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 […]

“I think it is a significant threat,” said Northeastern University analyst Costas Panagopoulos, via Skype. “We don’t know what that investigation is going to turn up. We don’t know how serious these findings will be for the president.”

“Using facial recognition to help the visually impaired or as a tool to identify and combat cyber harassment is notable, because the positive uses of facial recognition technology are pretty limited to fun and maybe authentication,” says Woodrow Hartzog, a law and computer science professor at Northeastern University who studies privacy and data protection. “It’s […]

As robots become more sophisticated and replace humans in the workforce, Americans are split over whether those who lose their jobs to artificial intelligence should receive a minimum income. The survey of more than 3,000 U.S. adults showed that almost three-quarters predicted that artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to a loss of more jobs than […]

At Northeastern University, volunteers go through mock airport screening over and over to help perfect video-surveillance software.

The study was authored by Deen Freelon, a media studies professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (and son of architect Phil Freelon), and three co-authors: Lori Lopez, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Meredith D. Clark, University of Virginia; and Sarah J. Jackson, Northeastern University. Freelon led the quantitative part of the study. The ingenuity lay […]

One study by researchers at Northeastern University and Harvard University estimated that 22 percent of gun sales occur without a background check under the current system.

A team from Northeastern University has found that the chromatophore organs of cephalopods–which appear as hundreds of red, yellow, brown and orange freckles and contribute to fast changes in the animal’s skin color—have the optical qualities that could be used to make thin films and fibers. These could be incorporated into textiles, flexible displays and […]

Denis Sullivan, a political science professor and co-director of the Middle East Center at Boston-based Northeastern University, told VOA that Russia is in charge when it comes to the forces supporting Assad and that it will take the full focus of the U.S. government to apply necessary pressure on Russia.

The negative effect–remembering that you were creeped out and sharing that you were creeped out–is intensified when creepy ads become intrusive or annoying. As a recent joint study conducted by Microsoft and Northeastern University concluded: “the practice of running annoying ads can cost more money than it earns, as people are more likely to abandon sites on […]

Habituation to terrorism can actually have something of a useful function — by defusing the sense of vulnerability that acts of terror are designed to cause, habituation can prevent terrorism from being effective — but becoming acclimated to repeated violence also creates the sense that these are uncontrollable events for which there’s no clear solution, […]