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The Northeastern community in Boston has another dining option this week, as Nuba, a new cafe from the local store Nubian Markets, is opening Wednesday to bring the flavors of the African diaspora to 742 Columbus Ave. But flavor is not all that Nuba brings. “The cultural grounding that Nuba is bringing is a connection to people, to traditions, that make Roxbury what it is,” said Ismail Samad, the owner of Nuba.

You might remember her as the cheerleader with superpowers, a country singer chasing stardom in Nashville or a teenager determined to prove that a zebra can race against thoroughbreds. Hayden Panettiere grew up on screen and became famous for her roles in the hit sci-fi series “Heroes,” the country music drama “Nashville” and the family comedy “Racing Stripes.” Panettiere passed away at age 36 on Sunday, August 16th at a residence in Greenville, South Carolina.

From appealing to the Supreme Court to issuing an Executive Order, President Donald Trump has made the idea of birthright citizenship a central issue  for his administration to tackle. The Supreme Court in June ruled against curtailing the 14th Amendment’s provision of birthright citizenship, or the idea that anyone born in the U.S. — with some exceptions — is automatically a citizen.

Haroon Hublikar, a computer science Ph.D. student, installs motion markers on a robot during a dexterous manipulation test in the EXP robotics high bay lab. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

OAKLAND – On a recent evening, I found myself seeking advice from an intimate source on my personal goals and ambitions. My listener was held captive as I spoke, observing my guarded body language and ensuring that I was safe to be vulnerable in their presence. But who — or rather, what — I was addressing wasn’t a real person. It was an AI Mom.

The “rusty patched” bumblebee, Bombus affinis to bug nerds, hasn’t been seen buzzing around most of its native New England since 1999. It was last spotted on the East Coast in 2009, just south of Bangor, Maine. And that’s bad news for the bug world and for humans, as this and other wild bees, such as the rusty patched type, which are about as long as a penny and have an orange band around their abdomens. They are crucial pollinators, helping to grow food for both people and wildlife.

A Northeastern student wheels her belongings in a red bin on the Boston campus. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University

A few months ago, AI made headlines for cracking a mathematical puzzle that had stumped experts for decades. Mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit-distance conjecture predicting how many pairs of points could sit the same distance apart. AI proved it wrong by tracking down a group of infinite counterexamples to the solution Erdős proposed. Although there was no single mathematician to congratulate, the solution was also the result of a kind of collaboration.

Age 45: You’ve made it to middle age, you’re ideally entering your prime earning years, and, if you’re like most adults, your doctor tells you that it’s time to consider your first colonoscopy to screen for colorectal cancer. But why age 45? It’s the same age when the American Cancer Society (ACS) recommends that women begin getting mandatory annual mammograms. Or, for that matter, or age 50 for most men to begin discussions with their doctor about prostate cancer screenings?

Thousands of social media addiction lawsuits will continue as planned, despite an attempt from Meta and YouTube to quash them before they even started. In a recent unanimous decision, a U.S. appeals court rejected an appeal by social media companies, which argued that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act immunized them from lawsuits and should therefore be dismissed.