“A lot of fans and audiences are coming into contact with new artists and forms that were on the edge of their taste palate,” said Murray Forman, a professor at Northeastern University in Boston. Forman also pointed to rising stars such as Khalid and Lil Uzi Vert, both up for Best New Artist, who came […]

The critically endangered Mexican axolotl can regenerate body parts better than practically any other vertebrate on the planet. If a limb is lost, a limb can be regrown. “We need to figure out why and hopefully mimic that in humans,” says Northeastern University’s James Monaghan, who studies the biology of regeneration in the salamander species.

Boston has been trying to find a solution for its growing traffic problems in part by efforts to link its commuter rail lines, says Barry Bluestone, professor of public policy at Northeastern University in Boston. “Our town has the talent and the excitement (to win the bid), but we have to find a way to […]

The biggest criticism from Lu Ann Reeb, a former executive producer at WBZ, and Alan Schroeder, a former television producer, is that NBC didn’t try to reinvent the local newscast. “There was an opportunity to produce something different,” said Reeb, who now teaches entrepreneurship at Emerson College. Added Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University: […]

A Norwood teen bravely battling cancer became the newest and youngest member of the Northeastern University women’s soccer team Thursday night. Caeleigh Brown, 13, was diagnosed with leukemia nearly one year ago and had to undergo daily chemotherapy treatments while enduring a long stint in the hospital. But Thursday night was a night to celebrate for the […]

As news executives contemplate what it will be like to live in a post-Facebook world, they should be thinking about what it would take to revive the media habits that prevailed before Facebook became our most important news distributor. It won’t be easy. But consider the path that the Post has taken since Amazon chief […]

Stephen Intille, an associate professor at Northeastern University who studies health technology, has run studies on sensor systems that connect to mobile phones to track movement. One of the studies he’s co-authored is specifically about how people’s intention to exercise connects with whether they do, in fact, work out.

Jack Levin, a sociologist, criminologist and the co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University, argues we’re not ignoring violent incidents. Rather, our collective fear of them is at an all-time high — a theory backed by American Psychological Association research. “We are seeing an epidemic of epidemic-thinking about violence,” Levin […]

What often goes unnoticed in the wake of such shootings is an enduring, quiet truth, said James Alan Fox, a professor of criminology, law and public policy at Northeastern University: “Schools are safe. They’ve been safe for a long time. They remain safe.”

A study in the journal Health Affairs this month found that hospitals with higher charity care amounts tend to spend less on community health programs. So an increase in uninsured patients might create “financial pressures” for hospitals to spend even less on them, said Gary Young, the study’s lead author and a health policy researcher […]

Woodrow Hartzog, Professor of Law and Computer Science at Northeastern University, voiced his concerns to the website Gizmodo: “If a database of faceprints were compromised,” he said, “it would have a ripple effect on authentication systems that used the faceprint, as well as possibly allow unauthorised parties to make use of the faceprint for surveillance.”

A majority of economists in a separate Reuters poll last week said NAFTA will probably be renegotiated successfully with no significant changes, despite the Trump administration’s saber-rattling. “I still suspect that adults will prevail and NAFTA will not be allowed to collapse,” said William Dickens, head of the economics department at Northeastern University in Boston.