While women have won many rights and protections in the past few decades, Martha Davis, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University School of Law, told the Cut that the progress has largely been through statute or judicial opinions, which can be reversed much more easily than a constitutional amendment.

The scientists from Stony Brook and Northeastern Universities count each member of the chaotic colony on foot, using mechanical clickers, and scan them from above with high-tech drones. 

“As a graduate student, I benefited enormously from open source software, both as a learning experience and as a tool that enhanced my own research. Back then I made a commitment to pay it forward.” — Olga Vitek, Northeastern University.

Lisa Feldman Barrett, a psychologist at Northeastern University who specializes in human emotion, has previously pointed out that the way most tech firms train AI to recognize human emotions is deeply flawed. 

But using machine learning and artificial intelligence, network scientist Albert László Barabási at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues propose that human diets consist of at least 26,000 biochemicals — and that the vast majority are not known (Nature Food 1, 33–37; 2020).

“The technology seems very exciting,” says Abigail Koppes, a biological and chemical engineer at Northeastern University, who studies bioelectronics.

WGBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu spoke with Northeastern University law professor and WGBH legal analyst Daniel Medwed about what the Supreme Court’s rejection means.