Since 2000, the homicide total in the city has ranged from 39 to 75, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports. Looking at a shorter time period, like the first 5½ months of the year, produces even greater variation, said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University. “Just because the homicide count is a […]

Pope Francis is to make history this week with a call for international cooperation to avert dangerous global warming – the Vatican’s most powerful statement yet on the environment and climate change. A leaked draft of the encyclical – a special type of edict used to define key priorities for the Catholic church and its […]

“It’s an exceptional score, really, and I think one thing that distinguishes it from any other score I can think of is just how memorable that main theme is and what a perfect match it is for the shark,” said Matthew McDonald, associate professor of film music at Northeastern University. “I taught my five-year-old to […]

“The key challenges associated with the development of high performance MEMS and NEMS resonators for RF wireless communication and sensing applications are the isolation of energy-dissipating mechanisms and scaling of the device volume in the nanoscale size-range,” Rinaldi, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, tells Nanowerk. “We […]

However, some experts believe the lack of contribution from Washington’s coalition partners is of less significance in the battle against Isis than persuading local Sunni forces to co-operate with the coalition and the Iraqi military to help defeat the terror group. “If I were to rank all of the different reasons for the growth of […]

Max Abrahms, a terrorism expert at Northeastern University, said al Qaeda has tried recently to present itself as a more moderate force in Yemen in a multifaceted conflict involving Houthi rebels. In Syria, the al Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front has battled against Islamic State militants as well as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Some coalition partners have […]

VocaliD creates a computer voice that sounds like the user once did—or, in the case of someone who has never spoken, sounds like what they would have. Patel, a speech clinician and scientist who is a tenured professor at Northeastern University, uses the small noises from something like a laugh or hum from a person […]

The Reverends Emmett G. Price III and Irene Monroe joined Boston Public Radio Monday for their regular segment, All Revved Up. Price and Monroe talked about two Boston mothers who turned their sons in for their suspected roles in the murder of a 16-year-old. They also talked about the former head of a Washington NAACP suspected […]

Over the weekend on June 14, UN-brokered talks began in Geneva, but many Yemenis know that with the increasingly hostile armed factions, a destroyed economy and the Saudi/Iran rivalry playing itself out in their country, peace will be hard to come by. With the Houthi rebels in the north and al Qaeda in the Arabia […]

These numbers are hard to verify because no one really knows for certain a manager’s stake in his or her firm, said Nicole Boyson, a finance professor at Northeastern University. Additionally, funds charged to clients vary drastically among and within the different firms, and one would also have to account for how much of these […]

Bringing student loan debt — or any debt — into retirement is dangerous since retirement already is full of variables, with the largest being how long the retiree will live, said Coleen Pantalone, a professor of finance at Northeastern University in Boston. “Retirement is a risky time of life,” Pantalone said. “It is tempting to […]

“James is going to be under a microscope, and everyone will be comparing him to a legend,” said Ted Clark, executive director of the Center for Family Business at Northeastern University. “It’s going to be really hard to measure up.”