“Only by integrating high-resolution genomics, case testing and anonymous mobility data were we able to identify the drivers of Alpha variant emergence and spread in the UK,” said Samuel Scarpino, a disease modeller at Northeastern University in Boston, who was part of the project team.

Airbnbs are booming as summer tourist season takes off in vacation hot spots like Cape Cod — as well as in residential neighborhoods. A new study from Northeastern University caused concern by showing a link between the number of Airbnbs in Boston neighborhoods and spikes in violent crime. To discuss the study, Dan O’Brien, director […]

“The purpose of AiTHOS is to hold each other accountable and to uphold our commitment to fair, equitable, and ethical use of synthetic media technology,” said Rupal Patel, chief executive of VocalID and professor of computer science at Northeastern University.

The labor loss is being referred to as a “Great Resignation.” Bob Triest, professor of economics at Northeastern University and former vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank, joined Mary Blake on GBH’s Morning Edition to discuss.

Different methods of construction will display structural problems in different ways, said Mehrdad Sasani, an engineering professor at Northeastern University whose expertise is in concrete structures.

Brian Helmuth, professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University, agreed there are always trade-offs when installing renewable energy at scale.

Some jurisdictions, notably in Southern California, have again mandated indoor mask-wearing; some, like New Orleans, are advising it. But, in other areas, the public hostility toward mask-wearing and social distancing makes it unclear whether these tools would still be effective if health authorities tried to resort to them again, said Wendy Parmet, director of the […]

Researchers at Northeastern University in Boston conducted a statistical analysis of Airbnb listings and data on different types of crime in their city.

“There’s an entire multi-hundred billion dollar industry of companies you’ve never heard of,” said Ari Ezra Waldman, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.

Recently, the group invited Hillsborough leaders, including officials from law enforcement agencies, to meet with Jack McDevitt, a professor at Northeastern University’s Institute of Race and Justice. McDevitt’s research team has conducted traffic stop studies in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Kansas. He explained why his team needed information for all traffic stops, not just those […]

The peer-reviewed study looked at Airbnb housing data in Boston from 2011 to 2018, data from Northeastern, and 911 dispatches from that same time period. Northeastern professors examined violent and nonviolent crime reports, and found that violent crime tended to rise about a year or two after an increase in Airbnbs. The housing data used in the […]

Just seconds or minutes of recorded human speech can help teach an AI system to generate its own synthetic speech, though getting it to capture the clarity and rhythm of Anthony Bourdain’s voice probably took a lot more training, said Rupal Patel, a professor at Northeastern University who runs another voice-generating company, VocaliD, that focuses […]