Hear a laugh, you know someone’s happy. Hear a sob, you know someone is sad. Or are they? It’s been thought that no matter where you live in the world, people express emotions using the same repertoire of sounds. But NPR’s social science correspondent, Shankar Vedantam, reports on new research on how emotions are expressed […]

It is unclear whether the rants that the 22-year-old Rodger had posted on the video-sharing service just over three weeks before he killed six people and himself would have tipped the scales in favor of intervention. But the disclosure rekindled debate over the extent to which social media should be considered a routine investigative tool […]

Just because you got a B.A. in graphic design doesn’t mean you won’t wind up toiling in a mortuary. Seriously: While the majority of people with designdegrees do find employment in their desired field, their next most common source of paychecks is serving as “miscellaneous managers, including funeral service.” So elucidates this intriguing flow diagram showing how college […]

The financial ramifications of dropping out of high school hurt more than the individual. It’s estimated that half of all Americans on public assistance are dropouts. If all of the dropouts from the class of 2011 had earned diplomas, the nation would benefit from an estimated $154 billion in income over their working lifetimes. Potentially […]

Located in the heart of Boston, Northeastern University has a lot to offer. One program that takes my school to the next level, however, is the co-op program. To put it simply, when a student is on co-op, they are working during the semester instead of taking classes. It’s like a preview of the real […]

Beginning June 1, researchers from the Northeastern University Marine Science Center in Nahant will spend 31 days deep in the ocean with Fabien Cousteau, grandson of famed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau. On June 15 at 7 p.m., they will still be at the bottom of the sea but will engage in a live chat with people […]

Earlier this week, as Europe was preparing for continent-wide parliamentary elections that delivered 25 percent of the seats to the anti–European Union populist right and left, Hungary was busy asking the EU Parliament to revoke diplomatic immunity for Béla Kovács, a prominent representative of Hungary’s far-right Jobbik party, in order to charge him with spying […]

On both sides of the Atlantic, last weekend was a particularly bloody time. In Isla Vista, near the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara, six students were shot to death by Elliot Rodger, a young man who blamed everybody but himself for his inability to attract women. Hours later, a gun-toting terrorist […]

It’s finally time to start your college journey, and the first step is completing your freshman orientation. For international students, this might be the first time you actually visit your school, so do a bit of research on the area where your school is located beforehand. This is an exciting opportunity to get a taste […]

Open wide, this won’t hurt a bit. That might actually be true if the dentist’s drill is replaced by a promising low-powered laser that can prompt stem cells to make damaged hard tissue in teeth grow back. Such minimally invasive treatment could one day offer an easy way to repair or regrow our pearly whites. […]

The precedent for teaching students to build applications for wearable technology doesn’t exist. “There’s no textbook, ” said Rupal Patel, an associate professor in Northeastern University’s Department of Speech Language Pathology and Audiology. “Building [wearable] technology for health issues is a whole new area.” There isn’t even a reliable Google Glass manual. “The devices are […]

In the months after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., some 40 gun control bills were filed in Massachusetts. Many expected a crackdown that would have gone further and faster than other states. Instead, a special commission spent a year carefully crafting an omnibus bill that DeLeo, who is considered a conservative Democrat in Massachusetts, […]