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Microsoft outage exposes risks of growing reliance on tech providers

Major global outages have increasingly far-reaching consequences as companies grow more reliant on a handful of large corporations.
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The researcher creating AI vision models as powerful as the human eye

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Could excavation have contributed to the Brooklyn building collapse?

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How does a limestone-eating worm safely reproduce in a roaring river?

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AI agents are developing odd dialects humans struggle to follow

AI agents are using familiar words in some very unfamiliar ways. Will leaving humans out of the loop be the new normal?
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AI is changing what’s in store for new hires and managers alike

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Northeastern professor builds a better battery, wins acclaim.

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Seattle students research on the road with sensor-filled Ford Mustang

A person on the deck of a large ship lowers a robotic device over the side by a cable, beside an orange life ring on the railing.

How do you clean a giant ship? This student builds robots for the job

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This grad helps run the Amazon of the medical device world

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Space industry co-op helped Northeastern student build confidence

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How this Northeastern student is giving a voice to nonverbal students

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How vulnerable are the 2026 midterm elections to cyberattacks?

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How to speak whale

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The researchers using AI to avert another Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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Disasters and debt. Escaping the ‘climate-debt doom loop’

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Love sloths? A little space can make a big difference

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Helping to restore an icon to New England marshes and dinner plates

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For most, El Niño's wrath conjures fear. For some, it inspires art

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Northeastern researchers develop cognitive testing app for at home use

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What does a healthy brain look like? Turns out it's all relative.

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Boston’s rats are talking. Scientists are listening with AI

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A spider in disguise puts wildlife travel habits in the spotlight

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Is an arms race in space on the near horizon?

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Researchers open up a can of worms to study how brains work

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Northeastern cosmologists to study space mysteries after Roman launch

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Researcher investigates how people get into the urban mix