“In a way, ISIS belied important geopolitical differences that are now becoming clearer. ISIS was a great unifier in the sense that virtually all international actors opposed the group and were therefore prepared to set aside differences to work towards this common goal,” Max Abrahms, assistant professor at Northeastern University and expert on international terrorism, […]

“Parents may really misjudge or discount their child’s underlying risk,” said Dr. Matthew Miller, study author and professor at Northeastern University, as well as an adjunct professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. “They have too much confidence in the instructions they’ve given their kids or how they’ve hidden their gun.”

“The drone lets you fly in a grid over the island, taking pictures once per second. You can then stitch them together into a huge collage that shows the entire landmass in 2D and 3D,” said Professor Hanumant Singh, an engineer at Northeastern University who developed the drone’s imaging and navigation system.

“The drone lets you fly in a grid over the island, taking pictures once per second. You can then stitch them together into a huge collage that shows the entire landmass in 2D and 3D,” explained Prof Hanumant Singh from Northeastern University.

The team counted thousands of penguins by hand, but also used a modified commercial drone to systematically image the entire nesting area. They counted penguins in the drone imagery using neural network software developed by Hanumant Singh at Northeastern University in Boston.

Massachusetts public schools cannot be held liable for injuries suffered by students as a result of bullying. That is the ruling from the state’s highest court this week. The Supreme Judicial Court’s decision came in the case of Matthew Mumbauer. In 2008, he was 11 years old, a student at the Brickett Elementary School in […]

In the immediate aftermath of the Parkland shooting, progressive activists and commentators (including this one) repeatedly claimed that there had been 18 school shootings since the start of this year. This proved to be a gross exaggeration. In reality, according to new research from Northeastern University, there have been a grand total of eight mass […]

But in dense cities, where the speed limit may be 25 miles per hour or less, it would be better to make speeding feel uncomfortable for drivers by striping narrow, 10-foot lanes for cars. Similarly, the Northeastern University professor Peter Furth has pointed out that on roads with medians, the MUTCD doesn’t require pedestrian signals […]

Nothing, as it turns out. Why an off-the-record ask at a sports conference was a blunder for everyone involved. “I don’t like it,” said Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University. “It’s inappropriate for a university to be associated with this kind of off-the-record request.”

But ideally, policy should be proportionate to the danger faced. And that leaves us with a question: Are schools actually increasingly dangerous? New research released this week by Northeastern University researchers shows that they aren’t.

This comes from a study by James Alan Fox of Northeastern University, who says that (a) mass school shootings are not on the increase, and (b) in general, schools are safer than they’ve been since the 90s.

Researchers at a university in Boston have concluded that calls for gun reform percolating after the deadly school shooting in Florida are “unlikely” to prevent future school shootings. In fact, the researchers assert that school shootings are “not more common than they used to be,” according to a summary of the work published by Northeastern […]