“It’s like discovering a new element,” physicist Arun Bansil, who led a team of researchers from Northeastern University to make this discovery, said. “And we know there’s going to be all sorts of interesting applications for this.”

Sean Gallagher is founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy, and executive professor of educational policy.

It’s the second year for the 733-square-foot island that was planted on a raft and placed by the Charles River Conservancy in partnership with researchers from Northeastern University. “There’s irises, there’s bulrush. There’s almost 30 different native species out on the island,” said Northeaster researcher Max Rome.

 Lazer is a professor of political science and computer sciences at Northeastern University and co-director of the NULab for Texts Maps and Networks.

Alan Clayton-Matthews, professor emeritus at Northeastern University, warned that the mutant’s continued spread could throw a wrench in the rosy economic projections for the rest of 2021.

Daniel Medwed, GBH News legal analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed joined Aaron Schachter on Morning Edition to discuss whether these vaccine mandates are likely to withstand the inevitable flurry of courtroom challenges.

Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston, told the New York Times that “it was not biologically possible” to experience overdose symptoms, or to die, from touching or being exposed to the drug.