Astronauts spend years training before they go into space. The same is true for their robot counterparts, two of which recently arrived in Massachusetts to be put through their paces in preparation for a long-off mission to Mars. Valkyrie is built like a linebacker — 6’2” tall and 275 pounds. Its job is to go to […]

The 16 military personnel — including a two-star general — disciplined for a brutal airstrike on a hospital in Afghanistan last year that killed 42 sends a clear message such mistakes won’t be tolerated, one expert told the Herald. “The higher-ups want to convey that these sorts of mistakes are unacceptable and those that are […]

NASA selected Northeastern University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology through a competitive process open to groups who participated in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Robotics Challenge. “Frankly, we thought that it would be difficult to get both robots in Boston, but that says something about how big of a powerhouse Boston is in […]

What is it about @realDonaldTrump that has the Internet—or at least 7.5 million of us—rapt? We analyzed Donald Trump’s tweets going back to the beginning, in 2009, and it turns out there’s a lot you can learn about the man, too. *The top four words tweeted by Donald Trump since August. Sources: Trump’s Twitter history, […]

“The draft’s become a huge spectacle,” said Dan Lebowitz, who heads the Center for the Study of Sport in Society at Northeastern University. Lebowitz said it is in the NFL’s interest to create a sense of spectacle surrounding football, because it has relatively few games in each of the cities where there are teams. “When […]

“We’re a little bit better positioned for what’s happening in the economy than some other parts of the country,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, who prepared the estimates and is an economics professor at Northeastern University.

Northeastern University now has hospital beds and a robot baby at its uptown Charlotte campus. The Boston-based university first set roots in the Queen City in 2011. Since then, the program has grown to over 1,000 students and 35 programs, including a nursing program that will launch later this year.

Most of us have probably never caught an elusive “Green Wave” in Boston, the nickname for sailing through all the timed green lights on a busy street. The concept has been around since the 1920s and in our region, determines how most of our traffic lights are programmed. But if you’ve spent any frustrated time […]

Decapitation strategies, according to two researchers, however, can lead to even more violence due to the inexperience of mid-level leaders taking the reins. “When their leaderships are debilitated in a successful strike, militant groups become far less discriminate in their target selection by redirecting their violence from military to civilian targets,” Max Abrahms of Northeastern […]

Highly novel ideas received worse ratings than those with only moderate novelty, the study found, although those with little novelty also scored poorly. Christoph Riedl, a co-author and assistant professor for information systems at Northeastern University, explained to Times Higher Education that “humans just have cognitive limits in what they are able to understand”. “Evaluators […]

While the concept of the cosmic web has been around for a while, it is a tricky thing to picture. Because these strands are so subtle, it is hard for astrophysicists to directly observe them. Still, scientists have pieced together enough information to develop predictive models of what the cosmic web might look like based […]

The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled 2-1 that Commissioner Roger Goodell’s four-day disciplinary suspension of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady should be affirmed. In a carefully researched opinion, Judge Barrington D. Parker explained that, as an arbitrator, Goodell’s decision was worthy of utmost deference. Under prevailing precedent, a court was not […]