“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.

Foldit, developed by computer scientists at the University of Washington and Northeastern University, has been used successfully in health research before. In 2011, it took Foldit users three weeks to discover the structure of an enzyme that helps the AIDS virus reproduce, paving the way for potential new treatments. It was a problem that had […]

According to the Baseball Rule, ballpark owners need only provide screening behind home plate, with enough room for fans who choose to sit there. Anyone outside the screened area — along the baselines, behind the dugout or in the outfield — is considered to have assumed the risk of injury from foul balls, errant throws […]

A seven-year old boy died Saturday after an attack by two pit bulls in Lowell. Although the investigation is ongoing, authorities say the boy entered a fenced-in area where the pit bulls were located, and he was killed before the police arrived. One of the dogs was euthanized, and the other remains with animal control. […]

Academic research has also found that women who start companies have a tougher time getting loans, and that bank officers used different criteria for them. A 2014 study by professors at Northeastern University and Babson College found that women received smaller loan amounts than men whose companies had similar characteristics like past performance and number […]

According to scientists such as the psychologist Lisa Feldman Barrett, a professor at Northeastern University, it is becoming increasingly clear that our emotions vary widely depending on the culture we’re raised in. They even vary widely within an individual in different situations. In fact, though we share the general feelings that make up what’s known […]

Massachusetts ranks number one nationally in STEM graduates and generates 56 percent more bachelor degrees in computer science and engineering per capita than the rest of the U.S. combined. Harvard, Northeastern, and Boston College are now offering degree programs specific to cybersecurity, helping to train our next line of defense.

The study — the first of its kind in 20 years — was conducted by the University of Washington School of Public Health, the University of Colorado, the Harvard School of Public Health and Northeastern University. The researchers surveyed the carrying habits of 1,444 handgun owners. One in four reported carrying a loaded gun in […]

Perhaps even more stunning was that men and blue-state residents saw more than double the number of pro-Clinton articles than women and people living in red states, Mr. Epstein, of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology, and Robert E. Robertson, a professor at Northeastern University, argued in a report this year.

That is to say, the tweets accomplished what the Kremlin’s Soviet predecessors, who wooed their own American reporters, could have only hoped to accomplish. Counted by outlets alone, the fake social media operations appear the most pervasive foreign propaganda efforts in recent history – even if their efficacy remains unclear. “The internet is such a […]