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 […]

As election season approaches, two cases with potentially major impacts on voter turnout are before the state’s Supreme Judicial Court this morning. One case stemming from a 2016 lawsuit against the state’s election office would force Massachusetts to implement same-day voter registration, according to WGBH Legal Analyst and Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed.

“These policies represent a knee-jerk response that is unmoored from evidence,” Leo Beletsky, an opioid policy researcher at Northeastern University, told Gizmodo via email. “For example, the best available evidence is that legitimate patient need for opioid analgesia ranges from about 4 to 17 days, so it makes no sense to limit initial prescriptions across […]

MOOCs are far from dead. Rather, they appear to hatch derivatives. Sean Gallagher of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy refers to this as “the new ecology of credentials”, a landscape transforming rapidly as we move from the early knowledge economy to the digital, AI, Gig economy.

There were plenty of challenges working in one of the coldest places on the planet, said Hanumant Singh, another study co-author. The batteries for the drones kept freezing and losing their power, until the researchers began keeping them warm inside their jackets, said Dr. Singh, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering […]

“Given the alleged facts in this case, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see more lawsuits,” says Woodrow Hartzog, a law and computer science professor at Northeastern University who studies privacy and data protection issues. “Oftentimes you will have state attorneys general that might even work together if that appears to be the best […]

Some suggestions were more idiosyncratic. Matthew Miller, a public health scholar at Northeastern University, said there’s more to understand about why people decline to unload and lock guns in storage, particularly when children are nearby.

Just in time for Purim, local playwright Samuel Bernstein has a new musical for Jews and non-Jews alike — if you can make the trip to New York. Bernstein, a former Northeastern University English professor for 55 years, wrote another play with Jewish roots. His “Olympics Über Alles,” from 2014, was about track stars Marty […]