While women working in STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — may struggle for inclusion in the United States, they increasingly are finding opportunities through international collaborations. Kathrin S. Zippel documents the phenomenon in Women in Global Science: Advancing Academic Careers Through International Collaboration (Stanford University Press, 2017). Ms. Zippel, an associate professor […]

Mai’a Cross, an expert on European politics at Northeastern University in Boston, said she believes the vote for Le Pen will collapse and Macron will win the second round by a large majority. “There has been a lot of hype about Le Pen, which has emerged mainly in the context of Trump’s win and Brexit, […]

The healthcare system​ still cannot acknowledge that physicians are trained to be independent, self-confident decisionmakers, often asked to act in the midst of high clinical uncertainty. The payment schemes placed on them now clash with this reality, mostly by producing the daily work environments described above, as does becoming salaried employees in organizations that dictate […]

However, at a time when an opioid epidemic has killed or harmed tens of thousands, more muscular law-enforcement policies would likely impede public-health efforts, Leo Beletsky, a public-health and drug policy expert at Northeastern University, told the BBC. “The tactics they’re talking about would just fuel the crisis,” he said.

This week’s March for Science on Earth Day is also drawing attention to the importance of international collaboration for scientific advancement. The organizers are calling people to “defend the vital role science plays in our health, safety, economies, and governments.” These protests are expected in hundreds of cities worldwide, showing that science and academia cannot […]

Although employers added more than 10,000 jobs in both January and February, the staggeringly low March number may indicate that the job market isn’t as robust as it may seem. But Alan Clayton-Matthews, an economist at Northeastern University, said: “You can’t read too much into one month. “It could be that some of the people […]

Philip Anderson, a professor at Northeastern University whose research helped shape the Department of Homeland Security, said he’s surprised about the state of Amtrak police radios. “If you have to revert to a landline to engage other law enforcement agencies in the face of a disruptive event in Penn Station, you got a problem,” he […]

“My freshman microbiology professor liked to say, ‘If it wasn’t for shipworms, we’d be speaking Spanish today,’ ” Daniel Distel, a marine biologist and the director of the Ocean Genome Legacy Center, at Northeastern University, told me recently. Distel is a shipworm scientist, and earlier this week he and an international team of colleagues announced […]

Northeastern University entrepreneurship student Jerry Spatch has invented a new game that might help novice rappers perfect their flow. Vers, a freestyle rap card game, is giving people the tools to turn any gathering into a cypher. Spatch says that his experience freestyling with friends at college parties is what inspired him to create the […]

Richard Melloni Jr., a psychology professor and director of behavioral neuroscience at Northeastern University, said he was struck by video showing Hernandez’s rare display of tears last week when he was acquitted in the double murders. “Maybe his emotion was a sign of depression that was starting to rear its head,” said Melloni, who was […]

When it comes to weighing morally reprehensible behavior, winning matters way too much. “Winning has superseded everything else, to the point where we’ve lost the moral rudder,” says Dan Lebowitz, executive director of the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University.

The new findings by researchers at Harvard University, Northeastern University, and Johns Hopkins University are the latest in a set of studies that are painting the most definitive portrait of American gun ownership in two decades. The authors asked nearly 4,000 respondents whether they thought people should be allowed to bring firearms into nine public […]