“The one thing we do know is at the very bottom end if you don’t advance the skills of those who don’t graduate or barely graduate from high school, they are surely going to be left behind,” says Alicia Modestino, an associate professor of public policy at Northeastern University in Boston who studies labor markets.

Fexinidazole “is an excellent example of drug discovery scientists ‘rescuing’ a compound that was otherwise in the dustbin of a large drug company,” said Michael Pollastri, an associate processor in medicinal chemistry at Northeastern University who wasn’t involved with this research, in an earlier interview with HuffPost. “It’s a perfect example of how valuable it can be to […]

“I would hope that he’d continue to use Twitter even as president, as it is a natural medium of communication for him,” said John P. Wihbey, a journalism professor at Northeastern University who studies presidential communication. “It is useful for citizens to know what he’s thinking about and his ideas on policy issues. I’m all […]

The research comes from Northeastern University in Boston, and suggests that scientists can achieve success at any point in their careers – and achieve it repeatedly – as long as they keep trying. Professor Albert-​​​​László Barabasi, who led the study, said: ‘Under­standing the laws and the patterns that govern our careers could sig­nif­i­cantly enhance sci­en­tific […]

“It’s very hard to know why you’re seeing what [price] you’re seeing,” said study co-author Christo Wilson, an assistant professor at Northeastern. Now, that same team of researchers, in conjunction with Volunteer Science, is aiming to raise the curtain on price differentiation. Their plugin for Chrome browsers runs the same search you did on the […]

Northeastern University’s athletic director knew he had to do something. Donald Trump’s boorish comments about kissing, groping, and trying to have sex with women — remarks from 2005 that were first revealed in early October — had ignited a national conversation. Peter Roby was appalled, especially after he heard Trump later defend his comments as […]

Mary Steffel, a psychologist at Northeastern University, and colleagues have found that the more specific a gift card is, the less likely it is to be redeemed. “If you’re not sure what your recipient wants,” Dr. Steffel advised, “give them the gift of flexibility.” Above all, remember this: The thought usually doesn’t count. This counterintuitive […]

An experienced online shopper will tell you to always search for purchases – whether it be a gift for your mom or a flight – in an incognito window. There’s a reason for that, and it’s called price discrimination. Companies can use consumers’ online data to determine what they’re looking to buy and will hike […]

Many of this year’s cohort of Nobel laureates achieved their award-winning efforts when they were quite young — a phenomenon detected by decades of research on creativity. J. Michael Kosterlitz, co-recipient of the Nobel in physics, was 31 at the time of his prizewinning discovery, and his collaborator, David J. Thouless, was 39. Bob Dylan, […]

The true number is likely to be somewhere between these two figures according to Jack Levin of the Brudnick Centre on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University. Mr Levin distinguishes between hate crimes that are perpetrated by thrill-seekers and those committed by people who feel threatened by outsiders. The first sort tend to rise and […]

Transparent checkpointing can help developers, but challenges crop up with security and storage. A computer science professor explains some of the caveats involved.

The true number is likely to be somewhere between these two figures according to Jack Levin of the Brudnick Centre on Violence and Conflict at Northeastern University. Mr Levin distinguishes between hate crimes that are perpetrated by thrill-seekers and those committed by people who feel threatened by outsiders. The first sort tend to rise and […]