In her recent New York Times essay, Northeastern University psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett describes replication failures in genetics and physics as well as psychological science that led to marked progress in these fields. Nor is replication failure a modern phenomenon. Scientific American blogger Jared Horvath describes three famous replication failure cases from the history of science involving the work […]

Another mass shooting sears deep into the collective consciousness of the American people. Another school — this time a community college in an otherwise peaceful town in rural Oregon — is devastated by a young man taking aim at students trapped in classrooms. Nine are murdered, and many others wounded, before the gunman is killed […]

The indictment’s reference to City Hall was “curious,” said Roger I. Abrams, a labor law specialist and professor at Northeastern Law School. The phone calls did not appear to cross a line, Abrams said, but the sentence mentioning the city official was not included by mistake. “It’s not superfluous. Normally, those indictments do not contain […]

Alan Klein, a professor of sociology at Northeastern University in Boston who has written two books on Dominican baseball, said antagonism against a different ethnic group may be harbored within the clubhouse and come out against opponents on the field. “I think that’s more likely to come from white players than from Latin players,’’ said […]

EVERY DAY, MILLIONS of people use Google to dig up information that drives their daily lives, from how long their commute will be to how to treat their child’s illness. This search data reveals a lot about the searchers: their wants, their needs, their concerns—extraordinarily valuable information. If these searches accurately reflect what is happening […]

But in the future, says Northeastern University researcher Nick Beauchamp, machine learning technology could change that. He’s developed an algorithm that could make it even easier for politicians to know exactly what to say to make us love them and hate their rivals. It’s a future that’s as fascinating as it is terrifying.

The trend towards women becoming more involved in the professional sports world took another dramatic step in the right direction on Tuesday when the Oakland Athletics became the first Major League Baseball organization to hire a female coach COH +1.87%. Justine Siegal, who boasts a PhD in Sport and Exercise Psychology from Springfield College in Massachusetts, will be […]