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AIs gave scarily specific self-harm advice to users expressing suicidal intent, researchers find

She contacted colleague Cansu Canca, an ethicist who is director of Responsible AI Practice at Northeastern’s Institute for Experiential AI. Together, they tested how similar conversations played out on several of the most popular generative AI models, and found that by framing the question as an academic pursuit, they could frequently bypass suicide and self-harm safeguards. 
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NightSide News Update 7/30/25

Professor James Monaghan, Biology Department Chair at Northeastern University College of Science: Does the axolotl salamander hold the key to human limb regeneration?  Professor Monaghan seems to think so!
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Boston’s downtown is in trouble and needs reinvention

Ted Landsmark, director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, said that in cities like Phoenix, Savannah, and Charleston, “the presence of students and dormitories had a substantial impact on downtowns” in search of revitalization. 
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A legal battle over the founding of TikTok is playing out in a Norristown courtroom

Attorneys for Tan and Zhang Hao spent much of Wednesday eliciting expert testimony from their first witness, Edmund Yeh, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University.
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Study Finds Increased Miscarriage Risk After Exposure to This Chemical

“We already know that PFAS are associated with preterm birth, low birth weight, reproductive toxicity, preeclampsia, decreased fertility, and single occurrence of miscarriage,” Phil Brown, a professor of sociology and health sciences and the director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
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Online creators, led by MrBeast and Mark Rober, want to raise $40 million for clean water access

“Ideally, you would not use philanthropy simply to take away the symptoms of whatever is the problem,” said Patricia Illingworth, a Northeastern University philosophy professor who writes about ethics in philanthropy. “But, rather, you would want to address the root cause.”
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Is MAGA Turning Against Israel?

The shift in rhetoric on Israel could be because Republicans are “reading the tea leaves in terms of public opinion” on the conflict, Costas Panagopoulos, a political scientist at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
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A New Hidden State of Matter Could Make Computers 1,000x Faster

Now, a new study—led by scientists at Northeastern University—is investigating the next era of transistors that utilize a “hidden metallic state” capable of rapidly transitioning from a conductor to an insulator.
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Keller: “Grievance murders” can find support on social media, expert says

“Social media has certainly had an impact,” said Northeastern University criminology Professor James Alan Fox. “If someone has a grudge, a grievance, they can find other people online who will support them, who confirm their ideology.”
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On ultra-processed foods, let’s move beyond talk

What began as a wartime necessity evolved into a profit-driven industry built on super-sized portions, synthetic additives, and relentless marketing. Today, these hyper-engineered products comprise more than 73 percent of the U.S. food supply, according to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute.
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The Great Massachusetts Nicotine Prohibition

The long list of speakers included Mark Gottlieb, executive director of Northeastern University School of Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, which has worked extensively on tobacco policy and clinical addiction, as well as Harvard doctors and professors, select board members and Reading residents. 
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UN Plastics Treaty is the world’s “last chance to act boldly”

“To be effective, the global plastics treaty must address the real world architecture of the plastics economy, where trade is the connective tissue,” said Professor Maria Ivanova, Northeastern University.