“Ultimately, we need to move away from a chemical-by-chemical regulation and to a chemical class approach,” added Dr. Phil Brown from Northeastern University’s Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute which has been researching the social discovery of this contamination. “The narrow reach of this action also highlights the need for more comprehensive, precautionary chemical regulation […]

The trend in Massachusetts is in line with swings in economic activity in recent years, said Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economics professor at Northeastern University and senior contributing editor at MassBenchmarks. “Economists are getting to the point where they are almost expecting low growth rates in the first quarter,” he said, adding that this is usually […]

They ended up creating a gel-like patch using similar ingredients to the mucus. As Li and his colleagues write in the journal Science, the material successfully stuck to bloody, beating pig hearts. It patched holes in rat livers and didn’t cause damage to human cells. Li says it’s as good at sticking to organs as […]

“Building a living shoreline starts with a good understanding of what the natural condition along that shoreline once was,” says Steven Scyphers, a coastal scientist at Northeastern University. He adds that the process of creating a living shoreline might be as straightforward as restoring what once existed at the site — whether it’s oyster reefs, […]

But President Donald Trump has altered the calculus for litigants when it comes to arguments grounded in states’ rights. The expansion of federal rights is no longer seemingly inexorable. On the contrary, the opposite has become the signature of this administration. That means progressives may occasionally feel compelled to draw on states’ rights to play […]

But the fact that there’s any debate at all over whether the president can, in essence, declare himself above the law is owed to Alexander Hamilton’s push to grant the executive a sweeping set of powers. “Hamilton argued for a broad grant of power,” Martha Davis, a Constitutional law professor at Northeastern University, told Mic. “He […]

Daniel Faber is the director of the Northeastern University Environmental Justice Research Collaborative. With projected sea level rises for the area of anywhere between six and 15 feet, Faber says the risk for catastrophic failures at sites like Chelsea’s fuel storage tanks are high. “You’re looking at the flooding of some very significant areas of Chelsea and Boston, […]

Ieke DeVries’s summer is much more social than it was last year, now that she’s working in a lab. But she’s not studying one of the natural sciences, like most lab rats. De Vries is part of Northeastern University’s new Violence and Justice Research Laboratory, housed in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. “The physical […]

One recent change has MLB partnering with Northeastern University in Boston as the league’s preferred education provider. That’s part of moving players toward more traditional higher-ed opportunities. For more on that, we spoke with Derrick Hall, president and CEO of the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Legal scholars said it’s not clear whether the president can reimpose discrimination in a federal department. “There is a strong argument that substantively speaking the policy change would violate [the] law against sex discrimination,” said Libby Adler, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University’s School of Law. “It depends on what prohibitions against ‘sex’ discrimination […]

Make no mistake — Trump’s speech on Monday went well beyond the bounds of anodyne patriotism that has characterized remarks delivered to the scouts by past presidents from Franklin Roosevelt to Barack Obama. As he has repeatedly, Trump dwelled on his Electoral College victory map, which was “so red it was unbelievable.” He derided the […]

“Congress definitely should be considering the impact of the Obamacare repeal on job growth in health care,” said Gary Young, director of the Northeastern University Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research. “The question is does the repeal have a positive impact on job growth in other sectors of the economy?”