“Unfortunately, we cannot go back in time to see what environmental factors, including diet, were responsible for the evolution of social tendencies,” says Rebeca Rosengaus at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. “So the manipulations performed by the authors are only a first step to understand the dynamics between environmental stress and sociality.” Although the evolution of any trait is […]

Traditionally, broadcast media honors requests not to be filmed, like when videographers record B-roll footage of a day at the beach, says Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University who runs the blog MediaNation (no relation to ABC’s Kennedy). But when there’s a small camera mounted to a building, how does someone request they not […]

It’s a question about which any one book can only scratch the surface. To the Secretary seems inclined to answer, “Indefinitely,” and lays out a sampler of international examples with varying levels of candor. There are major incidents (power games in post-cyclone Burma spelled the end of a regime). There are sly asides (a diplomat […]

“You need to take six months of crime data, not just with a grain of salt but the entire shaker,” said James Alan Fox, the interim director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. “I can point to situations where crime patterns seen for the first six months are reversed once the […]

Papadopoulos, who now has a teaching position at Northeastern University in Boston, is trying to get comfortable with academia once again. He’s establishing collaborations, and testing out long-dormant ideas about why some bicycles wobble at high speed7. He believes he can eliminate speed wobble with a damper to soak up vibrations in the seat post. […]

We know that diverse teams are more creative and productive than homogenous teams, but how do you get individuals who aren’t alike working together smoothly? As I’ve seen from teaching over 960 recruits as a basic-training company commander in the U.S. Army, people from various backgrounds struggle to discover shared interests during the early stages […]

The effort from progressives also comes amid growing evidence that merger enforcement is falling short, leading to higher prices and more concentration across industries. Officials have largely stopped challenging deals in all but the most concentrated industries, according to research by Northeastern University economics professor John Kwoka. They are increasingly relying on settlements that allow […]

“This was an especially important day in France,” said Max Abrahms, a Northeastern University professor and terror expert. “It’s Bastille Day, which is essentially the equivalent to our July 4, so there were a lot of people out in the streets and that made for a very soft target.”

Company founder and CEO Rupal Patel is a speech technology professor on leave from Northeastern University. Her research found that people with severe communication disorders preserve the ability to control aspects of their voices, such as pitch and loudness. Those characteristics — what Patel calls the “melody of speech” — are also important for speaker […]

“The CFAA – a statute suffering from both definitional ambiguities and circuit splits – is, unfortunately, a part of the standard tool-kit of legal threats aggressive attorneys sometimes use to silence researchers attempting to report security vulnerabilities to companies.” – Andrea Matwyshyn, Northeastern University

Josh Levin is remarkably unfazed by his success on American Ninja Warrior. “It wasn’t anything too crazy,” he says. “There’s a lot of cameras and everything, but you don’t really think about the fact that you’re on TV. I was more looking forward to the experience and getting a chance to play around on the […]

After Dallas, threats may seem more threatening to police officers around the country, said Daniel Medwed, professor of law at Northeastern University. “We might be seeing more arrests right now because the police will interpret that they have probable cause to make the arrest,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean in the end that this […]