Of course, prediction is a proven hazard. Just ask the weatherman, or seismologists or, for that matter, economic forecasters, whose reams of data and supercomputers don’t seem to help much. And then, data-based prediction has a serious limitations: It’s only as good as the data. “An algorithm will never be able to make predictions about […]

Today’s hot tech companies may soon be in for some nasty surprises. Teenagers are pushing back against the technology dependence that previous generations have developed — in fact, against anything the corporate world pushes at them. That’s one of the surprising findings in a survey just released by Northeastern University. Attempts to quantify Generation Z — those born after 1995 — are becoming […]

FINANCIAL ANXIETIES PLAGUE GEN Z: A new survey out of Northeastern University suggests the large majority of 16- to 19-year-olds believe a college degree is important, but they worry about being able to afford it. A quarter of “Generation Z” students surveyed said they don’t think any loan debt is manageable, and 44 percent said […]

A new survey by Northeastern University found that a majority of Generation Z — those between the ages of 16 and 19 — is very self-motivated and seeks to craft its own future through higher education. The survey of young people throughout the country is the fourth in a series by the university, which focuses […]

Students born in the mid-1990s or later are overwhelmingly in favor of going to college, but they’re not too keen on taking out loans to pay for it, a new poll found. More than 80 percent of the survey’s participants – whom the researchers refer to as “Generation Z” – said that obtaining a college […]

Don’t be surprised if there are a few more Ebola cases in the United States in the next couple months. That’s according to a Northeastern University researcher who’s created a forecasting map to predict the spread of the deadly disease. He warns it’s not an exact science, and says a vaccine could change everything. “We have […]

As the world reels from the brutal execution of aid worker Peter Kassig by knife-wielding Isis (Islamic State) militants, academics claim they have uncovered proof that executing hostages does not help terror groups achieve their aims. Max Abrahms of Northeastern University and Matthew S Gottfried of UCLA argue that an analysis of thousands of hostage […]

Gen Z, or the iGeneration as some have called it, refers to those born since roughly 1995. These are kids who have never known a world without the Internet and smartphones. And they’re just starting to hit college. Marketplace teamed up with Northeastern University to survey the latest crop of college-bound teenagers, aged 16 to […]

Northeastern University, in conjunction with Marketplace, surveyed American teens between the ages of 16 to 19 to create a “Portrait of Generation Z.”

At Northeastern University, assistant professor of pharmacy Ganesh Thakur received a $2 million federal grant in September from the National Eye Institute to create a compound to treat glaucoma, an eye disease that blinds 60 million people worldwide. Thakur’s goal is to design a drug that mimics marijuana’s ability to reduce the fluid pressure inside […]

Barry Bluestone, a professor of political economy and director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, agreed that the market is not behaving normally. Part of it is the lingering effects of economic and housing downturn of the last decade; prices are still far below their pre-recession levels in many […]

Humans have a powerful drive to know about other people’s lives. It’s the fascination — often seasoned liberally with schadenfreude — behind a welter of magazines and television programs that have made celebrity gossip a more than $3 billion industry. “Your life may be more glamorous than mine,” we might think as we scan the […]