US employers added only 80,000 jobs in June, the third straight month of weak hiring and a potential setback for the campaign to reelect President Obama, who on Friday called on voters to take a long view of the slowly recovering economy, but was slammed by rivals for the persistently dismal jobs numbers. Although Friday’s […]

How much is a college worth? For every dollar society puts into a school — either through direct government funding or by granting tax-exempt status — how much public benefit is realized? It is a deceptively simple question that has defied an easy answer. But as tuitions rise and the economy drags, there is a […]

All eyes will be on the federal jobs report today, with President Obama hoping that June’s employment numbers surpass last month’s dismal growth. Several economists pointed yesterday to the ADP National Employment Report showing jobs growth in the private sector increased by 176,000 last month, which, if confirmed by the federal government’s figures today, would […]

It was patriotism that prompted Angelo Giambusso to join the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942. Seventy years later, Giambusso, 88, who lives at Edgewood Retirement Community with his wife, Terry, said he still gets a “tingle” when he hears “The Star-Spangled Banner” or “God Bless America.” He was proud to be an American during […]

If Saudi Arabia insists on remaining the last holdout against allowing females to compete, their invitation to Britain is revoked. “You’ve got a single country that’s being intransigent,” Martha Davis, a law professor at Northeastern University who specializes in women’s rights, said Thursday. “Certainly in the past, after years of apartheid, the Olympic bureaucracy was […]

Coral reefs along Panama’s Pacific coast completely collapsed for 2,500 years due to natural climate cycles, researchers reported in a study Thursday, adding that there’s a lesson in the data for man-made climate change: ease up on greenhouse gasses and reefs will restore themselves.  

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a novel biomimetic strategy that delivers life-saving nanotherapeutics directly to obstructed blood vessels, dissolving blood clots before they cause serious damage or even death. This new approach enables thrombus dissolution while using only a fraction of the drug dose normally required, […]

David DeSteno, director of the social emotions lab at Northeastern University, demonstrates one of his experiments designed to isolate and quantify feelings of jealousy in a laboratory setting. DeSteno sets up a budding love triangle between three human subjects — one is unwitting, the other two are in on it. The unaware participant is then […]

Definitions of American patriotism are as diverse as Americans. Political philosopher and Northeastern University professor Stephen Nathanson explores the subject in his book “Patriotism, Morality, and Peace.” He writes that patriotism is generally characterized by “special affection for one’s own country; a sense of personal identification with the country; special concern for the well-being of the country; and willingness […]

Seattle imports high-tech talent, and Boston exports. So it makes sense that one of the big players in Boston’s competitive higher education market, Northeastern University, would see a new niche opening up across the country, where it can help feed a fast-growing high-tech cluster with more brainpower.

If you’ve visited the beach lately, you may have caught a whiff of a particularly funky odor. That stench comes from an invasive species of seaweed from Asia that has made its way to the East Coast. Greater Boston’s Adam Reilly investigates the beach’s smelly new inhabitant.

For three blissful days earlier this month, Raquel, a housekeeper living in Lynn, thought President Obama’s recent announcement on immigration — that illegal immigrants brought here as children would not face deportation and could apply for work permits — would solve all her problems.