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This Cheap, Tiny Device May Reverse Memory Loss—And Even Prevent Alzheimer’s, Scientists Say

The cost to treat the plaques can be enormous. A 2024 article published by Northeastern University noted that a new IV infusion therapy Kisunla, given once a month to people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, was $32,000 a year.
Scientific American

Computer Punch Cards, Coding Pipeline Problems, and the Future of Women in AI

Carla Brodley, founding executive director of the Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University, explains how to make computer science education more accessible to everyone.
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Instagram’s ‘deliberate design choices’ make it unsafe for teens despite Meta promises, report says

The report Thursday came from Bejar and the Cybersecurity For Democracy at New York University and Northeastern University, as well as the Molly Rose Foundation, Fairplay and ParentsSOS.
Mashable

Meta just launched Teen Accounts globally. Experts say the safety tools don’t work.

The analysis was conducted by Cybersecurity for Democracy and Meta whistleblower Arturo Béjar and based out of New York University and Northeastern University.
U.S. News & World Report

See the Best and Worst States for Health Care Climate Risks

“Our scorecard shows that states with strong clean energy and resilience policies are doing a better job protecting health and health care infrastructure, while other states leave patients exposed during potential crises,” Matthew Eckelman, study author and Northeastern University associate professor and associate chair for civil and environmental engineering, said in a statement.
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People are losing jobs due to social media posts about Charlie Kirk

Well, I spoke to Rebekah Tromble, a professor at Northeastern University who studies First Amendment issues, among other things.
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Mapping the structure of the brain doesn’t fully explain its function

“Connectomics data is often criticised as, ‘Oh, you get only structure. You don’t get behaviour.’ And this paper is really probing that question to what degree we can [connect the two],” says Albert-László Barabási at Northeastern University in Massachusetts.

‘Unsolved, but not forgotten’: Louis D. Brown Peace Institute pushes for justice in unsolved murders

And with the Northeastern University School of Law, she helped produce a report, “Unsolved, But Not Forgotten.”
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NASA selects three Mass. college alumni among ten US astronaut candidates

Dr. Imelda Muller, who graduated from Northeastern in 2013, was selected from a pool of 8,000 applicants, NASA announced in a live ceremony Sep. 22.
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Instagram design still makes it unsafe for teens: Report

Nearly two-thirds of the social media platform’s safety features were deemed ineffective or were no longer available, according to the report from former Facebook engineering director Arturo Béjar and Cybersecurity for Democracy, a research project from New York University and Northeastern University.
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NASA names Northeastern University graduate as astronaut candidate

Dr. Imelda Muller, who earned a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the Boston school in 2012,  is part of an elite and select group that could, one day, walk on the surface of Mars.
Science News

This experimental computer chip reuses energy

The system was reusing a portion of its electrical energy instead of wasting it as heat. “This is quite exciting,” says Aatmesh Shrivastava, a computer engineer at Northeastern University in Boston. “We all want a computing system where we can recover energy.”