In an upcoming book, “The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success,” Albert-László Barabási, a physicist at Northeastern University, describes what makes some ideas and people succeed and others fail. Among the insights: Market prices can be determined far more by popularity than most of us would care to admit.

Northeastern University president Joseph Aoun says campuses in North America and Europe are heeding his call for curriculum change.

A Northeastern University study of the Boston pilot concluded cameras can improve trust with the public and provide evidence to ensure fairer results at trial.

Looking back in retrospect, that was probably a mistake. It seems to have singlehandedly ended a two-generation trajectory toward cheaper airfares. Northeastern University economics professor John Kwoka’s retrospective assessment of recent mergers finds that this kind of mistake has been made often.

Bruce Clark, a professor of marketing at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, said that sales of pumpkin spice latte have proved more popular than in the past. “When the world is crazy, a pumpkin spice latte is particularly comforting,” he observed.

Dr. Rebecca Rosengaus​, associate professor in the department of marine and environmental sciences at Northeastern University, who was not involved in the study, told Newsweek: “I was surprised that even today, we can find sexually reproducing glyptotermes nakajimai​ and therefore, we are witnessing evolution and divergence in action!”

“Some of the traditional ways of fortifying rivers – hardened shorelines and engineering solutions – have tons of repercussions that we don’t always take into account,” says Samuel Muñoz, an assistant professor of environmental sciences and engineering at Northeastern University in Boston.

Although as much as 11.7 percent of search engine results may show differences due to personalization, according to a 2013 paper by Northeastern University’s Algorithm Auditing Research Group, researchers were surprised to find that past searches and browsing history did not seem to inform results in a signfiicant way. They found that a user’s location — as […]

That mobile browsers offer developers access to sensors isn’t necessarily problematic on its own. It’s what helps those services automatically adjust their layout, for example, when you switch your phone’s orientation. And the World Wide Web Consortium standards body has codified how web applications can access sensor data. But the researchers—Anupam Das of North Carolina […]

That said, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no more than two hours of screen time a day for kids age 2 and older — and that’s from all sources: phones, tablets, computers, video games and TV. And the best way to enforce that limit is to model that behavior ourselves. Managing screen time in Fortnite is the […]

The dominant visual image of Hill reinforces another point — the sense of unique isolation she felt, says Moya Bailey, an assistant professor at Northeastern University in Boston whose work focuses on race and gender representations in the media.

“Facial recognition is probably the most menacing, dangerous surveillance technology ever invented,” Woodrow Hartzog, a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University, told me in an email. “We should all be extremely skeptical of having it deployed in any wearable technology, particularly in contexts [where] the surveilled are so vulnerable, such as in […]