The pantyhose creates a snugger fit around the wearer’s face, sealing in the loose edges of the masks, said Loretta Fernandez, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University and one of the study’s authors.

Preliminary results from a study by researchers at Northeastern University show that sewn fabric masks can in some cases approach the filtration efficiency of commercially produced masks.

The data sets and models that scientists and officials work with to try to track or predict the spread of COVID-19 are woefully incomplete or misunderstood, argues Scarpino, a physics professor at  Northeastern University in Boston.

Dr. Alessandro Vespignani is the director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University in Boston. 

A new study from Northeastern University, which has not yet been peer reviewed, suggests that wrapping a layer of nylon tights around the outside of homemade face masks offers even better protection. 

According to NPR, research conducted at Northeastern University found that adding an outer layer of nylon pantyhose to DIY face masks (or ones you’ve purchased online) improves protection and, in some cases, matched or exceeded the efficacy of surgical masks, especially because the additional fabric keeps the mask tight to your face.

For researchers and practitioners who’ve been tracking the virus’s spread, the earlier deaths in Santa Clara County are proof that there were “invisible chains of transmission” occurring in various U.S. cities in mid-January, says Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University.

Researchers at Northeastern University made their findings public this week, even though their work has yet to be peer-reviewed. NPR writes that it “was posted Wednesday on the scientific preprint site medRxiv and on the university’s website in the interest of sharing information quickly in the midst of a pandemic.” The news station also spoke […]

After the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, researchers were basically looking to see what kind of household items you could use at home to protect yourself against breathing in nuclear fallout. Here’s scientist Loretta Fernandez of Northeastern University.

Models from Northeastern University show coronavirus may have been spreading in the United States earlier than the government thought. “In the United States, the most internationally connected places are the ones that started the epidemic first, and so we are talking about New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle. Those places we are talking about […]

Modeling from Northeastern University publicized this week suggests thousands of cases may have spread undetected throughout New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle in January and February — long before those cities and others registered an official case count or implemented social distancing measures.

Even if billions of dollars are pledged, many questions and barriers persist, according to Brook Baker, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law and a senior policy analyst for the Health GAP advocacy group.