Can you detect someone’s emotional state just by looking at his face? It sure seems like it. In everyday life, you can often “read” what someone is feeling with the quickest of glances. Hundreds of scientific studies support the idea that the face is a kind of emotional beacon, clearly and universally signaling the full […]

There’s a new way to get to Martha’s Vineyard, and it isn’t by car, bus, or train. It’s in someone else’s plane. Two flying enthusiasts, both students at North­eastern University, recently launched Flytenow, a service that matches pilots with people wanting to fly small. Matt Voska and Alan Guichard hope to help pilots share the […]

With the ever-increasing desire for faster, smaller and more powerful computers, developments in engineering information technology are in high demand. Researchers at Northeastern University have taken a step toward making speedier digital devices by using carbon nanotubes in electronic systems, according to a news release. Yung Joon Jung, an associate professor in NU’s Department of […]

Want your computer to go faster? Add light! Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have developed novel devices that could usher in a new wave of highly efficient electronics, including computers, that can be turned on and off using light. Every second, your computer must process billions of computational steps to produce even the simplest outputs. […]

Official government data on hate crime has not shown significant increases in recent years, as crime rates overall have also fallen. The Bureau of Justice Statistics victimization survey of households nationwide found that in the latest year, 2012, there were an estimated 293,800 hate crimes in the United States, an estimate similar to that of […]

That celebrity aspect is critical when you’re trying to put such stories into perspective, according to Dan Lebowitz, the executive director for the Sports in Society center at Boston’s Northeastern University. Because “celebrity culture drives the news cycle” and because star athletes are celebrities, he says, these kinds of stories are read and spread everywhere. […]

After complaining recently about language anachronisms in Showtime’s (otherwise excellent) “Masters of Sex,” I lamented thusly: “There are no production designers for language, but there ought to be.” I’ve since learned that there are some: one is Ben Schmidt, a thirty-three-year-old historian at Northeastern University. Schmidt managed to get paid for performing this service for […]

India’s use of flexibilities in connection with intellectual property (IP) is being strongly challenged by a section of United States’ industry. This month, the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) held public hearings in Washington DC as part of its investigation titled “Trade, Investment and Industrial Policies in India: Effects on the US Economy”. Industry […]

Some researchers have found their work limited too, according to Glen Pierce, a gun policy expert at Northeastern University. Pierce says that before Tiahrt, he could access ATF data, down to the dealer level, to be used to understand just how the gun trade works. Now, he says, the big data sets are hard to […]

When opera was a much younger art form, star singers could choose which arias they wanted to sing, often swapping in favorite numbers that showed off their voices to best advantage for whatever the lowly composers and librettists had originally written. Now audiences at the Metropolitan Opera will have an opportunity to see this venerable […]

Mayor Marty Walsh joined Northeastern University President Dr. Joseph Aoun, faculty, students and fellow elected officials at a groundbreaking celebration last Friday, February 21, for the university’s new Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Complex. Northeastern’s new $225 million ISEC facility, located at 795 Columbus Avenue, thanks to “state-of-the-art infrastructure,” could ultimately bolster NU’s ability to attract […]

t’s a curious phenomenon, the “death row groupies” who become enamored with men who committed some of the most vile crimes you can imagine. When Scott Peterson arrived at California’s San Quentin State Prison fresh off a conviction of murdering his wife and unborn child, he received a marriage proposal within the first hour. “These […]