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As a heat wave grips Europe, lingering high temperatures expose the vulnerability of buildings and infrastructure. Roads in Germany buckled. Trains were canceled in France. People are grappling with how to cool down the buildings that were designed to trap heat in cooler climates. Meanwhile, large portions of the United States are set to experience their own heat wave with triple-digit temperatures over the July 4 holiday weekend. Can its infrastructure withstand this extreme heat?
Move over, GPT-Rosalind! On Tuesday, Anthropic announced the release of Claude Science — a platform that integrates over 60 scientific databases and computation tools in a single workplace. The result? Researchers have everything they need at their fingertips to solve complex problems and analyze results. Claude Science is Anthropic’s answer to GPT-Rosalind, the AI model designed to speed up research and drug discovery, released by OpenAI in April.
The 6-foot-6 pitcher wearing New York Yankees pinstripes rears back, steps gently down the mound and slings a 100-mph fastball that bends to the side at the last moment. Strike three. Such has been the fate of 118 MLB hitters in 2026 who have faced Cam Schlittler, a former Northeastern University Husky who now approaches the midseason All-Star break as the best pitcher in the American League, according to the statistics.
This post is part of NGN Offside, a blog about the 2026 FIFA World Cup, powered by data science. Brazil’s World Cup knockout match against Japan ended in a 2-1 victory for the South American team. But the Japanese team held its own against Brazil’s pressure early on, ending the first period with a 1-0 lead. So what tactical shifts might the Brazilians have deployed in the second half to claim the game? In part, a lot more crosses, according to data from Northeastern’s NetSI research group.
Former National Football League star running back Chris Johnson recently revealed that he has been diagnosed with the neurodegenerative disorder known as ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The first-round pick in the 2008 NFL draft, Johnson, 39, retired in 2017 and told “Good Morning America” that he felt he was in the prime of his life last year. Now, he can hardly move and has lost his ability to speak.
This post is part of NGN Offside, a blog about the 2026 FIFA World Cup, powered by data science. Paraguay defeated Germany 4-3 in a shootout in the World Cup Monday, marking one of the tournament’s biggest upsets. The victory vaulted lower-ranked Paraguay — No. 41 in FIFA’s rankings into the round of 16. That not only kicked No. 10 Germany out of the tournament but also gave the country its first ever penalty shootout loss in World Cup history.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, ensuring that every child born in the United States, regardless of their parents’ legal status, is a citizen and handing a victory to immigrant families and civil rights advocates. In a 6-3 decision Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled that there was no reason to depart from the 1898 decision that codified the right into law. In the case of United States v.
Hundreds of thousands of children would be left without a country if the Supreme Court rules that President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship in the U.S can stand, according to Northeastern legal experts. “No country on Earth would have a responsibility to accept them,” said Martha Davis, distinguished professor of law at Northeastern University, adding that such people wouldn’t have a right to live in the U.S. or likely anywhere else in the world.
Riyana Roy has been interested in cars ever since she was a Hot Wheels-collecting, NASCAR-watching child. Now, she’s designing them. Roy and the team of more than 100 engineers at Northeastern Electric Racing, a student club at Northeastern University, have poured their blood, sweat and tears into bringing custom, competition-ready electric race cars to life.