In the Press Archive

Cleveland Facebook killing suspect likely sought ‘attention’: Criminologists

The seemingly irrational decision to broadcast footage of himself committing a heinous crime lines up with a familiar psychological profile, said James Alan Fox, a well-known criminologist who teaches at Northeastern University and has consulted on major murder investigations. “There are offenders who feel proud of their crimes, their conquests — and oftentimes they’re people […]

National Geographic

Bizarre deep-sea ‘worm’ as long as an arm revealed

Team leader Daniel Distel, a marine biologist at Northeastern University in Boston, plucked a specimen from the stink and packed it into a section of white PVC pipe, transporting it live several thousand miles to the lab of University of Utah medicinal chemist Margo Haygood. “Seeing Kuphus for the first time was a highlight of […]

Researchers drag horrifying new species of nightmare monster from lagoon

The researchers, led by Northeastern University’s Daniel Distel, have adventurous eaters to thank for the discovery: previous efforts to track down living Kuphus polythalamia in areas where shells had historically been found proved fruitless. The scientists knew the worms had to be out there—in the Philippines, their tusk-like shells were sold at top dollar to […]

Shipworm that feeds on gas found in Philippines lagoon

Although the giant shipworm was first categorized as a species more than 200 years ago, no living specimen had been examined by scientists and almost nothing had been known about it. That changed when Daniel Distel, a researcher at Northeastern University, and colleagues got their hands on a handful of the creatures during a research […]

Gizmodo

This alien-worm creature will haunt your nightmares

New species are discovered frequently, but this creature is unlike anything we’ve seen before. Called the giant shipworm, it lives inside a long shell where it consumes noxious chemicals at the bottom of muddy lagoons. An international team of scientists are now the first to study this elusive animal in the flesh, but after taking […]

Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’

“I’ve been studying shipworms since 1989 and in all that time I had never seen a living specimen of Kuphus polythalamia,” Daniel Distel, a co-author of the new study and the director of Northeastern University’s Ocean Genome Legacy Center, wrote in an email. “It was pretty spectacular to lift that tube out of its container […]

Great local reporting stands between you and wrongdoing. And it needs saving.

“Regional and local newspapers have been decimated,” Northeastern University’s Dan Kennedy wrote last week. Digital reporting outlets and local TV stations do good work but, as Kennedy noted, research has shown that “some 85 percent of accountability journalism is produced by newspapers.”

Inverse

The car hack scene in ‘Fate of the Furious’ will be possible IRL

Although hacking one car might not be outside the realm of reason, Cipher is seen controlling a whole fleet with the flick of her finger. That part may be a little more suspect. “While it is impossible to completely rule out anything in the security world, in my opinion, it would be highly unlikely for […]

Can Jerry Spatch teach you to rap?

If you are anything like me, then at some point in your life, probably after watching Eminem’s final battle scene in “8 Mile,” you’ve thought to yourself, “Dang, I wish I could rap.” Jerry Spatch, a 20-year-old Northeastern University student, thinks you can. And he wants to help you do it with his new game, […]

WFAE

Free speech claims enter abortion protests at Charlotte clinic

The long-running debate over abortion is expected to intensify during the Trump administration as both sides foresee changes on the Supreme Court, beginning with the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch. That debate over a woman’s right to choose plays out on a regular basis at an east Charlotte women’s reproductive health clinic, A Preferred Women’s Health […]

CIO

With robots on the job, it won’t be IT as usual

Companies will also need someone experienced in A.I., since it will be the smarts in autonomous machines. “Applications of machine learning in robotics is on the rise,” said Taskin Padir, an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, in Boston. “Each practical robot system will rely on some level of A.I. to […]

The cast is young, but ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ isn’t child’s play

Sam Mulcahy, the third-year Northeastern University student who is playing McMurphy, says he’s a little nervous about his performance being compared to Jack Nicholson’s Oscar-winning turn in the 1975 film, but Clark has encouraged him to make the role his own. “McMurphy has a primal rage that drives him, balanced by his outsized personality,” says […]

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Cleveland Facebook killing suspect likely sought ‘attention’: Criminologists

Bizarre deep-sea ‘worm’ as long as an arm revealed

Researchers drag horrifying new species of nightmare monster from lagoon

Shipworm that feeds on gas found in Philippines lagoon

This alien-worm creature will haunt your nightmares

Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’

Great local reporting stands between you and wrongdoing. And it needs saving.

The car hack scene in ‘Fate of the Furious’ will be possible IRL

Can Jerry Spatch teach you to rap?

Free speech claims enter abortion protests at Charlotte clinic

With robots on the job, it won’t be IT as usual

The cast is young, but ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ isn’t child’s play

Cleveland Facebook killing suspect likely sought ‘attention’: Criminologists

Bizarre deep-sea &#8216;worm&#8217; as long as an arm revealed

Researchers drag horrifying new species of nightmare monster from lagoon

Shipworm that feeds on gas found in Philippines lagoon

This alien-worm creature will haunt your nightmares

Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’

Great local reporting stands between you and wrongdoing. And it needs saving.

The car hack scene in ‘Fate of the Furious’ will be possible IRL

Can Jerry Spatch teach you to rap?

Free speech claims enter abortion protests at Charlotte clinic

With robots on the job, it won&#8217;t be IT as usual

The cast is young, but ‘Cuckoo’s Nest’ isn’t child’s play

Bizarre deep-sea ‘worm’ as long as an arm revealed

With robots on the job, it won’t be IT as usual