Researchers from Northeastern University are studying the effect of the cameras on police-community relations, use of force, arrests, and other areas, officials previously said.

The problem is antibiotic resistance: Infectious diseases are outpacing the ability of current drugs to fight them. Part of the challenge is in finding new antibiotic sources. Most current antibiotics come from bacteria found in the soil, but Kim Lewis, who directs Northeastern University’s Antimicrobial Discovery Center, says only about 1 percent of soil microbes […]

Nonetheless the number of women in the industry remains small, with fewer than one in 20 hedge funds employing a female portfolio manager, according to a 2015 study by Boston’s Northeastern University. By contrast, one in five mutual funds employ a female portfolio manager, according to Morningstar, the data provider.

But can a judge or jurors infer a defendant’s emotions reliably, as Justice Kennedy implied? Is it possible, as this theory holds, to detect remorse — or any other emotion — just by looking and listening? Some scientists believe so. A famous experimental paradigm called “mind in the eyes” purports to demonstrate this ability. You […]

It’s also familiar to researchers who study the psychological effects of technology. It doesn’t really have a name, but texting has a very powerful effect on the brain. “When it’s uncertain whether someone likes you, dislikes you, or means you harm, your brain just can’t help but treat it like something important,” says Northeastern University […]

The ongoing political and legal controversy over President Donald Trump’s revised executive order banning visitors from six Muslim-majority countries is the latest flashpoint in what has become one of the great moral conundrums of our time: What to do about the refugees of the Syrian Civil War?

Rachel Rosenbloom, a Northeastern University law professor who specializes in immigration policy, said it makes sense for attorneys general to concentrate their efforts on the lawsuit in Seattle, because the restraining order Robart issued applied nationwide. She added that “there’s nothing unusual with states joining together to challenge a federal policy,” noting several states joined […]

One widely shared study from last fall, conducted in part by researchers at Harvard and Northeastern, suggested that people with a greater number of Facebook friends were less likely to die than less sociable counterparts. But those same results revealed another surprise: The Facebook behaviors most closely associated with reduced mortality seemed to involve activity […]

If the leaked documents are verified, it could have major security implications for Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, and all other tech companies. However, it’s not exactly a surprise that these devices are able to be hacked, said Engin Kirda, professor of computer science at Northeastern University. “In the computer security world, it is widely known that […]

In her new book, How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Barrett – a psychology professor at Northeastern University and psychiatry lecturer at Harvard Medical School, argues that the brain is not a system of separate parts – with an amygdala serving as the brain’s 911 operator, while the […]

“As you harden the land border you open up the maritime border,” argued Stephen Flynn, a retired Coast Guard commander who is director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University. “It makes no sense. You are going to have this balloon effect.” The budget numbers POLITICO reviewed are an opening salvo, and agencies are […]

This plan could also undermine border security itself, considering that the Coast Guard intercepted thousands of undocumented migrants last year. “As you harden the land border you open up the maritime border,” Stephen Flynn, a retired Coast Guard commander and director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University, told Politico. “It makes no sense.”