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This Common Way Of Loading Your Fridge Could Be Ruining Your Groceries

“Likely to warm foods include ready-to-eat foods (deli meats, leftovers, cut fruit), eggs and dairy stored far from vents are most vulnerable,” Darin Detwiler, professor of food policy at Northeastern University, said.
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No, Your iPhone Isn’t Listening to You. Here’s What’s Really Happening

Independent researchers have gone looking for covert “listening” and found none, including a definitive 2018 Northeastern University study that has yet to be superseded. What they did catch in a handful of cases were screen recordings or image and video uploads to third parties. Creepy, sure, but not a hot mic.
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Subdued decision in Google antitrust trial may help keep a monopoly in power

“It is a historic misfire that fails to meet the enormity of the finding that Google is a monopolist in online search,” said Christo Wilson, a Northeastern University computer sciences professor, who has studied Google’s operations.
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Why companies are turning to short-term borrowing

“It kind of provides a low-cost, instantaneous almost, cash infusion,” said John Bai, a finance professor at Northeastern University. He said commercial paper typically matures in months. Or even days.
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Map Shows Thousands More Areas Where Groundwater Could Be Contaminated

“Nixon wanted to expand presidential power but he complied because the other branches pushed back,” said Daniel Urman, a constitutional-law scholar at Northeastern University.
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Map Shows Thousands More Areas Where Groundwater Could Be Contaminated

Features research on PFAS chemicals by Phil Brown.

“I Never Thought I’d Get To See A Blue Lobster In Person”: Meet Neptune, He’s 1-In-2-Million

Neptune has a rare genetic anomaly that overproduces crustacyanin, turning his exoskeleton electric blue. The genetic anomaly behind it is thought to occur in one in 2 million lobsters, making him very flashy indeed. So much so that even the lobster experts were excited when Myslinski donated him to Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center.
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“Octopus maps”: when graphics inspire conspiracy theories (even today)

In past maps, many nations have been depicted as the marine animal, symbolizing a threat. But, according to a study from Northeastern University, you don’t have to be that explicit to spark a conspiracy theory.
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Audit of Mass. gambling regulator finds sports betting ads were sent to youths and people affected by addiction

“The finding that the Commission failed to take a proactive role monitoring sports gambling advertising in the critical first months of Massachusetts sports betting is a cause for deep concern,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University. “Potentially dangerous consumer products demand a robust regulatory oversight that was absent […]
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Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon

First, says Wendy Parmet, a health policy professor at Northeastern University, governors can scale up clinic systems to make it easier for people to get vaccines, should Trump’s government keep making that harder.
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Can RFK Jr. take COVID vaccines off the market? Here’s what vaccine law experts say

Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University law school’s Center for Health Policy and Law, said that if the vaccine manufacturers contested a license revocation, she expected they would have a strong case, given the reams of vaccine safety data and post-market studies of COVID-19 vaccine use around the world.
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A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in.

Chatbots, of course, are not the only source of information and advice on self-harm, as searching the internet makes abundantly clear. The difference with chatbots, said Annika Schoene, an AI safety researcher at Northeastern University, is the “level of personalization and speed” that chatbots offer.