People living today find their lives bookended by two eras of weaponry: nuclear arms and the emerging threat of lethal autonomous weapons. On the one hand, nuclear Armageddon is still a real risk as states fail to live up to their legal obligations to disarm and dispose of their nuclear stockpiles. Lethal autonomous robotic weaponry, […]

What are the biggest issues facing the MLB today? Where do the rise of regional sports networks and the emphasis being placed on modern stadiums rank?

“The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” proclaimed Chicken Little in the classic folktale about mass hysteria. Along her journey to inform the king of the impending doom, the panicky bird convinced her friends Henny Penny, Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey and Turkey Lurkey that their lives were in danger. Apparently, Chicken Little is alive […]

Faster prediction could be extremely helpful in making economic decisions, says David Lazer, one of the authors of the Royal Society Interface paper. “There’s an enormous amount invested by public and private entities to measure the status of the economy in order to better inform policy interventions. If we could understand the changes in the […]

Who is the Rhode Island person being questioned by authorities in the alleged terrorist plot that ended in the shooting death of a Boston man on Tuesday? So far, at least, most of the local media aren’t saying. But already a Rhode Island television station has breached the wall of silence, so you can be […]

In 15 years, the town’s population could jump by as much as 17 percent with fewer families with children and more residents over the age of 65. That’s the conclusion of a report “Envision Braintree” done by Lauren Costello and Barry Bluestone of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University. Bluestone, […]

In the wake of suspected terrorist Usaamah Rahim’s death, Craig Gruber of Northeastern University’s Homeland Security program discusses how young people may become radicalized and violent.