No, the still-unfolding catastrophe in Texas could not have been prevented. But vital investigative reporting over the past year and a half shows how it might have been more manageable if government officials had taken heed. More important, the journalists’ findings lay out a path forward that should be carefully studied once the waters begin to subside.

Bail reform has emerged as a hot topic in recent years, and last Friday the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court weighed in, issuing a bold opinion that will change some key features of bail practices in the state. Morning Edition’s Joe Mathieu talked with WGBH Legal Analyst and Northeastern Law Professor Daniel Medwed about that case […]

What is the leading common denominator among this diverse group of code-camp applicants? It may be a college degree. The camps we spoke with self-reported between 66 percent (on the low end) to 80 percent (on the high end) of their students having college degrees. Not surprisingly, some of the top colleges and universities in […]

Paradigm Hyperloop’s 20-foot-long pod was the only finalist to rely on air bearings, using onboard air tanks to create a cushion of air for its pod to float on—think of an upside-down air hockey table. (This was the solution that Musk first proposed in 2013.) “It cuts the coefficient of friction, so we can move […]

Remind yourself that, as painful as those battles are, they teach important life skills, such as seeing from another person’s perspective, communicating effectively and resolving conflicts, says Laurie Kramer, a professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University. These are all things that will better equip them to make friendships and navigate romantic relationships as they […]

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.

“We know that spending money before a disaster is always more effective than spending it afterwards,” says Daniel Aldrich, director of the Security and Resilience Program at Northeastern University in Boston. “For every one dollar spent before a disaster, you save four to seven dollars after the disaster.”

At Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies, all professional programs are also online for greater flexibility, and most have multiple start dates each year, says Chris Mallett, vice president of online experiential learning at Northeastern.

Leo Beletsky, a drug policy researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, said that evolution is a predictable outcome of the “iron law of prohibition,” which holds that any banned substance will become more concentrated to maximize its financial return. “It takes a lot of effort to produce heroin,” he said. “It takes much less effort […]

And as in Katrina, Houston’s most vulnerable populations have borne the brunt of the flooding, and will likely continue to struggle in the recovery phase, says Northeastern University political scientist Daniel Aldrich, who found stark socioeconomic divides in how FEMA trailers were situated after Katrina.

Throughout the South, there are more than a thousand streets named after Confederate leaders. A map from historian Caroline Klibanoff shows them by state, side by side with streets named for civil rights leaders. “I’m from the South, from Atlanta, originally,” says Klibanoff, digital public historian at Northeastern University. “I’m a historian, and I’m very […]

The contest was simple in one way – the fastest pod would win. The second place team was Paradigm, a North American team with members from Northeastern University in Boston and Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada.