Uncertainty about the economy is a major reason, said Alicia Sasser Modestino, an economist at Northeastern University in Boston. 

The nationwide survey from the Civic Health and Institutions Project, which is made up of researchers from Rutgers, Harvard and Northeastern Universities as well as the University of Rochester, asked respondents about their views on cuts to grant funding at the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation as well as layoffs at science […]

“The number of years a given individual lives over 65 has been steadily increasing,” says Mindy Marks, an economics professor at Northeastern University. “That’s going to make that group a larger and larger share of any population block.”

“The institutional quality that the U.S. had in terms of being a safe haven has been really undermined,” says Bilge Erten, a professor of economics at Northeastern University. “Why would you invest in U.S. assets when you know that the U.S. dollar is likely to continue to lose value?”

Explaining why these states have more older adults than children, Mindy Marks, a professor of economics at Northeastern University, Massachusetts, told Newsweek “one reason is immigration,” or more precisely, a lack of it.

Malihe Alikhani, an assistant professor of artificial intelligence at Northeastern University’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences and a visiting fellow at the Center on Regulation and Markets at the Brookings Institution, has been studying this phenomenon and investigating what happens when large language models parrot human inputs too eagerly.

As Wired’s Ana Lagos reported, James Monaghan’s lab at Northeastern University has been probing the axolotl’s freakish regenerative talents, hoping to uncover secrets that could revolutionize human medicine and maybe even one day become walking, talking Ships of Theseus.

Salamanders famously have the ability to regrow their limbs, but “one of the outstanding questions that has really plagued the field is how a salamander knows what to grow,” said James Monaghan, a Northeastern University biologist, to The Washington Post.

In fact, the far-reaching geography makes a serial killer theory less likely, according to James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.

Peter Simon, professor at Northeastern University’s Department of Economics, told Newsweek that economic uncertainty “is still a big issue in the world given the new war between Israel and Iran and especially now that the US is involved.”

“Trademark infringement has been found in plenty of cases in which defendant’s mark is spelled differently from plaintiff’s but pronounced the same, even when the two terms have different meanings,” Alexandra Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University tells Fast Company. 

Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University, said making Juneteenth a federal holiday gave it fresh significance to the US.