At Northeastern University, volunteers go through mock airport screening over and over to help perfect video-surveillance software.

The study was authored by Deen Freelon, a media studies professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (and son of architect Phil Freelon), and three co-authors: Lori Lopez, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Meredith D. Clark, University of Virginia; and Sarah J. Jackson, Northeastern University. Freelon led the quantitative part of the study. The ingenuity lay […]

One study by researchers at Northeastern University and Harvard University estimated that 22 percent of gun sales occur without a background check under the current system.

A team from Northeastern University has found that the chromatophore organs of cephalopods–which appear as hundreds of red, yellow, brown and orange freckles and contribute to fast changes in the animal’s skin color—have the optical qualities that could be used to make thin films and fibers. These could be incorporated into textiles, flexible displays and […]

Denis Sullivan, a political science professor and co-director of the Middle East Center at Boston-based Northeastern University, told VOA that Russia is in charge when it comes to the forces supporting Assad and that it will take the full focus of the U.S. government to apply necessary pressure on Russia.

The negative effect–remembering that you were creeped out and sharing that you were creeped out–is intensified when creepy ads become intrusive or annoying. As a recent joint study conducted by Microsoft and Northeastern University concluded: “the practice of running annoying ads can cost more money than it earns, as people are more likely to abandon sites on […]

Habituation to terrorism can actually have something of a useful function — by defusing the sense of vulnerability that acts of terror are designed to cause, habituation can prevent terrorism from being effective — but becoming acclimated to repeated violence also creates the sense that these are uncontrollable events for which there’s no clear solution, […]

The American public is split on the prospect of giving a universal basic income to Americans who lose their jobs to artificial intelligence, according to a new poll. In a Gallup and Northeastern University poll released Monday, 48 percent of those surveyed said they would support a universal basic income (UBI) compared to 52 percent […]

Today, 48 percent of Americans support it, according to a new Northeastern University/Gallup survey of more than 3,000 U.S. adults.

The FDA’s announced plans are welcome news to those like Leo Beletsky, an opioid policy researcher at Northeastern University. “The immediate endpoint for opioid use disorder treatment must be reduction in overdose and other health risks, with longer-term goal being improved patient quality of life, functioning, and overall physical and mental health,” Beletsky told Gizmodo […]

And the impact of all those cars is becoming clear, said Christo Wilson, a professor of computer science at Boston’s Northeastern University, who has looked at Uber’s practice of surge pricing during heavy volume. “The emerging consensus is that ride-sharing (is) increasing congestion,” Wilson said.

Colleges nationwide, including Northeastern University, are standing by their future students, as teenagers across the country demand stricter gun control laws in the wake of a deadly school shooting in Parkland, Fla., earlier this month.