Other scholars are not as convinced. “Akhil is a prolific and enormously important constitutional scholar, [and] his emphasis on text has been important,” says Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional scholar at the University of California, Irvine. “But he is non-originalist in supporting a right to marriage equality.” Scalia would likely have agreed; and for some, like Daniel […]

“Will we be able to supply enough new workers? For me, that’s a big worry,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, a Northeastern University economics professor. “That will be more of a constraint [on growth] this year, more the next year, and more in 2018. It’s a problem that is going to get bigger.”

Brian Fountaine knows how difficult it is to live with prosthetic limbs–10 years ago, he became a double below-the-knee amputee after sustaining a combat injury in Iraq. What he didn’t know, however, is how expensive it is to get those prosthetics in the first place. “I, for lack of a better term, was lucky, because […]

During a recent appearance at Northeastern University, OkCupid founder Christian Rudder told a group of students why so many folks are dissatisfied with online dating platforms, the Boston Business Journal reports. According to him, it’s because dating is “horrible.” “I wager that most people who use OkCupid don’t like it because most people don’t like dating,” […]

A study of Gen Z’ers by Northeastern University found the group resoundingly supports equality, with 73 percent of those surveyed supporting gay marriage and 74 percent supporting transgender rights. Young people also overwhelmingly support a racially diverse America, with 73 percent saying they believe it’s important.

WGBH Morning Edition host Bob Seay discusses Justice Antonin Scalia’s legacy, the consequences of his death on the Supreme Court’s docket, and the search for his replacement with Daniel Medwed, WGBH legal analyst and law professor at Northeastern University.

Trump-style media managing is a unique model for pursuing the highest office, and best of all it’s cheap. It also holds the potential to open a new chapter in the decades-long story of politicians leveraging celebrity to captivate the media. The question now: Can it be duplicated? “I do think that Trump’s success in this […]

Part of the problem is a lack of firm data. Researchers don’t know the rate at which the virus is spread from mosquitoes to humans or from humans back to mosquitoes, or if mosquitoes can transmit the virus to their offspring, said Alessandro Vespignani, a professor of computer science and public health at Northeastern University. […]

Building Max a personalized voice is not only a technical issue; it also involves questions about his identity. What sounds might capture the different aspects of Max’s personality? Moreover, if Max is to have a synthesized voice, should it sound like a 16-year-old speaking, or should it sound more like who Max might become later? […]

Who would need such a table? Researchers at Northeastern University use a Kinetic table to examine proteins through powerful microscopes. When trying to look at something magnified at a molecular level, even the slightest movement would make it almost impossible. Top hospitals throughout Boston and the world have also called upon the local company to […]

In his legal philosophy, the late Justice Antonin Scalia was a rigid “textualist” who believed in judicial restraint. He purported to rely on the plain meaning of statutes and often construed laws narrowly to the detriment of deserving litigants. In his personal life, he loved great opera, food, and friends, among them, Justice Ruth Bader […]

Some of the reservations others raise about Gates’s work is purely because of the science. Large-scale transplantation is not economically feasible, Miller and others say, and as with other species, breeding coral to be resistant to the effects of global warming may narrow the genetic base and make it vulnerable to other things. It also […]