Older people are particularly vulnerable to infection, and the rise of superbugs that couldn’t easily be killed is even more worrisome. But in a major breakthrough, scientists from Northeastern University recently discovered the first new antibiotic in 30 years. Currently in trials, this drug, called teixobactin, could be available in the next five years, and is effective […]

The amygdala, an almond-shaped structure in the brain, was believed to be central to our experience and perception of fear. But the role of the structure turned out to be a bit more complicated, as research scientist Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett explains in a new paper.

Bill Mitchell, retired journalist and adjunct professor at Northeastern University, and current member of the pastoral council of the Paulist Center, discusses Cardinal Sean O’Malley’s apology for how his office handled a 2015 letter that raised concerns about sexual abuse by another American cardinal.

Although the unemployment rate is currently at a historic low of 4%, economists are still struggling to understand why it remained so painfully high after the Great Recession—and why it took five years to return to its pre-recession level. Our research points to one possible reason: employers increased skill requirements during the recession, when high-skill workers […]

As a result, several experts who support supervised consumption sites said that the new review of the research is fundamentally flawed. “They excluded, almost systematically, a lot of the studies that had demonstrated benefits on the metrics that they have selected,” Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, told me.

“It’s a corporate win-win,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, a Northeastern University law professor specializing in technology policy. “There’s no downside for companies in trying to defend their customers and trying to forestall legislation that might require that they adjust their structures. And it’s obviously a benefit to defend their brand if criminals are abusing their goodwill.”

The Globe review follows a report released by a Northeastern University research institute in July that revealed many black and Latino students have been locked out of the city’s highest-performing elementary and K-8 schools, while many white students who tend to live closer to those schools have been gaining admission to them.

Research universities are squeezing an extra roommate into residence halls: Amazon’s Alexa. The Georgia Institute of Technology, Northeastern University, and Arizona State University last year provided students with Echo Dots, puck-shaped, voice-activated devices programmed to answer campus-specific questions about meal plans and business hours for campus buildings.

The pilot concluded last September, at which point researchers at Northeastern University began reviewing the data from the involved officers.

Thomas Webster, PhD, the chair of Boston-based Northeastern University’s chemical engineering department, designed the FortiCore PLIF and TLIF spinal implants’ nanofeatures.

The analysis of Boston Police Department data revealed that shootings were more likely to result in death with both large-caliber (OR 4.54, 95% CI 2.37-8.70, P

Indeed, scientists have been studying animal abuse as a predictor of future mass violence since the 1960s. A 2013 study, coauthored by Northeastern University professor Arnold Arluke, found that about 40 percent of school shooters from 1988 to 2012 committed a particular type of abuse: flagrant, “up-close and personal” violence against animals, like “strangling, bludgeoning, burning, or mutilating” […]