The comments made by Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) at last week’s Democratic Party debate drew praise for breaking American political taboos about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Criticizing Israel’s military actions as “disproportionate” and calling for Palestinians to be treated with “respect and dignity” is certainly not what we’ve come to expect from American politicians, especially in […]

Northeastern University has been awarded a $3 million grant to establish the Advanced Nanomanufacturing Cluster for Smart Sensors and Materials (“ANSSeM”), a consortium of private manufacturing companies and tier-one research universities working on new methods to create smart sensors and other revolutionary materials using ‘nanoscale’ printing processes. The five-year grant award is made by the […]

On the left, by contrast, people tend to mistrust corporations — especially big ones — as corrupt and destructive. These are the institutions bringing us both nuclear power and genetically modified agriculture. “When science is aligned with big corporations the left immediately, intuitively perceives the technology as not benefiting the greater good but only benefiting […]

The aphorism “A rising tide lifts all boats” has become entwined with a basic assumption that free trade results in economic wins for all players in the global economy. Of course this assumes you are lucky enough to have a boat that has not run aground. The classic case for free trade was made nearly […]

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 […]