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Judge in 2024 Election Results Lawsuit Sets Timeline

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, previously told Newsweek: “Statistical irregularities in elections should always be investigated, but the sources of such inconsistencies, which can include error or miscalculation, are not always nefarious. Still, scrutinizing election results can strengthen confidence in elections. Mistakes can happen.
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Los Angeles clash: Information war favoring Trump: risk of exaggeration created by social media

Laura Edelson, an associate professor at Northeastern University, points out, “Trump is trying to shape public opinion by portraying protesters as lawless and illegal immigrants as dangerous, and the Waymo footage just reinforces that message at a time when public opinion is so volatile.”
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If you always ask yourself these five ‘powerful’ questions, you’re more mentally strong than most

By Amy Morin, a psychotherapist, clinical social worker and instructor at Northeastern University. 

“Octopus Maps” Promote Conspiratorial Thinking Even When It Is Unintended

During their new study of this form of depiction, researchers at Northeastern University explored historical examples of octopus maps as well as conducting an empirical study of their visual and structural form, and their overall rhetorical function. 
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What Swift fan accounts should know about copyright after Barstool’s ‘Taylor Watch’ canceled

It’s a perfect question for David Herlihy, an intellectual property, new media and entertainment lawyer who also teaches at Northeastern University in Boston. =
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Why is ABC’s firing of Terry Moran roiling journalists?

ABC was “right to suspend Moran” but “wrong to get rid of him,” said Northeastern University journalism Professor Dan Kennedy in his Media Nation newsletter.
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There could be fewer summer jobs available for teenagers this year

“This is what teaches good work habits,” said Alicia Modestino, a professor of public policy at Northeastern University.
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Mary Trump Predicts US to Face ‘Yet Another Test’ from Donald Trump

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek there is a “rich history” of military parades and it is legitimate to want to celebrate the birthday of the army, but what makes the parade different in the eyes of many critics is that it happens to also fall on Trump’s birthday.
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Now we know how the funny and extraordinary amphibian axolotl manages to regrow entire limbs and organs

The complex mechanism by which it does this was revealed today by a research team coordinated by James Monaghan, a biologist at Northeastern University.
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These Smiling Salamanders Are Helping Scientists Learn to Regrow Limbs

“This species is special,” lead researcher James Monaghan, a biologist at Northeastern University in Boston, told The Washington Post. They have “really become the champion of some extreme abilities that animals have.”
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Newly discovered plant genes could slash cost of making key cancer drug

“This is really a remarkable piece of work,” says Jing-Ke Weng, a biochemist at Northeastern University. “This provides an alternative way to produce this extremely valuable drug precursor.”
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Northeastern biologists find secret to limb regeneration in the axolotl salamander, a ‘superstar of cuteness’

For centuries, scientists have wondered how salamanders regrow limbs, especially axolotls, which do so at one of the fastest rates, said James Monaghan, biology department chair at Northeastern University.