A Gallup and Northeastern University poll of 3,297 Americans released earlier this year found 48 percent supported universal basic income and 52 percent opposed it. But the concept does have the support of such influential figures as Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk who believes it will be necessary as a result of jobs being displaced […]

Enzo Yaksic, a criminal profiler and founder of Atypical Homicide Research Group at Northeastern University in Boston, said serial killers are generally motivated by a desire for revenge — “angry and resentful individuals who believe they are settling a grievance for perceived or actual wrongs and blame others and the systems they represent for their problems.”

 Joseph Aoun, the president of Northeastern University and author of Robot Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, thinks that continuing to learn over time will be “essential” for humans as AI changes the workplace. He also advocates experiential education, such as sending students on long-term internships where they can do creative work and research.

“Fewer prescriptions have not translated into lower overdoses,” said the article’s author Northeastern University opioid researcher Leo Beletsky. “Quite the opposite.”

Sean Gallagher, founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy, sees it as part of a “competition for talent” at a time of low unemployment. Employers like Walmart and Starbucks typically have high employee turnover, and they know that training new workers is expensive. So education […]

Allegations of misconduct during Scott Pruitt’s tenure as head of the Environmental Protection Agency share a common theme: ambitious displays of power and authority, says Charn McAllister, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizational Development, Northeastern University.

“Maybe he got the trench coat idea from Columbine, but not the will to kill,” said James Alan Fox, who is a criminology professor at Northeastern University in Boston and who studies mass shootings. “Seeing someone else do something won’t take a perfectly happy individual and make him decide to pick up a gun and […]

Capital punishment in general is rarely used across the country and isn’t legal in 11 other states besides Massachusetts. WGBH legal analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed tells Morning Edition that there’s good reason capital punishment is becoming less frequent because executions are sometimes mishandled and there are troubling trends that show race and […]

Grace Hopper, known for her accomplishments as a computer scientist and high-ranking naval officer, stated back in 1965 that “Someday, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, ‘Information’; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it.” According to Northeastern University research, an estimated 2.5 exabytes […]

“Robots that help people connect with and maintain their relationships with others are becoming increasingly important,” says Timothy Bickmore, a professor at Northeastern University who is developing a digital assistant to help the elderly navigate the final stages of life.

An analysis of news reports by the Health in Justice Action Lab at Northeastern University found that while most defendants were white, in cases where the person charged was a dealer, roughly half the defendants were black or Hispanic.

“Companies are still struggling to provide the tools to help users,” says Woodrow Hartzog, a law and computer science researcher at Northeastern University and the author of Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies. “It’s not as though the day after the GDPR comes into effect, all of our privacy problems are […]