Smithsonian Magazine These Two Newly Described Worms Have Really Strange, Yet Marvelous Butts “That was when we knew we’d struck shipworm gold,” the study’s first author Reuben Shipway, a marine biologist at Northeastern University in Boston, says.
Missouri’s Last Abortion Clinic Might Have Just Put Itself in More Danger of Closing “If the state closes down a clinic and the clinic is saying, ‘We are refusing to comply because you are making us do something unethical,’ that is such a powerful statement to the country,” said Aziza Ahmed, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law who’s written about reproductive rights law.
Mother Nature Network This newly identified critter eats rocks and secretes them as sand “It’s almost mythical,” lead researcher Reuben Shipway of Northeastern University, explains in a news release. “All the other species, for at least some part of their lives, actually require wood.”
Al Jazeera From spying to lobbying, Israel’s fight against BDS intensifies The international impact of BDS has alarmed Israel, which, according to Dov Waxman, a professor of political science, international affairs and Israel studies at Northeastern University, has come to regard the movement as a “major strategic threat”.
Forbes Benefits Of A VPN In 2018, Bloomberg reported on a Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst study of how the largest mobile providers were slowing, or throttling, internet speeds for popular apps like YouTube and Netflix.
Teachers should enrich life, not worship the machine Joseph Aoun, president of Northeastern University and author of Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, says that universities will increasingly have to offer their students life-long learning plans: “At present, our education system is not affordable, adaptable or scalable,” he says. “Education needs to be continuous, which means we have to rethink […]
Science News Rock-Eating Shipworm Discovered in Philippines “Lithoredo abatanica is not a wood-borer and lacks the anatomical and morphological specializations typically associated with wood-boring and wood-digestion in other species,” said Dr. Reuben Shipway of Northeastern University and colleagues.
Romper New York City To Fund Abortions For Those From Other States & It’s A Historic First “There haven’t been that many city and state public officials to say we should publicly fund abortions. It’s a big statement,” Aziza Ahmed, a law professor at Northeastern University in Boston told the New York Times. “This is a culture war to some degree.”
A Bizarre New Species of Mollusk Eats Rocks, Poops Sand, and Shapes Rivers “It turns out [locals] have known about these animals for ages and they feed them to young mothers to induce lactation,” said lead author Reuben Shipway, a marine biologist at Northeastern University, in a phone call with Motherboard.
This Creature Eats Stone. Sand Comes Out the Other End. Reuben Shipway and Daniel Distel of Northeastern University, members of the Philippine Mollusk Symbiont International Collaborative Biodiversity Group, went in search of the creatures with snorkeling masks and chisels in tow.
LiveScience This Weird Animal Eats Rocks for Breakfast “We want to look at the symbionts, the bacteria that live inside these animals, to see if they are providing any nutrition, and this is an area of research we are currently focusing on,” said study lead researcher Reuben Shipway, a postdoctoral researcher at the Marine Science Center at Northeastern University in Massachusetts.
How ‘Stealth’ Consolidation is Undermining Competition John Kwoka at Northeastern University has documented that the FTC, while continuing to challenge mergers resulting in just two to four competitors, has since the mid-2000s been less likely to challenge mergers that result in five to eight competitors.