“Trump wanted to tear the EPA into little bits,” says Sara Wylie, an associate professor at Northeastern University who responded to Shapiro’s email. “We started talking on that email thread about what we might be able to do.”

A popular piece of everyday technology is proving to be a powerful tool for children with autism. Researchers at Northeastern University and Boston Children’s Hospital are examining how smartwatches might help these students learn and interact better. Northeastern University professor Ralf Schlosser is studying how a smartwatch can help guide a child through all kinds […]

“The mask debate has been framed as a question of individual choice and individual responsibility,” said Wendy E. Parmet, director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University. “But when people choose not to wear a mask, they’re not only taking on risk for themselves, they’re also passing that risk onto others […]

Reports of wealthy couples taking private jets to Florida to get vaccinated have made national news, but Wendy Parmet, law and public policy and urban affairs professor at Northeastern University, said the problem is much deeper than a few ultra-rich skipping the line. “If there’s not a lot of transparency and trust in the system, in its […]

But proponents of climate action too often feed into this narrative, engaging in what Jennie C. Stephens, a sustainability science and policy researcher at Northeastern University, calls climate isolationism. They rely on overly narrow, technology-centric solutions.

An international team of researchers from institutions including Boston Children’s Hospital, Northeastern University and the University of Oxford has partnered with Google.org, Google’s nonprofit subsidiary, to release Global.health, a platform that contains information about almost 10 million COVID-19 cases from over 100 countries.

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, Boston, and the author of Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev won an appeal of his death sentence on grounds that a federal judge didn’t do enough to ensure an unbiased jury, despite an extensive selection process, said Northeastern University criminal law professor Daniel S. Medwed.

“The better the job we do with testing, the more certainty we have in what’s going on, and the more certainty we can have in what actions we need to take — whether that’s relaxing [public health] measures or increasing measures,” said Samuel Scarpino, a Northeastern University epidemiologist.

With the support of Google.org, researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital, Northeastern University and Oxford University created Global.health with the express purpose of leveraging data from open-access and authoritative public health sources to track disease progression.

Here & Now‘s Callum Borchers speaks with Brook Baker, professor at Northeastern University School of Law with a focus on intellectual property and access to medicine.

But also, KN95 and surgical-style masks don’t always fit very well. As Loretta Fernandez, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, explained, “There’s nothing magical about a KN95. The edges still need to form a good seal against the face for it to be protective.”