The Northeastern University emeritus professor has compiled statistics from the state showing that drivers going northbound from the Braintree split on Interstate 93 during the morning rush hour travel, on average, at 10.3 miles per hour. (And that’s without an accident or construction.)

“It’s the equivalent to formulating anti-terrorism policy by consulting with groups that deny terrorism exists,” said Northeastern University’s Matthew Nisbet, a professor of environmental communication and public policy.

“It’s a sign perhaps for prosecutors to slow down,” said Daniel S. Medwed, a Northeastern University law professor. “Being very aggressive in sentencing recommendations might not always be in the best interest of justice. Some of these defendants are far more culpable than others.”

People who identify with the “Quantified Self movement” are, as expressed in the movement’s motto, seeking “self-knowledge through self-tracking.”  Joseph Reagle, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University

“Even just the moniker — ‘the opioid epidemic’ — out of the gate, is problematic and incorrect,” says Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University in Boston. “This was never just about opioids.”

Stephanie Roberts Hartung, a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Law, joined WBUR’s Morning Edition host Bob Oakes to break down the jury’s not guilty verdict.

Environmental scientist Prof Samuel Munoz of Northeastern University also says 2019 will make the history books.

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University and the author of “How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain.”

Business is in certain ways still a man’s world, as signified by pay disparities and inappropriate treatment of women in the workplace, according to Brian Uzzi, the lead author of the study and a professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

About 610 locations in 43 states, serving an estimated 19 million people, have PFAS in the drinking water, according to the Environmental Working Group and the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University.

A new study by the non-profit Environmental Working Group and researchers from Northeastern University found that nitrate pollution in U.S. drinking water could cause over 12,000 cases of cancer each year.

“Many species have evolved traits that are adaptive in their environment but are similar to disease states in humans,” says Jake Daane, lead author of the study (Northeastern University). “We use this natural variation to better understand the genetic mechanisms of disease.” “Antarctic notothenioids don’t have swim bladders to adjust their buoyancy in the water […]