Researchers at Northeastern University have found that mergers in concentrated markets drive up prices by an average of 7 percent, while a paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics has found a tripling in product “markups” since 1980.

CBS News’ Bradley Blackburn reports, and then Max Abrahms, a Northeastern University political science professor and senior fellow with the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, joins “CBSN AM” to talk more about the challenges.

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That prompted our team at Boise State University, in collaboration with researchers at Northeastern University, to look closer at what happens to sperm of mice exposed to wildfire smoke.

Samuel Scarpino, an epidemiologist who is managing director of pathogen surveillance at the Rockefeller Foundation and an affiliate faculty member at Northeastern University, said models at the beginning of the summer predicted that Massachusetts would be sailing now into a time of zero deaths, but the “Delta variant has completely changed the game.”

Joan Fitzgerald, an urban planning and policy professor at Northeastern University, found Essaibi George’s plan, which does not include any timelines, to be the weakest among those of the five candidates and called Janey’s plan “lukewarm” and “not very well laid out.” Fitzgerald, who has not endorsed a candidate, did applaud Janey’s appointment of White-Hammond.

“If they are narrowly adapted to the conditions that they live in, and those conditions start to disappear or be replaced with novel climates,” said Katie Lotterhos, an associate professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University, “they can’t disperse to a place, or migrate to a place, where they’re going to find that […]

“When you see those hate crime statistics, you’re really looking at the very, very tip of a huge iceberg,” Carlos Cuevas, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice and co-director of the Violence and Justice Research Lab at Northeastern University, told Marilyn Schairer on Morning Edition Friday.

“Previous studies have looked at specific locations and said, ‘Okay, this location’s getting warmer, or this location is getting acidic.’ What we did was, we looked at the whole climate of the global ocean,” said lead author Katie Lotterhos, associate professor of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center in Nahant, Maine.

Lead study author Katie Lotterhos, from Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center, said the ocean’s changing composition due to carbon pollution would likely impact all surface species. “Species that are narrowly adapted to a climate that is disappearing will have to adapt to different conditions,” she told AFP.

“That money was not exclusively used to buy weapons,” Julie Garey, an assistant teaching professor of political science at Northeastern University, said in an email. “And even if that number was broken down to determine exactly how much was used for weapons, it still wouldn’t really be relevant. Not all of the weapons supplied are […]

The added weight brought by the penthouse had the potential to exacerbate a failure and contribute to the progressive collapse that killed 98 people this year, said Mehrdad Sasani, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University who reviewed the building’s design plans. He also said the decision to add a new floor […]