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Map Shows 11 States Where Older Americans Outnumber Children

Explaining why these states have more older adults than children, Mindy Marks, a professor of economics at Northeastern University, Massachusetts, told Newsweek “one reason is immigration,” or more precisely, a lack of it.
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That Chatbot May Just Be Telling You What You Want to Hear

Malihe Alikhani, an assistant professor of artificial intelligence at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences and a visiting fellow at the Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institution, has been studying this phenomenon and investigating what happens when large language models parrot human inputs too eagerly.
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Axolotls Can Regenerate Limbs, and Scientists Are Finally Learning How

As Wired’s Ana Lagos reported, James Monaghan’s lab at Northeastern University has been probing the axolotl’s freakish regenerative talents, hoping to uncover secrets that could revolutionize human medicine and maybe even one day become walking, talking Ships of Theseus.
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Scientists want to regrow human limbs. Salamanders could lead the way.

Salamanders famously have the ability to regrow their limbs, but “one of the outstanding questions that has really plagued the field is how a salamander knows what to grow,” said James Monaghan, a Northeastern University biologist, to The Washington Post.
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A grim series of deaths across New England has sparked fears of a serial killer. Here’s what the authorities say.

In fact, the far-reaching geography makes a serial killer theory less likely, according to James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.
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Business Optimism Collapses Under Trump

Peter Simon, professor at Northeastern University’s Department of Economics, told Newsweek that economic uncertainty “is still a big issue in the world given the new war between Israel and Iran and especially now that the US is involved.”
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io vs. iyO: The way your company sounds really does matter

“Trademark infringement has been found in plenty of cases in which defendant’s mark is spelled differently from plaintiff’s but pronounced the same, even when the two terms have different meanings,” Alexandra Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University tells Fast Company. 
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Trump used Juneteenth to denounce ‘nonworking holidays.’ Some political observers say it wasn’t a coincidence

Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University, said making Juneteenth a federal holiday gave it fresh significance to the US.

Orcas spotted using seaweed to groom each other

In an effort to learn more about their social behavior and foraging techniques, a team from the Center for Whale Research in Washington, Northeastern University in Boston, and the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom used aerial surveys with some new helpful technology. 
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A new Roblox study shows how longer suspensions help curb bad behavior on the platform

Researchers at Northeastern University and Roblox conducted two large-scale field experiments involving more than 770,000 Roblox users to study how suspension duration affects user behavior.
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Axolotls can regenerate their limbs: could they one day help us do the same?

This paper gives us insight into how a limb knows to regenerate , something that has long been a mystery in the field,” says James Monaghan , a professor of biology at Northeastern University in Boston and senior author on the paper. 
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Why Mass. has one of the largest systems of involuntarily committing people for substance use disorder treatment

Massachusetts has one of the largest systems of involuntarily committing people for substance use-disorder treatment. That’s according to Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health science at Northeastern University who served on the state’s Section 35 Commission.