It’s official: Coffee sold in California must carry cancer warnings, a Los Angeles judge ruled this week. The warnings are required by California law, Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle said, because of the presence of acrylamide, a chemical that is formed when coffee beans are roasted and that remains in the final beverage.

In an attempt to address Mark’s inquiry, I presented the following questions to both an expert in the field, Christo Wilson, assistant professor in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University and a member of the university’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, and Brooks Hocog, a Google spokesman.

Northeastern University criminologist James Alan Fox panned reinstating the death penalty as a costly waste of time. “This is a foolish attempt because it’s not economically wise,” Fox said. “It’s not a pressing issue. We don’t have soaring crime rate, and we have other issues that require resources much more. … I’m not saying we […]

“Since there is zero evidence that a measure of the sort actually reduces overdose, diversion, or other problems, this is nothing more than window dressing,” said Leo Beletsky, associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University. “It is designed to signal to the public that Walmart is quote-unquote serious about addressing the opioid […]

After President Trump’s announcement that the United States will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal, we check-in with experts about what this will mean for Iran and the future of U.S. diplomacy. Max Abrahms, political science professor at Northeastern University, comments.

Now a postdoctoral researcher at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, Swire-Thompson has done work for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on how fact-checking changes people’s minds about certain issues — but not their votes. She’s also researched how one’s familiarity with misinformation affects their receptivity to corrections.

Impact Investing and Social Finance, Sara Minard, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University.

Daniel S. Medwed, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Law, said the decision “gives a little bit of guidance in an area that’s very gray.” It says that there are circumstances in which university officials should take action, and it outlines broadly what that action should be.

“Maybe as a child [you] really weren’t able to protect them or say anything to be helpful, but now as an adult, there’s another chance to go back to some of those moments and maybe correct some of the pain,” added Dr. Laurie Kramer, professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University.

More than 4,000 Northeastern University students received diplomas Friday, along with a message urging them to embrace curiosity and daydreaming delivered by Paralympic athlete and actress Aimee Mullins. Mullins, 41, encouraged graduates to maintain their wonder and always seek out new things. The double amputee was born without fibular bones in both legs and has […]

Ironically, Kominsky-Crumb’s publisher has decided to make this volume as portentous as possible. The introduction is by Hillary Chute, author of several books about comics and a professor at Northeastern University. Even Chute feels she’s got to bring in the big guns to make a case for Kominsky-Crumb’s place in comics history. “An art critic […]

Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business is going even further, overhauling its curriculum to, in part, weave issues facing working women into the fabric of its coursework, said dean Raj Echambadi. The school will take a two-pronged approach: teaching would-be leaders how to deal with sexual harassment while training future workers how to conduct themselves […]