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Why Europe matters to Mass.
Heat Trace Products LLC, a Leominster manufacturer of cables for heating and cooling, weathered the 2008 recession by finding international markets for its products. Today, Europe accounts for more than one-third of its sales.
Downtown Boston is trying to find its post-pandemic identity. It’s fighting an uphill battle.
A Northeastern University study of cellphone data found that when COVID hit, inhabitants of Greater Boston became far less likely to interact with people of different socioeconomic backgrounds.
Business Insider
Rare earth minerals are the biggest card China can play in its negotiations with Trump
“China built up its industry in a cheap and not necessarily ecologically refined manner, and the US said, ‘That’s very inexpensive, so we do not need to have this kind of industry in our country,'” Laura Lewis, professor of chemical engineering at the Northeastern University College of Engineering, saud. “And that was the case for […]
ABC News
Juneteenth festival organizers focus on ‘resilience’ amid attacks on DEI initiatives
“The current administration has made it very clear in as many ways as it could that it’s no longer friendly to the idea that the country should continue to mark the racial history of the past as something affecting the present. They kind of want to wipe the history away and start from scratch,” Jeremy […]
C&EN
These quantum switches need a materials makeover
At the heart of today’s most advanced quantum computers sits a device called a Josephson junction. “The Josephson junction is the transistor of quantum computing,” says Kin Chung Fong, an engineer at Northeastern University, Burlington.
NECN
Job crisis for 20-somethings
It’s new data that makes many fear today’s 20-somethings may be “a lost generation,” numbers showing that far too many people in that age group are struggling to find meaningful jobs or settling for part-time work well below what they’re capable of doing.
Center for American Progress
Think Again: Charles Murray and the Power of Mainstream Media Amnesia
Liberals are always searching for a conservative whom they consider to be honest, intelligent, and worthy of respectful debate. They have, sad to say, been harder and harder to find in recent years as the conservative movement has drifted away from its 20th century embrace of the precepts of the Enlightenment and normative science into […]
Gizmodo
What if Tamagotchi-Like Toys Were Really Alive? These Researchers Just Made It Happen
The stakes are arguably higher for SquidKid, a bioreactor housing real, bioluminescent bacteria that young users can feed, nurture, and observe. SquidKid, a finalist of the International Biodesign Challenge hosted by Northeastern University, “encourages curiosity and care for the microbial world,” according to its official introduction.
The superconductivity of layered graphene is surprisingly strange
Kin Chung Fong at Northeastern University in Massachusetts was stunned when another physicist, Abhishek Banerjee at Harvard University, told him a number over dinner.
Her son shot himself by accident with her gun. Should she be charged with a felony?
Matthew Miller, a doctor and professor at Northeastern and Harvard universities, said the intent behind the laws is solid: Children are safer when they cannot get to guns. But when Miller, the study’s lead author, and his colleagues examined the data, they didn’t find the preventative effect that had been reported.
ESPN
Next level
If you’re an athlete, your skills, ambition and work ethic are supposed to determine your career path, rather than nepotism or insider connections. Which means you can come from anywhere and succeed. Clint Dempsey grew up in a trailer park in South Texas, playing soccer with migrant kids from across the Mexican border. LeBron James […]
What the JD Vance couch jokes say about social media this election season
Vance’s critics online continued to share the rumor even as it became clear it wasn’t true. “Even if they acknowledge deep down that this is not an empirical fact, it’s kind of fun to talk about,” said John Wihbey, an associate professor of media innovation and technology at Northeastern University.