Michelle Carter was convicted of manslaughter in June for convincing her friend Conrad Roy, largely through text messages, to kill himself by carbon monoxide poisoning. On Thursday, she will have her sentencing hearing. Northeastern law professor Daniel Medwed discussed the sentencing process on Tuesday with “Morning Edition.”

When you find tokens of appreciation for your day, your decision making improves along with your performance across the board. In fact, researchers at Northeastern University found that individuals who felt more grateful were able to demonstrate greater patience and delay making rash decisions which have big implications when it comes to your bottom line.

Outside of New England, football fans are incredulous. Most feel that we have the worst, most immoral team in the history of any sport and that, on any given day, the Patriots will break rules and ruthlessly cheat their way to victory. Professor David DeSteno of Northeastern University, a social psychologist who has written extensively […]

Police have said two of the incidents are connected, and some have been random. Home invasions generally involve assailants who are searching for firearms, drugs, or money, and are specifically targeting their victims, though at least one of the recent incidents may have been a case of mistaken identity. “[Home invasions] revolve around the perception […]

“This process of voting for a Constituent Assembly has been totally unconstitutional and illegal,” said Leonardo Vivas, a lecturer on Latin America at Northeastern University in Boston, and the former director of the Latin America Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights.

“The chances of him getting away with a self-pardon are really low,” Martha Davis, a Northeastern University law professor, told the Daily News. “To not take a stand against that would allow the presidency to become a monarchy.”

If you have been trying to buy a home in Massachusetts lately, you have probably noticed that housing supply is low throughout the state — pushing the median price of a single-family home to new highs. It’s now $400,000, according to the Massachusetts Association of Realtors — a nearly 8 percent increase from the same […]

Research by John Kwoka of Northeastern University, for example, has found that three-quarters of mergers have resulted in price increases without any offsetting benefits. Kwoka cited industries such as airlines, hotels, car rentals, cable television and eyeglasses.

“Ultimately, we need to move away from a chemical-by-chemical regulation and to a chemical class approach,” added Dr. Phil Brown from Northeastern University’s Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute which has been researching the social discovery of this contamination. “The narrow reach of this action also highlights the need for more comprehensive, precautionary chemical regulation […]

The trend in Massachusetts is in line with swings in economic activity in recent years, said Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economics professor at Northeastern University and senior contributing editor at MassBenchmarks. “Economists are getting to the point where they are almost expecting low growth rates in the first quarter,” he said, adding that this is usually […]

They ended up creating a gel-like patch using similar ingredients to the mucus. As Li and his colleagues write in the journal Science, the material successfully stuck to bloody, beating pig hearts. It patched holes in rat livers and didn’t cause damage to human cells. Li says it’s as good at sticking to organs as […]

“Building a living shoreline starts with a good understanding of what the natural condition along that shoreline once was,” says Steven Scyphers, a coastal scientist at Northeastern University. He adds that the process of creating a living shoreline might be as straightforward as restoring what once existed at the site — whether it’s oyster reefs, […]