Massachusetts is likely to see stronger, though not robust, growth through the rest of the year, said Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economics professor at Northeastern University. “It’s temporary,” Clayton-Matthews said. “I would expect the pace to pick up.” In Massachusetts, the last and first quarter of a year may be more volatile due to fluctuations in […]

In science, youth is not the Holy Grail – despite what you might have heard about young geniuses. Laszlo Barabasi, a professor of network science at Northeastern University, says scientists may produce meaningful work earlier in their careers not because they’re smarter, but because they face more pressure to succeed.

It’s particularly vexing here because we’ve enjoyed a low unemployment rate — under 5 percent for close to two years — yet wages have not risen significantly. The low unemployment rate “makes a statement about how easy it is to get a job, but not what Mike Dukakis would say is a good job at […]

Puerto Rico will have a difficult time getting support for financial assistance from the White House, even with Lewandowski’s professional help, said Amilcar Antonio Barreto, a political scientist at Northeastern University in Boston who studies Puerto Rico. “What he’s signaling is that if you think I’m going to throw you a status or a financial […]

Zawahiri said the new approach would “weaken and drain the enemy,” and claimed that rebels are being targeted “because they are trying to establish an Islamic rule in Syria.” It’s unclear exactly what Zawahiri means by “guerrilla warfare” in this context, according to Max Abrahms, terrorism researcher and assistant professor of political science at Northeastern […]

The Boston police enlisted independent researchers to conduct a deeper study of the 2011 to 2015 data last year, but that won’t be complete at least until this summer because researchers want more information from police, said Anthony Braga, head of Northeastern University’s criminal justice school and a researcher on that study. He echoed the […]

Google the words “David Dworken” and you’ll find a picture of a teenager in an oversize gray suit shaking hands with former secretary of defense Ash Carter, along with a headline that reads: “Meet David Dworken, the Teenager Who Hacked the Pentagon.” At the time of the Pentagon event he was a computer whiz on […]

Just as life, for many, now takes place both online and in the physical world, so too does death. Social media has brought back the kind of public grieving often seen in ancient Greece—open performances of sadness that bring people together for communal mourning. And a new study shows that the connections made online after […]

At Northeastern University, a sacred space, a reflection room and an area for ablution, private prayer and meditation were literally built on the ashes of the university’s tradition Bacon Memorial Chapel, which burned in the 1990s. Designed by architects Monica Ponce de Leon and Nader Tehrani and opened in 1998, the area was designed to […]

Last spring, analyses of five years of data revealed clear racial disparities in Vermont State Police traffic stops. But after conversations with the troopers whose stops showed the greatest disparities, state police officials say they’ve found no instances of implicit or explicit racial bias. The conclusion illustrates the challenge of pinpointing the problem, and advocates […]

Budget time at the State House, and lawmakers and their staffs are working late to hammer out next year’s state spending plan. To fuel the late-night negotiations, taxpayers are picking up the tab for lots of food. As 5 Investigates’ Mike Beaudet and Northeastern University School of Journalism found out, we may never know what […]

Boston rapper Jerry Spatch created a new card game that can turn you into a freestyle rapper. Spatch is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for Vers: The Rap Game, a card game featuring 400 category and base rhyme cards that allow players to freestyle with the combined concepts. Spatch, an entrepreneurship student at Northeastern University, […]