Though airline crews are trained to handle onboard emergencies, battery fires can be complicated, difficult, and dangerous to cope with. A Li-ion battery contains volatile chemicals separated by a permeable membrane, explains K.M. Abraham, a professor at Northeastern University and a pioneer in Li-ion battery design. If that membrane is compromised—whether because of a defect […]

It may seem that the June 8 general election in the United Kingdom puts Britain’s exit from the European Union on solid democratic ground. In fact, however, this is only the latest stage in a deeply problematic saga that has been anything but democratic.

In Massachusetts, a young woman is on trial for involuntary manslaughter, accused of using text messages to push her boyfriend to take his own life. NBC’s Morgan Radford reports for TODAY from Taunton, Massachusetts and speaks with Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University’s School of Law.

In the midst of the worst financial calamity since the Great Depression for the island, Puerto Rico’s government is moving ahead with yet another plebiscite on its state status question. While most observers will focus on how Puerto Ricans voted, Amilcar Barreto, an associate professor at the Department of Cultures, Societies and Global Studies at […]

Dan Kennedy, a Northeastern University journalism professor, said most sources of leaked information understand they will eventually face consequences. Reality Winner “does have an argument to make that what she did was in the public interest, but I don’t know if she can convince a jury of that,” Kennedy said.

Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economics and public policy professor at Northeastern University, said that when it comes to Massachusetts’ future tax revenues, there’s a huge amount of uncertainty. Much of it has to do with “what investors are doing with disposing of their assets or keeping them in anticipation of a favorable tax-law change,” said the […]

Michelle Carter has been charged as a youthful offender in Bristol Juvenile Court and if convicted faces up to 20 years in prison. But criminal justice specialists predict that prosecutors will have a difficult time proving that Carter caused Roy’s death. “Most involuntary manslaughter cases involve physical action, but her words and text messages provided […]

Massachusetts is taking center stage in the debate over the criminalization of assisted suicide. Today marks the start of the involuntary manslaughter trial of Michelle Carter, whose chilling text messages three years ago arguably prompted her friend Conrad Roy III to kill himself. Also, late last week a trial court judge ruled that retired doctor […]

As CEO of a Boston-based technology company and as a professor who studies the Massachusetts economy, we know that our Commonwealth’s greatest strength is that we have the best educated workforce in America. However, our ability to grow is severely limited because we still have fewer educated workers than we need. Recent studies of the […]

Curiously, the president’s Twitter feed offers nothing at all about Monday’s mass murder at an Orlando factory at the hands of a disgruntled ex-employee who had been fired from his job back in April, in part because of an altercation with a co-worker. That co-worker was one of the five employees of the Fiamma Inc. […]

Michelle Carter wasn’t with Conrad Roy when he committed suicide, but she is facing up to 20 years in prison for his death over several text message. Daniel Medwed, professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University’s School of Law, offers insight.

Daniel Medwed, a law and criminal justice professor at Northeastern University, said Carter’s text messages arguably encouraged Roy. What prosecutors will have to prove this week is whether Carter’s encouragement resulted in his death. “Prosecutors will have to prove that Carter causes Conrad Roy to kill himself and essentially caused his death,” Medwed told The […]