President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare law will not be nearly as productive without the individual mandate included, said healthcare policy analyst Jonathan Gruber. Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute...

Massachusetts lost its standing last week as the state with the fifth largest job growth in 2011, falling to tenth lowest in the nation, according to recently released data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor...

When College of Arts and Sciences senior Sara Garcia interviewed with a local nonprofit for a research internship last summer, she was surprised, she said, when the interviewer asked her to guess how many...

Intelligence is influenced by not few, but many genes, according to a recent study from Harvard University, Cornell University and Union College. Over the years, many studies have linked particular genes...

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown has taken the lead during his bid for re-election by no more than 10 percent over Elizabeth Warren in recent polls. In four out of five surveys conducted in the past month, the...

Ron Leaks of Somerville has had “rough Valentine’s Days” in the past and wanted a way to release his frustration. On Tuesday, instead of succumbing to unrequited love, he joined about a dozen people...

The Internet hacker group Anonymous, acting in protest of the police response to Occupy Boston, claimed credit for a recent cyber-attack on the Boston Police Department’s website. The site, BPDNews.com,...