Kim Lewis directs the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University in Massachusetts. He wrote a commentary about the discovery in Nature Microbiology. “So if you have lugdunin in your nose, chances are you are not going to be carrying staph aureus. So that was the initial finding of that study.” Just like animals in the […]

Authorities have been tight-lipped about the evidence they have, but DNA from the gunman would be almost impossible to recover from the crime scenes unless the shooter touched one of the victims or left behind an object, said Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. The first shooting happened in a neighborhood several […]

Will Donald Trump try to weasel out of the presidential debates? On the one hand, he has verbally committed to three joint appearances with Hillary Clinton this fall. On the other, he seeks to renegotiate the terms under which the matches will take place. At some point, and soon, Trump will have to decide which […]

Many of us tend to see Israel in terms of its unique attributes – perhaps as the legitimate homeland of the Jewish people or as the target of more than 70 United Nations resolutions. Yet in terms of the way that residents there handle intransigent bureaucracies and slow-to-change norms, Israel is no different from other […]

Andrea Matwyshyn, a professor at Northeastern University Law School, and David Greene, Civil Liberties director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, discuss Twitter’s Wednesday victory after a federal judge ruled that the social media platform cannot be held responsible for the Islamic State’s use of the network to spread propaganda. Twitter claims that it’s already suspended […]

Sarah Jackson, a professor at Northeastern University who studies political movements, explained the cycle to me this way in 2014: first, people who knew the victim or witnessed the fatal encounter turn that victim’s name into a hashtag. Then the story spreads to local activists and news outlets. Finally, the story lands on the radars […]

The campuses of Northeastern University and Berklee College of Music are jammed together in the Fenway like roomies sharing a too-small dorm room. It was in a Northeastern dorm in 1999 that freshman Shawn Fanning launched a digital file-sharing service called Napster, which could make any piece of recorded music instantly accessible, for free. Seventeen […]

“Here we are we see a murder that may never happen again in this town. It’s such a weird case that it’s hard to understand,” Northeastern University Criminologist Jack Levin said.

“The truth is, stranger abductions are rare,” says James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University, citing a 2014 FBI report noting that 332 went missing in 2014. Research by David Finkelhor, Director of the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, finds that in fact the number of missing children […]

In recent months, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and members of his administration have come under scrutiny for allegedly pressuring city contractors to hire union labor.  That scrutiny has yielded two indictments so far, with the possibility of more to come. Specifically, two city officials face federal criminal charges related to suspicions they forced a music […]

More is at work here than just the rise of online shopping, says Barry Bluestone, a political economist at Northeastern University. He studied the first movement away from department stores and into discount stores in the 1970s, and he says the cause now is the same: a declining middle class. “Retail trade is going to […]

While everyone’s focus has been stuck on Rio, one Northeastern team grabbed the gold in an entirely different spot: the University Powerlifting World Cup in Belarus. The women’s powerlifting club, which started only six years ago and had never before competed internationally, showed its strength in squats, benching, and deadlifts. Five of the seven women who competed won […]