“We developed a new algorithm that is simultaneously the best” on every performance dimension, said Jelani Nelson, a computer scientist at Harvard University and a co-author of the work with Kasper Green Larsen of Aarhus University in Denmark, Huy Nguyen of Northeastern University and Mikkel Thorup of the University of Copenhagen.

UC Davis, Mars Inc., the University of Washington, Northeastern University and Thermo Fisher Scientific have launched a crowdsourcing project aimed at unlocking ways to neutralize aflatoxin. It’s more fun than you might think. To participate, you simply play a computer game called Foldit. Players tinker with 3-D puzzles that mimic the shapes of proteins — […]

Rappaport and his team have published their results this week in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The paper’s co-authors are Andrew Vanderburg of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; several amateur astronomers including Thomas Jacobs of Bellevue, Washington; and researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, NASA’s Ames Research Center, and Northeastern […]

“At a time when there seem to be fewer and fewer American Jewish public intellectuals, Leon Wieseltier’s public downfall and disgrace, however well deserved, is another stain on American Jewish public life,” said professor Dov Waxman of Northeastern University.

Richard Ausness, a professor and the University of Kentucky School of Law, and Leo Beletsky, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, discuss President Trump’s Thursday announcement declaring a national emergency over the opioid crisis, which comes one day after Purdue Pharma was targeted by federal prosecutors over the marketing of controversial opioid painkiller OxyContin. […]

There are many reasons why addiction took off so easily, from poor access to mental health treatment to jobs leaving parts of the country to a growing sense of social isolation. Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University, points to the fact that the US has seen rises in other […]

The PAM used in the study led by Indiana University, called GAT211, was developed at Northeastern University. During the study, the scientists compared GAT211 to two other alternative pain relievers and found that it was most likely to maintain its effectiveness over time and less likely to create addiction, they reported.

This week, while I was teaching an M.B.A. class at Northeastern University in Boston, one of the students asked me what supply chain strategy makes sense for companies trying to drive profit growth and deliver sustainability at the same time? The answer was obvious: circular economy. Last week, after having spent almost three days facilitating an internal […]

Should journalists be allowed to express their opinions on social media? Among the tiny circle of people who think about such things, it is a fraught debate. Some say no — including the editors of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, both of which recently issued updated social-media guidelines. Others argue that […]

“It’s already very hard to build trust between machines and humans,” said Lu Wang, an assistant professor at the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. “A lot of people are skeptical about what they can do and how well they can serve society. Once you lose that trust, it gets even harder.”

The vast majority of Americans do not believe that owning a gun increases the risk of suicide, even though it does, according to researchers from Harvard and Northeastern universities. The lack of concern about guns comes despite the “well-established” fact that a gun in the home increases the risk of suicide, said study coauthor Dr. […]

On the fourth floor of Richards Hall on Northeastern University’s campus in Boston is a fully furnished 600-square-foot, one-bedroom apartment. It looks a little out place in a building made up of classrooms and labs. But Christine Gordon, program manager of the Consortium of Technology for Proactive Care, says this is a working lab, too.