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Amazon has started selling AI video ads. What does this mean for digital marketing?

Northeastern University professor Koen Pauwels, who worked with Amazon ads, said he’s less worried about the melting faces and extra fingers that often showed up in early AI videos, and more about them becoming forgettable.
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Glow-in-the-dark axolotls reveal a clue in the mystery of limb regeneration

“A longstanding question in the field has been, what are the cues that tell cells at the injury site to grow back just the hand, for example, or to grow back an entire arm,” said senior study author James Monaghan, a professor of biology and director of the Institute for Chemical Imaging of Living Systems […]
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Axolotls may hold secret to regrowing human limbs

Axolotls have captured attention for their cuteness, but new research from Northeastern University shows the smiling salamanders could advance scientific goals to regrow human limbs.
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Axolotls May Hold the Key to Regrowing Limbs, and Scientists Are Unraveling Their Secrets to Help Humans Do the Same

“This species is special,” says lead author James Monaghan, a biologist at Northeastern University, to Dino Grandoni at the Washington Post. The amphibians have “really become the champion of some extreme abilities that animals have.”
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Life in Jane Austen’s Goshen

By Caleb Gayle a professor at Northeastern University.
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Judge in 2024 Election Results Lawsuit Sets Timeline

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, previously told Newsweek: “Statistical irregularities in elections should always be investigated, but the sources of such inconsistencies, which can include error or miscalculation, are not always nefarious. Still, scrutinizing election results can strengthen confidence in elections. Mistakes can happen.
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Los Angeles clash: Information war favoring Trump: risk of exaggeration created by social media

Laura Edelson, an associate professor at Northeastern University, points out, “Trump is trying to shape public opinion by portraying protesters as lawless and illegal immigrants as dangerous, and the Waymo footage just reinforces that message at a time when public opinion is so volatile.”
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If you always ask yourself these five ‘powerful’ questions, you’re more mentally strong than most

By Amy Morin, a psychotherapist, clinical social worker and instructor at Northeastern University. 

“Octopus Maps” Promote Conspiratorial Thinking Even When It Is Unintended

During their new study of this form of depiction, researchers at Northeastern University explored historical examples of octopus maps as well as conducting an empirical study of their visual and structural form, and their overall rhetorical function. 
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What Swift fan accounts should know about copyright after Barstool’s ‘Taylor Watch’ canceled

It’s a perfect question for David Herlihy, an intellectual property, new media and entertainment lawyer who also teaches at Northeastern University in Boston. =
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Why is ABC’s firing of Terry Moran roiling journalists?

ABC was “right to suspend Moran” but “wrong to get rid of him,” said Northeastern University journalism Professor Dan Kennedy in his Media Nation newsletter.
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There could be fewer summer jobs available for teenagers this year

“This is what teaches good work habits,” said Alicia Modestino, a professor of public policy at Northeastern University.