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A new eco­nomic fore­cast released by the New Eng­land Eco­nomic Part­ner­ship offers an opti­mistic out­look for  Mass­a­chu­setts and for the region as a whole over the next five years. Anchored by a pro­jected rise in … read more »

North­eastern Uni­ver­sity announced today that it is launching a cam­paign to raise $1 bil­lion by 2017, according to a state­ment on the university’s web­site. The uni­ver­sity said in the state­ment that it … read more »

With Lyme dis­ease the fastest growing vector-​​​​borne ill­ness in the nation, the urgency of advancing research is greater than ever before. Lyme Research Alliance is awarding half a mil­lion dol­lars to fund … read more »

Holding sev­eral part-​​​​time jobs, living with friends, making do without employer-​​​​provided ben­e­fits and never expecting to achieve your par­ents’ stan­dard of living: it’s all become rou­tine for today’s youngest entrants … read more »

Fol­lowing the news last week that the Depart­ment of Jus­tice had secretly obtained records of phone calls made by the Asso­ci­ated Press in an attempt to find an infor­ma­tion leak, … read more »

Danger can lurk onboard cruise ships too, according to critics, espe­cially because of heavy drinking and the cut-​​​​loose atmos­phere of some ships. Rates for sexual assault on cruise ships seem … read more »

HONG KONG — The Boston Marathon bomb­ings last month hit the home of some of the world’s greatest uni­ver­si­ties. As the terror and vio­lence played out in America’s edu­ca­tion and research hub, … read more »

Non­verbal cues to all kinds of uncon­scious give­aways tend to occur in clus­ters – a group of move­ments, pos­tures and actions that col­lec­tively point to a par­tic­ular state of mind. This … read more »

The Bay State’s economy will grow slowly this year before bouncing back in 2014, while the state’s unem­ploy­ment rate is poised to fall to 5.2 per­cent by the last quarter … read more »

We’ve reported a lot on Boston’s health rank­ings. We were ranked the second fittest city in the U.S. by Forbes and Mass­a­chu­setts was ranked the second fittest state by the same pub­li­ca­tion. United Health Foun­da­tion ranked Mass. fourth in the … read more »

In the mid-1990s, as the Human Genome Project was in full swing, sci­en­tists started thinking about the pro­tein com­ple­ment of the genome, and proteomics—the iden­ti­fi­ca­tion and char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of all of an … read more »

Joe Lane, jug­gling a job and family, wanted to get an MBA, but didn’t like the idea of doing a pro­gram entirely online. Then he found a solu­tion: Babson College’s Fast … read more »