Physicists believe the universe to be a network of galaxies connected by filaments of gas—an invisible mesh of connections called the cosmic web. In a new paper titled The Network Of the Cosmic Web and published on the preprint server arXiv, physicist Bruno Coutinho and his research team at Northeastern University’s Barabasi Lab explore how […]

Thomas’s lynching statement was remarkable, considering the metaphor was being used to discredit allegations made by Hill, who is also black. And yet there is a term for this power play: “misogynoir.” Misogynoir, a term created by Moya Bailey, the dean’s postdoctoral fellow in digital humanities and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Northeastern University, […]

Some experts say the count could be six of nine times in which a contested GOP convention resulted in the nomination of a candidate who wasn’t the delegate leader. But Northeastern University political science professor Willam Mayer, who has written books on presidential nominations, told us that Kasich’s definition of a contested convention is defensible.

In large part, the trend is driven by prosecutors’ increasing attention to potentially wrongful convictions, including the rise of dedicated Conviction Integrity Units within district attorneys’ offices. “Most prosecutors want to do the right thing… It’s not in the interest of prosecutors and society to have an innocent person in prison, because it also means […]

On Monday, CDC Principal Deputy Director Ann Schuchat said the words many have dreaded since the Zika outbreak began. “Everything we look at with this [Zika] virus,” she said, “seems to be a little scarier than we initially thought.” In a lab at Northeastern University, Tom Webster is trying to combat those fears. Webster, chair […]

Lamar Letts isn’t your average 21-year-old university student. While on the one hand he’s focused on graduating from Northeastern University with degrees in marketing and finance, outside of the classroom, Letts is actually focused on something bigger. His own electrolyte beverage.

Making peace with women is part of Trump’s effort to “put to rest this charge that he’s anti-women,” added Alan ­Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University. “It’s important that he does that because she’s a very popular personality on Fox and has a big following, particularly among conservative voters,” Schroeder said. And, he added, […]

Experiments by David DeSteno, a psychologist at Northeastern University, offer additional evidence that gratitude might lead to greater willingness to support the common good. In one widely cited study, he and his co-authors devised a clever manipulation to make a group of laboratory subjects feel grateful, and then gave them an opportunity to take actions […]

So what are we to make of the Boston Globe’s parody of a possible Donald Trump presidency? Is it inspired or sophomoric? A responsible exercise of a newspaper’s role in shaping public opinion or self-indulgent clickbait? And does the form that it takes—the entire front of the Sunday Ideas section, designed to look like page […]

This focus on apprenticeships and associate degrees makes sense for Boston, says Alicia Modestino, a labor economist at Northeastern University. “We don’t do a very good job of producing individuals at a middle-skill level of education,” she says. These are the workers that employers increasingly covet, particularly when it comes to supporting the highly educated […]

“I would think that that’s probably the tip of the iceberg,” said Daniel Medwed. He is a professor at Northeastern University’s School of Law and says misconduct ranges from prosecutors withholding evidence that could help the defense to badgering or threatening witnesses to improper remarks in closing arguments. “If prosecutors aren’t playing fairly, they can […]

Why do state court judges uphold convictions that are riddled with misconduct? Why do state prosecutors insist on defending them? The answer, according to Northeastern University law professor Daniel Medwed, who has written extensively on the topic, is likely a combination of law, politics, and basic human psychology. Our criminal justice famously presumes that every […]