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Why Trump wants Minnesota’s voter rolls — and the high stakes reason it matters to Mass.

“What they would say is that they’re policing voter fraud. But the states are already policing voter fraud,” Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University Law School, told MassLive.
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Boston’s Davos contingent was focused on AI, not Trump

Speakers included Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT president Sally Kornbluth, Bain Capital senior advisor and former co-chair Steve Pagliuca, Flagship Pioneering founder and chief executive Noubar Afeyan, and Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun.
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Personal AI Agents Expose A Leadership Delegation Crisis

Northeastern University researchers found that empathy matters more than technical prompting. “There’s no special AI skill,” said researcher Christoph Riedl. “It’s just good old-fashioned soft skills.”
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Public access’s next frontier

Explaining the process of science is a critical way to signal it as a human endeavor—a point Fanuel Muindi, professor of the practice and director of the Civic Science Media Lab at Northeastern University, emphasizes.
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Students hack their way into the future of brain-computer interfaces

For Northeastern University sophomores Raymond Cheung and Andrew Liew — both computer science majors — the hackathon was a chance to explore an emerging field firsthand. Cheung said he joined to learn more about BCIs and how similar systems are built. 
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For Democrats, the road to 2028 begins here

However Democrats set the calendar, it’s very likely the impact of that choice will not unfold exactly as they expect, says William Mayer, a political scientist at Northeastern University and author of several books on the nominating process. “It’s not an easy thing to game out and frequently their guess as to what they want […]
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How the US Is Abandoning Joint Climate Action Under Trump

European nations, Japan, South Korea and China are likely to try to fill the diplomatic vacuum. China, in particular, will have the authority to lead, said Maria Ivanova, the director of Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs.
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‘AI mirrors’ are changing the way blind people see themselves

“We could see AI as a textual mirror, in this case, but in psychological literature, rather than how a person looks, we understand that body image is not one-dimensional and is made up of several factors, such as context, the type of people we want to compare ourselves to, and the things we are capable […]
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In Iran, no one can breathe in this atmosphere of fear

Hossein Dabbagh is an assistant professor of philosophy at Northeastern University London
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Map Shows States With Most Drinking Water Violations

“Violations resolved through enforcement may be less harmful than violations that linger,” Phil Brown, the director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
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The best map of dark matter has revealed never-before-seen structures

 Jacqueline McCleary at Northeastern University in Massachusetts and her colleagues used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to do so, examining an area of sky slightly bigger than the full moon.
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Do You Need More Vitamin D in Winter?

Adequate amounts of vitamin D are important for overall health and well-being. Besides promoting calcium and phosphorus absorption, which are critical for building and maintaining bone density, “vitamin D plays a role in immune function, it decreases inflammation, and it helps with muscle coordination,” says Carla Bouwmeester, a clinical professor in the department of pharmacy […]