Northeastern University’s IDEA venture accelerator is running throughout the summer for the first time this year, with 11 startups taking part. They include a startup producing organic bottled cocktails (Willo Cocktails) and a startup developing a cigarette case that aims to encourage quitting (Layla).

Last month, Northeastern announced the Northeastern University Center for Entrepreneurship Education. The program intends to teach entrepreneurship and business skills, while bringing students and alumni together to develop new ventures. IDEA will play a crucial role in the Center. We spoke with Dan Gregory, IDEA faculty advisor and a key coordinator in the development process.

Despite the Obama administration’s big win before the Supreme Court yesterday, the legal challenges to Obamacare are far from over, lawyers and health policy experts say.

The U.S. gross domestic product rose at a slower annualized rate of 1.9 percent in the first three months of 2012, as local economists placed the blame on looming federal budget cuts, the European debt crisis and economic slowdown in China.

Monday’s 5-4 Supreme Court decision disallowing mandatory life sentences without parole for defendants convicted of murder perpetrated before their 18th birthday moves us significantly closer to a rational system for punishing young offenders. It provides hope for hundreds of prisoners around the country, including more than 60 in Massachusetts, who until now saw no chance […]

Our roster of legal experts gives their assessment of the supreme court’s historic decision on Obama’s healthcare law. Martha Davis: ‘If states opt out of Medicaid expansion, it will be the uninsured working poor who suffer’ The complete meaning of Thursday’s supreme court opinion will only become clear as future cases construe it. But as […]

When six Northeastern seniors found themselves stalling at actually starting their startups, they knew they needed to take action — an action that would not only help them, but help fellow students at Northeastern. So, they approached the then dean of Northeastern’s College of Business Administration Thomas Moore with one big idea: IDEA, Northeastern’s student-run venture […]

An aggressive red seaweed that hails from Japan has invaded the Massachusetts shoreline, threatening native wildlife, jeopardizing tourism, and causing a stink for beachfront residents.

Millions of cargo containers are unloaded from ships each year at American seaports, providing countless opportunities for terrorists to smuggle and unleash a nuclear bomb or weapon of mass destruction on our shores.

With the supreme court ruling Thursday on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, our experts call the outcome, 4-1.  

Lawmakers and law enforcement officials continue to grapple with the impact of yesterday’s major Supreme Court ruling regarding juveniles and the criminal justice system. The court ruled 5-4 that juveniles convicted of murder cannot be sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Carnegie Mellon University has another high profile job opening. This time, it’s the head of the department of mechanical engineering.