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U.S. News & World Report
See the Best and Worst States for Health Care Climate Risks
“Our scorecard shows that states with strong clean energy and resilience policies are doing a better job protecting health and health care infrastructure, while other states leave patients exposed during potential crises,” Matthew Eckelman, study author and Northeastern University associate professor and associate chair for civil and environmental engineering, said in a statement.
People are losing jobs due to social media posts about Charlie Kirk
Well, I spoke to Rebekah Tromble, a professor at Northeastern University who studies First Amendment issues, among other things.
Mapping the structure of the brain doesn’t fully explain its function
“Connectomics data is often criticised as, ‘Oh, you get only structure. You don’t get behaviour.’ And this paper is really probing that question to what degree we can [connect the two],” says Albert-László Barabási at Northeastern University in Massachusetts.
‘Unsolved, but not forgotten’: Louis D. Brown Peace Institute pushes for justice in unsolved murders
And with the Northeastern University School of Law, she helped produce a report, “Unsolved, But Not Forgotten.”
NASA selects three Mass. college alumni among ten US astronaut candidates
Dr. Imelda Muller, who graduated from Northeastern in 2013, was selected from a pool of 8,000 applicants, NASA announced in a live ceremony Sep. 22.
Instagram design still makes it unsafe for teens: Report
Nearly two-thirds of the social media platform’s safety features were deemed ineffective or were no longer available, according to the report from former Facebook engineering director Arturo Béjar and Cybersecurity for Democracy, a research project from New York University and Northeastern University.
NBC Boston
NASA names Northeastern University graduate as astronaut candidate
Dr. Imelda Muller, who earned a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from the Boston school in 2012, is part of an elite and select group that could, one day, walk on the surface of Mars.
Science News
This experimental computer chip reuses energy
The system was reusing a portion of its electrical energy instead of wasting it as heat. “This is quite exciting,” says Aatmesh Shrivastava, a computer engineer at Northeastern University in Boston. “We all want a computing system where we can recover energy.”
Why consumers are demanding more than just “sustainable”
By analyzing over a thousand soil samples organically and conventionally managed from across 48 U.S. states, The Organic Center and Northeastern University found that organic soils had 13% higher soil organic matter and 44% higher long-term carbon storage than conventionally managed soils.
Domino Recalls Sugar as FDA Issues Consumer Risk Warning
Darin Detwiler, a professor of food policy at Northeastern University, previously told Newsweek: “While not as urgent as Class I recalls, Class II recalls should still be heeded, and the products should be returned or disposed of according to the instructions provided.” Darin Detwiler, a professor of food policy at Northeastern University, previously told Newsweek: “While not […]
Gizmodo
Scientists Predict Extreme Global Water Shortages by 2100
The study provides a timely, comprehensive estimate of future water scarcity risk, Auroop Ganguly, a distinguished professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University who was not involved in the research, told Gizmodo.
Instagram still poses risk to children despite new safety tools, says Meta whistleblower
Two-thirds (64%) of new safety tools on Instagram were found to be ineffective, according to a comprehensive review led by Arturo Béjar, a former senior engineer at Meta who testified against the company before US Congress, New York University and Northeastern University academics, the UK’s Molly Rose Foundation and other groups.