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

A new project explores the hidden social lives of Boston’s rats — and gives the city fresh intel on unwelcome neighbors.
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These Northeastern professors are ‘sculpting’ radio waves

Close-up of a police body-worn camera clipped to the chest of a dark uniform shirt.

AI turns bodycam footage into text. Can it keep the speakers straight?

A participant gestures toward an easel pad covered in sticky notes while talking with someone across the table.

Oakland students think up tech solutions to combat illegal dumping

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Researchers aim to keep New England seafood local from boat to plate

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This illustration photo shows a user interacting with a smartphone app to customize an avatar for a personal artificial intelligence chatbot.

AI chatbots linked to psychological harm, Northeastern study finds

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One of the oldest psychedelics meets modern brain imaging

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What’s behind the Flock camera controversy?

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Student Aobo Liu works on a firefighting robot.

This robot can snuff out wildfires with cryogenic liquid

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Can scientists build a lie detector for AI chatbots?

Northeastern professor David Bau is studying how to make AI more interpretable and developing tools to make it easier to tell when it lies.
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A spider in disguise puts wildlife travel habits in the spotlight

Wendy the wasp spider has turned up in a new neighborhood in northern England. Climate change may be part of the reason.
Wang looks into a microscope eyepiece and adjusts a sample with a gloved hand as a nearby monitor displays rings of cells glowing green against a dark background.

Who knew? Cells have memory, professor describes in paper

Northeastern University professor’s research on mechanical memory of cells has promise for everything from skin wrinkles to cancer.
A robot head projected on to a computer screen, with a blurred figure passing by.

After weeks of AI doomsday warnings, experts want to shift the debate

The most pressing concerns linked to artificial intelligence are much more grounded in the present, Northeastern experts say. 
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This AI-powered chip can offer a deeper look at faulty brain activity

A Northeastern professor is developing a low-power implant that uses machine learning to analyze brain signals in real time.
Illustration of a car surrounded by disembodied eyes, with a beam of binary code connecting a central eye to the vehicle; icons for cloud storage, a personal ID, location tracking, and data charts surround the scene, symbolizing surveillance and data collection from connected vehicles.

Your car is collecting more data about you than you think

Northeastern professors tested 21 vehicles and their accompanying mobile apps to investigate what data manufacturers collect and share.

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