The relationship between sporting events and our armed services always seemed firmly based on pure patriotism. The men and women who serve our country in the armed forces certainly deserve recognition and respect. At these sporting events, fans appropriately stand and applaud the waving military. Now, thanks to a Congressional report, we find out that […]

“I think that clearly the Islamic State has both the will and the means to commit a mass casualty attack like this against civilians,” Northeastern University terrorism expert Max Abrahms said. “The fact that the Islamic State could take down a commercial airplane in today’s day and age certainly suggests a higher level of capability.” […]

Any effort to establish standards must address two critical questions. How accurate are the readings from these devices? And what exactly is being measured? Today’s fitness trackers are designed to tell users whether they have walked more this week than last week, say, not to collect laboratory-quality measurements. “What they know is general movements, which […]

“It’s appalling,” Northeastern University legal scholar Daniel Medwed said. “This is a classic pay-to-play system.” Medwed dismisses any comparison between driving schools and air travel. “Air travel is a private service,” he said. “You want to get from A to B through the air. You choose to do that. You go through a private carrier. […]

This November marks the beginning of the largest prisoner release in this country’s history. Just over the first weekend, the federal prison system discharged over 6,000 inmates who saw their drug-related sentences reduced as a result of recent reforms. An estimated 40,000 additional federal prisoners will be eligible for early release in the coming months. […]

North­eastern Uni­ver­sity said Monday that it will launch its first international campus in 2016. North­eastern said it will open a location in Toronto, where it will offer grad­uate pro­grams “that are industry- aligned and tai­lored to meet the spe­cific needs of learners and employers in the region,” the university said in a release.

A few years ago, researchers at Northeastern University invented a new way of 3-D printing strong, flexible materials in industrial quantities. Now, federal health officials are asking them to shrink the process down small enough to make custom medical devices for newborns. The technology was developed in the lab of Randall Erb, an engineering professor […]

Northeastern University plans to open a satellite campus in Toronto next year, in what will be the school’s first international outpost and fourth branch outside its Boston hub. This initiative, three years in the making, aims to offer graduate programs tailored to working professionals and give workers specific skills missing in the Toronto talent pool, […]

“It’s troubling,’’ said Peter Enrich, an expert in local and state government at the Northeastern University School of Law. This kind of service preference, he said, is similar to the fee air travelers can pay to the federal government for expedited access through airport security. But he said he didn’t know of any other similar […]

From the vantage point of most Dallas Republicans in early 1963, Barry Goldwater represented the brightest hope for national conservative Republicanism since the death of Robert Taft in 1953. Annoyance with the New Deal, particularly the National Industrial Recovery Act’s wage and price controls, which interfered with the management of his family’s department store, led […]

We were looking for something cheaper,  mostly because we didn’t want the expense. And we didn’t spend much time ruminating on the Jamaica Plain condo we sold back in 2009, either. Because while it’s true that condo prices have risen since then — in Jamaica Plain and across the city — the broader housing picture, specifically for single-family homes, […]

Three computer scientists studying Uber’s surge pricing have devised a simple recommendation for thwarting the algorithm: Walk. The car-service app increases prices when demand for the service is higher than normal, ostensibly to attract more drivers to the area. In their study, the researchers at Northeastern University wrote a computer script that, in effect, created […]