“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 […]

I’d like to home in on the basic premise of the case: Is manslaughter the right charge and, if the case goes to trial, what obstacles will the prosecution encounter? The key issue is not so much whether Carter should be charged with a crime—she should—but rather which one. Bristol County prosecutors obtained an indictment […]

Gratitude, states Northeastern University professor David DeSteno in the Harvard Business Review, is a way to foster long-term thinking and patience. “We all recognize the fact that willpower can and does fail at times,” he writes. The facts today in Europe cry out for gratitude. A continent that was once in constant war now has […]

At the first of three community meetings on a body camera pilot program organized by the Boston City Council, even what seemed like should have been a simple yes or no question — should officers be able to record inside someone’s home? — led to a discussion about consent, privacy, and domestic violence issues. “It’s […]

Margaret Burnham, a law professor at Northeastern University and the first female, African American judge in Massachusetts, is completing an archive of 400 unsolved murder cases from the South, dating from 1930 to 1970, thought to have been racially motivated. In addition to providing a sense of closure for the families and communities, the archival […]

Cosmologists have long thought that the universe is made up of galaxies tethered together by gravity. But what on earth does this ‘cosmic web’ actually look like? That’s what researchers at Northeastern University’s Center For Complex Network Research have been working on. They created three computer models of possible links between 24,000 galaxies, and then […]