastern University who works on extracellular degraders.
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Mass killings database: Every event since 2006

James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University in Boston, oversees the database and continues to add information drawn from media reports, FBI data, arrest records, medical examiners’ reports, prison records and other court documents.
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The growing movement to keep kids off social media

This week on The Codcast, Boston College professor Ana Martínez Alemán, who has studied the effects of social media on students, and Northeastern University professor John Wihbey, unpack that overriding question and more.
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Your Mindfulness Practice May Be Working Against You. Here’s Why.

Liz Bucar, PhD, a religion professor at Northeastern University and author of Beyond Wellness, explains how the version of mindfulness most of us are practicing has been carefully, deliberately, and strategically emptied of the very elements that made it work in the first place.
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Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year

Describes a grant submitted by Rebecca Shansky, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University who studies sex differences in behavior and brain function.
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Are mainstream news media finally ready to examine Trump’s mental fitness?

Op-ed by Jill Abramson, who teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.
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AI graduation requirements will soon be here

Some colleges and universities are already putting AI tools directly into students’ hands. Northeastern University, for example, partnered with the technology company Anthropic to make advanced AI tools widely available to students across disciplines.
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Massachusetts AG, ticket sellers weigh in on Ticketmaster verdict

“Ticketmaster has taken a sizeable fee for decades. It harms us directly because we’re overcharged with these,” said economist John Kwoka.
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Jury finds Ticketmaster owner ran illegal monopoly

“This verdict underscores what a bad idea settling was,” John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University, told AFP.