David Lazer, a political and computer scientist at Northeastern University who wasn’t part of the study but wrote an accompanying report, praised the MIT research but said the scientists may have missed a lot of bots and cyborgs — sort of in-between humans. His ongoing, not-yet-published research has found that about 80 percent of false […]

Not to be denied, many researchers get creative. To determine how many and where ride-hail vehicles were operating in San Francisco in late 2016, savvy Northeastern University data scientists tracked drivers looking for riders by systematically pinging Uber and Lyft APIs every five seconds. From there, the agency extrapolated the vehicles’ movements around the city. […]

On Tuesday, for example, the polling organization Gallup and Northeastern University reported that about one in five American adults use an intelligent home device such as Alexa, Google Home or other competing devices.

A women’s college basketball team isn’t letting a snowstorm that’s pounding the Northeast get in its way. Members of the Northeastern University women’s basketball team pushed their bus back on course after it was stuck in the snow outside a practice facility in Philadelphia on Wednesday.

Members of the Northeastern University women’s basketball team pushed their bus back on course after it was stuck in the snow outside a practice facility in Philadelphia. The Huskies were in the city to compete in the 2018 CAA Women’s Basketball Tournament. The team posted a video of the feat on its Twitter account.

The women’s basketball team at Northeastern University got an unplanned workout Wednesday when its bus got stuck in the snow in Philadelphia, where the Colonial Athletic Association championship tournament is taking place.

“This is yet another challenge to the idea that your hair can tell a story — that your hair can contribute to a narrative about you,” Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said. “And that’s a fallacy.”

What’s more, only 13% of homicides involving a rifle or shotgun were committed by people between the ages of 18 and 20 in 2016, according to data that Northeastern University Criminology Professor James Alan Fox provided to TIME based on his analysis of the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports. Another 7% of the shooters in Fox’s […]

As quickly as researchers discover antibiotics, bacteria will evolve workarounds. But Kim Lewis, a microbiologist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, is bullish that his candidate compound will stand up to the threat of resistance. Many antibiotics bind to proteins inside bacteria. But pumps nestled in the bacterial cell wall can eject unwanted molecules from […]

“Lot of attacks happen today over email, and the attackers often use social engineering as the first step of a compromise attempt,” said Engin Kirda, professor of computer science at Northeastern University.

The rest of the Colonial Athletic Association needs to play better defense than the snow if it hopes to beat the Northeastern Huskies women’s basketball team in the conference tournament.

The vast majority of Americans expect artificial intelligence to lead to job losses in the coming decade, but few see it coming for their own position. “Whether they know it or not, A.I. has moved into a big percent of Americans’ lives in one way or another already,” said Frank Newport, the editor in chief […]