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Is it safe to eat dyed Easter eggs? An expert explains.

So, is it safe to eat dyed Easter eggs , or is it better to leave them alone? To find out, I asked Darin Detwiler , food safety expert and professor at Northeastern University, to give his opinion on the debate surrounding food colorings. This is what you need to know for Easter .

From watches to pet clothing: Inside Trump airport trademark applications

This could include fonts, logos and the size of Trump’s name on the front of the airport, said Roberts, a Northeastern University law professor.
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How the NCAA’s relationship with sports betting is changing as March Madness wraps up

Mark Gottlieb, executive director of Northeastern’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, said that online gambling is trending toward live betting.
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Some Mass. communities can’t meet child care demand, UMass Boston report finds

“As the Commonwealth continues to expand funding for child care and early education, it will be important to make sure resources flow to the right areas and type of care to meet the needs of all families,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, one of the report’s authors and an associate professor emeritus at Northeastern University.
The Week

The Cicada Covid variant is spreading in the US

The Cicada variant earned its name because, like the insect, it “first appeared back in 2024, went dormant for a while and resurfaced in the U.S. late last year,” said Northeastern Global News.
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Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston on Putting the First A.I. Data Center in Space

“How do you dissipate heat into a vacuum? It’s like your thermos,” Josep Miquel Jornet, a distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University, told Observer. 
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Exploring one of Ted Landsmark’s lesser-known passions: Antique banjos

His Boston home and his office at Northeastern University both display examples of what has become perhaps the most significant obsession of Landsmark’s lifetime: Antique banjos.
The Week

RAMageddon is ravaging the tech industry

Scientific research “increasingly relies on large-scale computing infrastructure,” Matteo Rinaldi, the director of the Institute for NanoSystems Innovation at Northeastern University, said to Nature. Many of these workloads “require substantial memory capacity.”
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How I became an artist in my 60s

Jill Abramson, a former executive editor of The New York Times, teaches journalism at Northeastern University and is a contributing Globe Opinion writer.
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‘And then we saw the little head.’ Scientists witness rare sperm whale birth

“Before this observation, our understanding was based on a very small number of fragmentary sightings,” said Giovanni Petri, a network science lead at Project CETI and a professor at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute in London. 
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The Risk of Targeting Water Desalination Plants In The Gulf Region

“Certain parts of the world might not have enough [drinking] water, but those same parts of the world may have access to oceans or to brackish water,” says Auroop Ganguly, professor at Northeastern University whose research focuses on infrastructure resilience in sustainability and security.
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How the US and Israel are making the Islamic republic stronger

Op-ed by Hossein Dabbagh, Assistant professor of philosophy at Northeastern University London