Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but for some it’s that morning cup of joe they can’t live without. But Northeastern University sophomores Ali Kothari and Johnny Fayad may have found a new way to get that morning fix. “We were constantly running late for our 8 a.m. classes and never […]

Also, how jobs are counted makes apples-to-apples comparisons tricky. MassBio is deliberately conservative in how it counts employees and focuses on manufacturing and research and development activities in the state. According to one study done by the Dukakis Center for Urban & Regional Policy at Northeastern University, the Massachusetts life science industries in 2012 employed […]

The key, all of these writers say, is to counter something that is emotionally “hot” — desire, temptation, emotion — with something “cool” — the brain’s executive function. Forcing yourself to remember the negative effects of smoking rather than savoring the experience in the present requires the rational part of our minds (the prefrontal cortex) to […]

Through a collaboration with Northeastern University, the ISI Foundation, and others, researchers have built a model to predict the progression of the disease in West Africa, if the disease continues at its current pace. Using flight patterns, they also predict which countries are likely to see Ebola cases in the future. They calculated the importation […]

A group of researchers at the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio Technical Systems at Northeastern University in Boston has projected the countries that are most at risk to Ebola by the end of October. The United States, France, United Kingdom, Canada and China were among the countries named. Their research is based […]

The stock market’s wobbly, Europe’s economy looks weak, China looks a little peaked. You could worry plenty about the economy with a capital “E.” But for most people, the economy boils down first to a job. Everybody’s been spooked on that front at some point, but especially American blue collar workers. Now, we’ve got big […]

It is also the second consecutive year that the committee has honored an economist whose work essentially assumes that markets are often inefficient, challenging a widely held view in academia long associated with the University of Chicago economics department. “Jean Tirole, along with others, established a good theoretical foundation for the non-Chicago view of things […]

Professor Alex Vespignani, a physicist at Northeastern University in Boston, MA, has developed a computer model that predicts how air traffic affects the spread of Ebola. His team at the Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-technical Systems used a high-resolution map of human populations (3300 locations in 220 countries) and added daily airline […]

Max Abrahms, a professor at Northeastern University who studies counterterrorism, told The Huffington Post chemical weapons may help ISIS enforce compliance among communities like the Syrian Kurds, and scare rival militant groups. He said the finding was unlikely to significantly change the White House calculus. “If they wanted to use this as sort of a […]

Ebola already reached the US when a patient was diagnosed in Texas on September 30. But where is the disease likely to go next? A map from MOBS Lab and Northeastern University shows the risks. To develop these estimates, researchers used a computer model that tracks the frequency of international traffic to different countries, the […]

When climate change comes for Boston, many expect it to come by sea, in the form of rising tides and massive storm surges that will sweep Logan Airport into the Atlantic. The city is already beginning to plan its defense, with proposals for “amphibious architecture,” levees, storm baffles, and pumping stations. But a new study […]

To experts, the incident points both to progress in exposing and rooting out sexual hazing, but also to the need to address a broader “rape culture” that fuels such acts in part because they are seen as normal and happen at “all the schools.” “We need to take a hard look at the way we […]