The Belgian capital is in lock down following a series of terrorist attacks that killed more than 30 people and injured at least 230 more. Two blasts ripped through the airport early this morning, killing 11 people. An hour later, another explosion — a bomb — struck a metro station in the heart of the […]

“I think our public officials, our elected officials, are aware of that possibility,” said Northeastern University security expert Sean Burke. Burke said we need to reassess the resources that we are putting towards security and investigate whether there are improvements we can make. He said regular travelers will most likely be the first to recognize […]

“Whether it’s saving for retirement, or thinking about the health of your lifestyle in terms of your diet and whether you smoke,” said Matthew Nisbet, who studies science and communication at Northeastern University, “people not only discount a possible future risk, but also tend to have an optimistic bias, in that ‘these risks might affect […]

Early adopters, innovators, researchers, entrepreneurs, angel investors: these are people who dwell on the fringe. These are the seekers: those who strain their eyes, their fingers, and their minds trying to see, grasp, and conceive that which lies just beyond the known. These are those who attend Northeastern University’s Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo (RISE).

The first came in the same 60 Minutes interview, when Hillary said she was not “standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette.” It was a relatively innocuous pop culture reference, but when she later told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell that “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas,” it started to […]

If you’ve hosted an international student while they studied in the U.S., there’s a tax break for that. You can deduct $50 for any month when an exchange student lives in your home for 15 days or more.To qualify, it “requires an official agreement with a sponsoring organization, and the student must be a full-time […]

A new study, by Northeastern University economist Matthias Doepke and the University of Bonn’s Fabian Kindermann, dives into this by first looking at how couples decide to have kids. The working paper literally starts with a birds-and-the-bees conversation: “A basic fact about babies is that it takes both a woman and a man to make […]

Having to jump through hoops also initially worried Joseph Reagle, an assistant professor of communications studies at Northeastern University and author of the book Reading the Comments. Reagle says he was initially skeptical of Civil’s ideas. But he says that after using it and talking to the founders, he’s excited about the experiment. And he […]

A 2015 study of hedge funds found that only 2.6 percent in the sample were managed exclusively by women and 4.6 percent name any women as managers, again resulting in a fairly small sample size. There were only 439 hedge funds identified with any women managers over the 20 years covered by the study, carried […]

Although barriers such as “regulations, fee-for-service incentives, pharmaceutical lobbies, trade unions, medical malpractice lawsuits, and investments in extensive hospital infrastructure” exist, write Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and Ravi Ramamurti, director of the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University, in Harvard Business Review, hospitals in the U.S. should […]

Cases in which prosecutors have signaled interest in the Apple tool, or one like it, continue to pile up. In Manhattan, for instance, the district attorney’s office says it holds 205 encrypted iPhones that neither it nor Apple can currently unlock, up from 111 in November. Such pent-up demand for the tool spells danger, says […]

“Privacy is increasing in importance and the debate between Apple’s iPhone encryption and the FBI is a good example of that,” says Engin Kirda, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University. “I think a lot of users would appreciate having cryptographic control over their own data.” “I think the real innovation is […]