In short, the long and short of the sleeve trend is that there is no short of it. Nor is there any shortage of it. And it will be a long while before we see our hands again. According to Frances McSherry, fashion historian at Boston’s Northeastern University, there are many historical precedents for the […]

For every interview you have, when your interviewer comes to greet you, ensure that you look them in the eye. In a study by Northeastern University, “Those who consistently made eye contact while speaking were considered more intelligent than those who did not.” It’s good to practice making eye contact. Get used to looking directly […]

Researchers have demonstrated that a small molecule can transport iron in human cells and live animals when proteins that normally do the same job are missing, a condition that often causes severe anemia in patients. Such “molecular prosthetics” might treat a host of incurable diseases caused by protein deficiencies, such as anemias, cystic fibrosis or […]

Addiction specialists and public health officials on Thursday chided Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price for belittling the use of medications considered the standard of care for the treatment of opioid addiction. Methadone users have faced stigma for decades, and Price’s statement “goes against decades of evidence that has been extremely difficult to translate […]

A study conducted by the Model Alliance, a labor advocacy group for models, with researchers from Northeastern University and Harvard University found that 64.1 percent of a pool of models surveyed at New York’s Fashion Week had been asked to lose weight by their agencies, while 48.7 percent routinely fasted or restricted their diets to […]

A team from Northeastern University developed a new model to predict the spread of the flu in real time using Twitter. The researchers collected location data from more than 50 million tweets that contained words related to the flu, like coughing and vomiting. The data gave the researchers an idea of early flu activity around […]

Matthew Goodwin, PhD, an assistant professor at Northeastern University, tells Healthline that using data from wearable biosensors “can predict with about 79-80 percent accuracy based on the last three minutes of your physiology whether or not you are going to aggress to someone else or aggress to yourself” within the next minute. Goodwin presented his […]

Louisiana State University has asked its athletes not to wear the institution’s gear or use its “branding” if they share public opinions about the case of Alton Sterling, a black man whom Baton Rouge police fatally shot last year. Likely, LSU wanted to ensure athletes’ positions on the case wouldn’t be confused for the university’s, […]

On Tuesday, as part of Humane Lobby Day, animal advocates went to the State House to talk to legislators about animal welfare bills. One key provision they’re backing: a requirement that animal abuse be reported by human service agencies such as the Department of Children and Families, and that animal control officers report suspected abuse […]

Police say Saucedo killed nine people and carried out 12 shootings from August 2015 to July 2016, gunning down victims after dark as they stood outside their homes or sat in their cars. Most of the killings were in a diverse, mostly Latino neighborhood. Jack Levin, a retired professor of sociology and criminology at Northeastern […]

If it’s art, and it’s outdoors, Cedric Douglas either knows all about it — who made it, how it got there, and what it means — or he put it there himself. Last year, Douglas turned a bland wall at Northeastern University’s Behrakis Health Sciences Center into an explosion of colors and shapes, with a giant Tyrannosaurus rex at […]

An international team led by Alessandro Vespignani of Northeastern University has developed a unique computational model to project the spread of the seasonal flu in real time using Twitter. According to the researchers, posts on Twitter in combination with key parameters of each season’s epidemic, including the incubation period of the disease, the immunization rate, […]