Moret is a first-year graduate student in Northeastern’s Information Design and Visualization program. The program was started in 2013 as a unique merger of analysis and design meant to help researchers tell their data stories to a broader audience. “[Visual communication] allows people to catch the gist of something at a glance. . . that’s […]

Since 1985, police in North Charleston, S.C., have recorded four “justifiable homicides” in which a felon was killed by an officer, according to FBI data. All those killed were male. Two were white, two black. But how does that number (as compiled by criminologist James Alan Fox at Northeastern University) compare with other cities of […]

Now the real Boston Marathon trial can begin. A federal jury’s decision to convict Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of 30 charges related to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings was the most anticlimactic of anticlimaxes. The 21-year-old’s lawyers admitted from the beginning that their client had participated in the horrific terrorist attack, which both scarred and strengthened this […]

Before robbing banks, Enric Duran networked. As a teenager he was a professional table-tennis player and helped restructure the Catalan competition circuit to be more equitable. He turned his attention toward larger injustices in his early 20s, when he read Erich Fromm’s diagnosis of materialist society and Henry David Thoreau’s call to disobedience. This was […]

The current body armour used by the U.S. military is primarily made of Kevlar, a high-strength synthetic fibre first developed in the 1960s. A Polish company recently announced it had developed a liquid for use in body armour which could provide more protection than traditional Kevlar-based armour. The liquid, called Shear-Thickening Fluid, hardens upon impact […]

One year after the massive security flaw, Heartbleed, was revealed to the public, a new study found that up to 74 percent of companies in the Global 2000 are still vulnerable to being hacked via the bug. The flaw grabbed widespread media attention when it was revealed in 2014, and made countless businesses scramble to […]

“It’s a new kind of animal,” says Nick Ducoff, Northeastern University’s vice president for new ventures. In his position, he says, he gets “inundated with emails from people trying to hawk certain things.” He’d open emails from Mr. Freedman, says Mr. Ducoff, “because he’s authentic in the field.”