We really don’t have a good handle on how expensive these resurrection programs might be, since are are lots of unaccounted-for costs we don’t need to think about when we protect existing species wrote Ronald Sandler, a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Northeastern University, in a Nature commentary. Those costs includes new technology, the […]

Lastly, there are moral arguments for and against de-extinction that no study can quantify. In a commentary that accompanies the paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution, Ronald Sandler, an ethics professor at Northeastern University, notes that the most prominent arguments in favor of de-extinction aren’t focused on a cost-effective conservation strategy. “They are instead based […]

Psychologist Rachel Rodgers with Northeastern University recently surveyed models. Many said they were not only told to lose weight but were threatened if they didn’t. Over half of them, 54 percent, had been told to lose weight. And otherwise, they would not be able to find any more jobs.

To prosecute an act of vandalism as a hate crime, law-enforcement officers face several important challenges, said Jack Levin, a professor emeritus of criminology at Northeastern University who studies hate crimes. First, they have to identify the culprits. Then, they have to provide evidence, from bigoted graffiti to suspects’ statements, that crimes were motivated by […]

Federal hate crime prosecutions are rare, with federal prosecutors turning down nearly 90 percent of cases referred to them since the hate crime statute became law in 2009. The most common reason prosecutors gave for not bringing charges was insufficient evidence. A federal prosecution could mean a tougher sentence for Purinton if he’s convicted of […]

Our guest says most of us are pretty clueless about this – given all the misinformation on how our brains and bodies create our “feelings.” In her new book, Lisa Feldman Barrett challenges long-held theories about emotions, debunked by modern neuroscience, but still shaping everything from health care to public safety.

Many cities and countries that have instituted Vision Zero policies (from New York City to the Netherlands) have seen dramatic decreases in traffic deaths. New York City had fewer traffic deaths last year than ever before. If the U.S. had instituted Vision Zero when the Netherlands did in the late 1990s, we could have avoided […]

It’s easy to understand the appeal of a president as CEO. The U.S. president is indisputably the chief executive of a massive, complex, global structure known as the federal government. And if the performance of our national economy is vital to the well-being of us all, why not believe that Trump’s experience running a large company equips […]

Trying to decode murder fluctuations is tricky. It’s often difficult to distinguish a statistical anomaly from a more insidious long-term trend, especially over the course of only a few years. “A two- or three-year span doesn’t necessarily indicate the initial phase of a trend,” said Professor Jack Levin, a criminologist who teaches at Northeastern University. […]

“Symbolism is incredibly important to social movements,” Sarah J. Jackson, an assistant professor of communication studies at Northeastern University, told PBS in the days leading up to the march. “For many people, and especially for many women who prior to this election weren’t necessarily engaged in activism, this is playing a really important role in […]

“In the artificial intelligence revolution (AI) over the next 15 years, 45 percent of the jobs we know are going to disappear”. Joseph Aoun, President of Northeastern University, delivered this rather stark warning at the World Government Summit in Dubai earlier this month. Presenting the “Future Model of Higher Education” during the summit, the President […]

But the search for other antibiotic sources is underway. For instance, Kim Lewis, the director of the Antimicrobial Discovery Center at Northeastern University, and his colleagues created a device that allows soil bacteria to be cultured in their natural habitat, thus opening a new pool of possible antibiotics.