Matt Larson, a litigation analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, and Andrea Matwyswhyn, a professor at Northeastern University, discuss a lawsuit between Apple and Qualcomm over Qualcomm’s pricing structure. They speak with June Grasso and Michael Best on Bloomberg Radio’s “Bloomberg Law.”

Evidence supporting this link has existed for decades. In one oft-cited study, researchers from Northeastern University and the Massachusetts SPCA documented that people who abuse animals are five times more likely to commit violent crime. But this concept is nothing new, and indeed is one that we have understood for centuries.

The election of Donald Trump has changed the nature of the political debate in America, and that applies with perhaps greater force to young people. As my former boss Michael Dukakis, who has been teaching at Northeastern University for many years, recently wrote to me: “Trump in an interesting kind of way has really turned […]

Three Northeastern University graduates founded Elsen in 2014 and the fintech company participated in the Boston-based nonprofit accelerator FinTech Sandbox in 2015. Elsen has raised $750,000 from Hyperplane Venture Capital, serial entrepreneur Bret Siarkowski, and an Accomplice-affiliated syndicate of angel investors. Zac Sheffer, co-founder and CEO of Elsen, said he saw the need for a […]

Few reporters have ever had the kind of year that David Fahrenthold experienced in 2016. From exposing the Trump Foundation’s bogus and illegal practices to unearthing a tape on which then-candidate Donald Trump could be heard crudely boasting about sexual assault, Fahrenthold single-handedly defined large swaths of the presidential campaign.

“Certainly, the preliminary signal we’ve gotten from the administration … is an attitude of taking a much more law enforcement-based approach to drugs,” Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s programme on Health Policy and Law, told Al Jazeera. “We need a more holistic science-based approach. If the response is a look-tough-and-get-tough-approach, I’m worried that that […]

Gun owners who carry guns outside their homes, stash them in their cars – or simply own lots of them – are more likely to have their guns stolen, according to a study published Monday in the journal Injury Epidemiology. The study, by leading public health researchers at Harvard and Northeastern universities, is the first […]

In fact, while Massachusetts is known for its ambitious environmental policies, Daniel Faber, an environmental justice researcher at Northeastern University and director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative, has found that the Commonwealth has some of the most dramatic inequities of any state in the U.S. Communities of color bear twenty times the environmental […]

People value their health. It allows them to pursue their aims and enjoy their lives, and it contributes to their well-being. But health is not only good for particular healthy individuals. It is also good for their families, communities, nations, and in a world in which people flows are global, health is good for the […]

MassDOT will be replacing the half-century-old Commonwealth Avenue Bridge at Boston University in July. The agency deemed the bridge “structurally deficient,” and will be accelerating its repair project on it this summer, beginning July 26. But instead of taking months to repair the bridge, MassDOT plans to complete phase one of the project in just […]

Although a year may have 525,600 minutes, on Tuesday night, f­­or about 60 minutes, you can hear all about how to measure a year in the life on the streets of Boston. To celebrate the show’s 20th-anniversary tour, and the eighth Boston engagement of the Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent, a dozen singers […]

I am known for being hard to read, to the point that friends complain that they can never tell what I’m thinking by looking at my face. But, says neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, it’s possible that they might remain confused even if my face were more expressive. Barrett, a neuroscientist at Northeastern University, is the […]