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The Implants Were Supposed to Dissolve. They Didn’t.

“The standards are lax and can be manipulated by expert lawyers and creative manufacturers,” said David Simon, an associate law professor at Northeastern University who co-leads the Amy J. Reed Collaborative for Medical Device Safety. “In a variety of cases, devices are cleared and implanted in humans without ever having been tested on humans.”

Earthquake in Afghanistan Leaves More Than 800 Dead

“Domestic governance structure and international aid are very critical in a moment like the aftermath of this earthquake, and both are at a low point in Afghanistan at the moment,” said Daniel Aldrich, the director of the Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University.
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Taliban call for international aid as Afghan earthquake toll tops 1,400

While international agencies initially filled humanitarian gaps after the Taliban’s takeover in August 2021, “the longer we’re seeing the consequences of [President Donald Trump’s] attacks on international aid agencies and the withdrawal of the U.S. from so many of those frameworks, we’re seeing that those gaps remain unfilled,” said Daniel Aldrich, co-director of the Global Resilience […]
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This Common Way Of Loading Your Fridge Could Be Ruining Your Groceries

“Likely to warm foods include ready-to-eat foods (deli meats, leftovers, cut fruit), eggs and dairy stored far from vents are most vulnerable,” Darin Detwiler, professor of food policy at Northeastern University, said.
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No, Your iPhone Isn’t Listening to You. Here’s What’s Really Happening

Independent researchers have gone looking for covert “listening” and found none, including a definitive 2018 Northeastern University study that has yet to be superseded. What they did catch in a handful of cases were screen recordings or image and video uploads to third parties. Creepy, sure, but not a hot mic.
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Subdued decision in Google antitrust trial may help keep a monopoly in power

“It is a historic misfire that fails to meet the enormity of the finding that Google is a monopolist in online search,” said Christo Wilson, a Northeastern University computer sciences professor, who has studied Google’s operations.
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Why companies are turning to short-term borrowing

“It kind of provides a low-cost, instantaneous almost, cash infusion,” said John Bai, a finance professor at Northeastern University. He said commercial paper typically matures in months. Or even days.
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Map Shows Thousands More Areas Where Groundwater Could Be Contaminated

“Nixon wanted to expand presidential power but he complied because the other branches pushed back,” said Daniel Urman, a constitutional-law scholar at Northeastern University.
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Map Shows Thousands More Areas Where Groundwater Could Be Contaminated

Features research on PFAS chemicals by Phil Brown.

“I Never Thought I’d Get To See A Blue Lobster In Person”: Meet Neptune, He’s 1-In-2-Million

Neptune has a rare genetic anomaly that overproduces crustacyanin, turning his exoskeleton electric blue. The genetic anomaly behind it is thought to occur in one in 2 million lobsters, making him very flashy indeed. So much so that even the lobster experts were excited when Myslinski donated him to Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center.
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“Octopus maps”: when graphics inspire conspiracy theories (even today)

In past maps, many nations have been depicted as the marine animal, symbolizing a threat. But, according to a study from Northeastern University, you don’t have to be that explicit to spark a conspiracy theory.
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Audit of Mass. gambling regulator finds sports betting ads were sent to youths and people affected by addiction

“The finding that the Commission failed to take a proactive role monitoring sports gambling advertising in the critical first months of Massachusetts sports betting is a cause for deep concern,” said Mark Gottlieb, executive director of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University. “Potentially dangerous consumer products demand a robust regulatory oversight that was absent […]