‘Great kid, great attitude': Former coaches praise Mass. native after $500K kick

With half a million dollars on the line, Vanderbilt University sophomore Tyler Hwang was locked in. The alum from Dover-Sherborn High School in Massachusetts was selected at random over the weekend to kick a 33-yard field goal on ESPN's "College...

Harvard’s Congressional Districts Hit Hard By Federal Funding Shutdown

Harvard’s congressional districts have seen the largest funding cuts in Massachusetts as the federal government enters the twenty-seventh day of the shutdown. Massachusetts has lost more than $500 million in grants for transportation and energy...

Arts And Culture At The Forefront Of Boston’s Vision For The Future

Boston, Massachusetts, USA - February 18, 2023: The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) is an art museum and exhibition space located in Boston. The museum was founded as the Boston Museum of Modern Art in 1936. Since then it has gone through...

Pega Named a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ and Recognized in Critical Capabilities Report for Business Orchestration and Automation Technology

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 24, 2025-- Pegasystems Inc. (NASDAQ: PEGA), The Enterprise Transformation Company TM, today announced that Gartner has named Pega a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Orchestration and Automation...

Independent grocers nationwide adopt Instacart technology for in-store, online operations

Photo: Instacart October 24, 2025 Independent grocers across the United States are increasingly adopting Instacart's enterprise technology solutions, including Caper Carts, Storefront Pro and FoodStorm, to modernize both in-store and online...

Playing the long game | Data Driven

It’s become a bit of a tradition for me to recap the Nobel Prizes in my column: In 2023, I covered Claudia Goldin’s work in economics, and in 2024, I broke down the impact of AI on the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This year, however, I want to focus...

Award for engineering firm with focus on 'sustainability and heritage'

A ROTHERHAM engineering company has been recognised for its work to “enhance the local environment through innovative and responsible building practices” with a major civic accolade. AESSEAL has been presented with the Stan Crowther Environmental...

Several Boston neighborhoods report sudden uptick in apartment vacancies

Boston, one of America’s renowned hubs for higher education, attracts thousands of students each year, in addition to scores of working professionals. Yet, more than a month after Boston residents moved into new apartments the first week of...

Telangana eyes Rs 1 lakh crore investments in life sciences by 2030

Over the past 20 months, Telangana has attracted Rs 3.2 lakh crore in investments, including Rs 63,000 crore in life sciences. Exports from the sector touched Rs 26,000 crore between April and December 2024. The state aims to grow its life...

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...

AI chatbots are sycophants — researchers say it's harming science

AI’s inclination to be helpful affects many of the tasks that researchers use LLMs for.Credit: Smith Collection/Gado/GettyArtificial intelligence (AI) models are 50% more sycophantic than humans, an analysis published this month has found. The...

As pension plans evolve, workers bear a growing share of the risk

Traditional defined benefit pensions — once the cornerstone of retirement security — have largely vanished from the workplace as employers moved the responsibility for saving and investing onto workers. New research shows that even the remaining...

Chemonucleolysis for Lumbar Disc Herniation: History and Current State of the Technology

Introduction Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is defined as the extrusion of the nucleus pulposus (and/or annulus fibrosus) beyond the normal margins of the intervertebral disc, compressing the spinal nerve roots. LDH occurs in an estimated 1% to 3%...

Massachusetts Campaign To Roll Back Marijuana Legalization Law Is ‘On Track’ To Make 2026 Ballot, Spokesperson Says

A Massachusetts campaign says it is “on track” to collect enough signatures to put an initiative on the 2026 ballot that would roll back key aspects of adult-use marijuana legalization in the state. Meanwhile, some in the cannabis reform community...

Scientists Say We Might Be One Step Away from Breathing Through Our Butts

Credit: Unsplash/Deon Black. Imagine this: doctors saving a suffocating patient not by inserting a breathing tube, but by funneling an oxygen-rich liquid through the rectum. It sounds like something straight out of an Ig Nobel award ceremony —...

A Planet's Oeuvre: How Mars Symphony, Drawn From Caltech and JPL Research, Melds Music and Science

Credit: Raja Palanimurugan “Welcome to Mars.” This is how David Ibbett, composer of Mars Symphony, introduces his piece to the audience. And when he tells them that all the sounds they are about to experience were recorded from the surface of the...

Researchers from URI find no evidence to justify ‘cocoon therapy’ for pediatric concussions

KINGSTON, R.I. – Oct. 22, 2025 – Through the 1990s and early 2000s, guidelines for treating a concussion called for complete mental and physical rest. Current guidelines recommend a gradual resumption of cognitive and physical activity while...

It’s Time to Ban Junk Science Theory in Family Court

Society tells children that if someone has hurt them, they should tell a trusted adult. But the reality is often not that simple. In 34% of child sexual abuse cases reported to law enforcement, the abuser is a family member. And when it comes to...

Chris Rapczynski navigates Boston’s $3 million luxury home market in 2025

When Chris Rapczynski founded Sleeping Dog Properties in 1993 at the age of 25, Boston’s luxury homes cost a fraction of their current prices. Three decades later, he’s navigating an entirely different landscape where luxury housing values crossed...

Trump Claimed ​Wind Farms Kill Whales—and Then Quietly Axed Research Into the Issue

An endangered North Atlantic right whale breaches off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in March 2024.Stan Grossfeld/Boston Globe via Getty Images Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones...