Somerville poised to offer $18m property tax break to lure life science company

Somerville’s City Council on Thursday evening will discuss giving up to $18 million in property-tax breaks for an unnamed company to occupy a 500,000-square-foot laboratory building somewhere in the city. The deal, known as a tax-increment...

New Boston Scientific facility opens

Boston Scientific cut the ribbon on their new 400,000 square foot research and development campus. MAPLE GROVE, Minn. — It was a big day for one of Minnesota's biggest med tech companies. Boston Scientific held a ribbon cutting for a new biotech...

Science dpa international Loose language model: AI shown to give inaccurate medical replies

Artificial intelligence (AI) has an inbuilt "sycophancy" that makes chatbots inclined to come across as "excessively helpful and agreeable" rather than give appropriate or accurate answers to medical queries. In a series of tests, large language...

After marathon meeting, Planning Commission recommends approval of New Boston Crossing developers’ changes to land use map

photo by: Sylas May/Journal-World An overflow crowd sits in City Hall's lobby during the Planning Commission's meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. In a marathon meeting that included more than an hour of public comments, planning commissioners on...

How Allan Rohan Crite built a family of Black artists in Boston

This is the third story in a three-part series on Boston artist Allan Rohan Crite. Read the first story here and the second story here. When artist Johnetta Tinker lost her father in the early 1980s, she was on the verge of pulling out of an...

Technology Futurism Hundreds of Power Players, From Steve Wozniak to Steve Bannon, Just Signed a Letter Calling for Prohibition on Development of AI Superintelligence

Hundreds of public figures — including multiple AI “godfathers” and a staggeringly idiosyncratic array of religious, media, and tech figures — just signed a letter calling for a “prohibition” on the race to build AI superintelligence. Simply...

If Massachusetts is so progressive, why couldn’t the first US IVF baby be born here?

Perhaps no one knows better than Elizabeth Carr, the first American baby born from in vitro fertilization, how fragile and fickle access to reproductive technology can be. She is a lifelong resident of Massachusetts, a state widely perceived to...

Massachusetts Partnership Pays Off for South Carolina

When a German manufacturer of blow-fill-seal (BFS) equipment for sterile pharmaceutical products looked to expand into the United States three decades ago, it initially considered a California site, until the Golden State’s high manufacturing...

Runners gear up for RDC Marathon in Durham supporting ALS research

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- On Sunday, October 26, hundreds of runners will take part in the annual RDC Marathon. The race features a full marathon, half marathon, 10K, and 5K in support of the Team Drea Foundation. The foundation was created by Andrea...

Scientists Create Artificial Neurons to Boost Computers by Mimicking the Human Brain

Beta lobe neurons. Credit: NICHD / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 Engineers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed artificial neurons that closely replicate the electrical activity of those in the human brain — a breakthrough that could...

Parking lot drug exchanges. A $300,000 baby. In Massachusetts, fertility coverage shortfalls cost patients dearly.

It was midday when the nurse pulled her car into the Market Basket parking lot in Hanover and sidled up to a black SUV. She said hello to the SUV driver, a suburban mom she’d connected with in a private Facebook group. The driver got out and...

Hopkinton Today for Thursday, Oct. 23: Shah completes Jimmy Fund Walk for cancer research

Good morning, Hopkinton! Welcome to the daily update we call Hopkinton Today — a quick recap of yesterday’s news, highlights of what’s on tap, and a photo of the day. Manan Shah poses for a photo following his completion of the marathon route of...

Science ScienceAlert Geologists Discover Remnants of 'Proto Earth' Deep Underground

Earth was a broiling mass of lava and rock before it took the form that it has today, and scientists have for the first time discovered traces of that very early 'proto Earth', hidden away in the deepest and oldest rocks on our planet. The clues...

Jiminy Joros: This spider’s looks are more frightful than its bite, new research confirms

Spiders can be found in spades this time of year, both the fake Halloween variety as well as a large yellow species crawling around certain parts of South Carolina. Arachnophobia aside, not much about the real ones are all that scary in real life....

What You Need to Know Ahead of Waters Corporation's Earnings Release

Milford, Massachusetts-based Waters Corporation (WAT) is a global leader in analytical instruments and laboratory technologies. Valued at a market cap of $21.4 billion, the company’s products and services are widely used in industries such as...

Highlights and points of Boston Celtics 116 -117 Philadelphia 76ers in NBA 2025-26

EVENT ENDED Philadelphia claimed a dramatic road win in Boston, edging the Celtics 117–116 in a tense, back-and-forth contest. The 76ers’ poise and defensive resilience down the stretch proved decisive in securing this memorable triumph. Image:...

Med-device startup led by former Boston Scientific execs looks to triple its workforce in Waltham

Now that Amplitude Vascular Systems is ready to start selling its medical device, the company needs a place to make it. That’s a big reason why AVS has left its Seaport digs for a much larger home in Waltham. AVS just opened its new headquarters...

Engineering leaders need to use AI. These experts have some tips 

What can engineering leaders do to prepare their businesses to be AI-ready? Invest in data infrastructure, train up their workforce, and lean on subject matter experts, says these Northeastern researchers. Abishek Murthy discusses how business...

Girod says KU, higher education need to better understand details of proposed compact with federal government

photo by: Chad Lawhorn/Journal-World University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod, center, is pictured with Wichita State President Richard Muma, left, and K-State President Richard Linton, right, on July 30, 2025 at the Kansas Board of Regents'...

Pune Mourns Passing of Senior Space Scientist Dr. Eknath Chitnis at 100

Pune, 22nd October 2025: Senior space scientist and Padma Bhushan awardee Dr. Eknath Vasant Chitnis passed away on Wednesday morning in Pune. He would have celebrated his 100th birthday on July 25, 2025. Dr. Chitnis was a pioneering figure in...