“We clearly need to make this move and transition away from our dependence upon fuels from hell – coal, oil and gas – to a new economy based upon fuels from heaven, solar and wind in particular,” said Northeastern University professor Daniel Faber, director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative.

Can a robot read your emotions? Apple, Google, Facebook and other technology companies seem to think so. They are collectively spending billions of dollars to build emotion-reading devices that can interact meaningfully (and profitably) with humans using artificial intelligence. These companies are banking on a belief about emotions that has held sway for more than […]

Like it or not, men are more likely to invest in companies pitched by men than women. It’s called homophily. People of the same gender, race and/or ethnic group tend to associate and bond with each other. Homophily isn’t the only reason men get more funding than women. Behavior also plays into the likelihood of […]

President Trump came out with a strong response this afternoon to yesterday’s suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, which reportedly killed more than 100, including many children. Standing in the Rose Garden alongside King Abdullah of Jordan, the president said that the attack crossed a line. Guest: Max Abrahms, professor of political science at Northeastern […]

Leo Beletsky, an associate professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University outlined the legal options for the medical society. “It does take some measure of discretion to allow such experimentation to proceed, but it is possible,” Beletsky says.

“The threat of court intervention remains a serious obstacle to the Abe administration’s goal of full nuclear restarts,” Daniel Aldrich, director of the Security and Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University in Boston, said by email. “A number of local courts, including those involved in the Takahama case, have been sympathetic to arguments from local […]

With so much division in the country and on the news, life can seem a bit unkind. Rahul Mehta wants to change that — even if in a small way — by pointing out and reporting on moments of kindness around his Northeastern University campus and the surrounding Boston area. But this is not a […]

And it’s not just ethnic restaurants that have sprung from the entrepreneurial imagination of Caribbean immigrants.  Across the state there are also small Caribbean-owned construction and moving companies, barber and auto-repair shops and doctors and dentists with their own practices. Economist and Northeastern University professor Barry Bluestone said that is par for course. “Our research […]

Lawrence and the city of Chelsea are trying to block President Trump’s executive order and have filed a lawsuit that argues they are not violating any federal immigration laws with their policing policies. It also calls the executive order unconstitutional. Rachel Rosenbloom, an immigration law professor at Northeastern University agrees. “So the question is, does […]

Amid uncertainty around the future flow of federal research dollars, Northeastern University celebrated the grand opening of its new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex on Monday, pointing to the $225 million facility as evidence of the school’s growing ambition and its commitment to scientific advances in Massachusetts. “This complex is a statement that this city, […]

Northeastern University touted the grand opening of its new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex on Monday, pointing to the $225 million facility as commitment to scientific advances and innovation in Massachusetts. U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III and Boston Mayor Martin Walsh joined Northeastern President Joseph Aoun to officially […]

Hundreds of volunteers worked through the weekend’s rain, sleet, and snow to build a Dorchester playground that was dedicated in Sunday’s bright sunshine to honor a Boston Marathon bombing survivor who died in a car crash a year ago. Victoria McGrath’s parents, Jim and Jill McGrath, proudly told a gathering at the playground on Deer […]