When they appear on stage, Heather Knight, a robotics graduate student, and Data, her stand-up-comedy-performing robot, seem like a futuristic Odd Couple. Ms. Knight is tall, blond and human while Data—sheathed in a white plastic shell and about a third her size—resembles a RoboCop action figure.

Michael Oren, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S, called Israel America’s “ultimate ally.”

Imagine a real-life version of Harry Potter’s magical Marauder’s Map, which showed the location of everyone prowling throughout Hogwarts castle. That’s what startup Xandem is building: a new kind of all-seeing motion-detection system that’s poised to shake up the security market.

The Massachusetts economy gained jobs for the fourth consecutive month in March as the state unemployment rate fell to the lowest level in more than three years.

Staggered boards have long been a key mechanism for insulating boards of publicly traded firms from shareholders. This year, several institutional investors and a program working on their behalf have used shareholder proposals to move a large number of publicly traded firms away from such structures. Despite strong and expected criticism from the usual suspects, […]

Dawn Makrinikolas has been a letter carrier in North Attleborough for 10 years. She loves her job – sorting mail in the morning, going on the road with her deliveries, chatting with customers she serves.

In observance of Patriots Day, the National Archives in Waltham will host historian William Fowler Jr. to speak on Thursday, April 19 at 6 p.m. about his new work on the American Revolution.

Massachusetts gained nearly 39,000 new jobs during the first nine months of 2011, according to a new report that paints a far brighter picture of the state’s recent economic growth than did federal statistics released last month.

As details emerge on the kidnapping of an infant in Texas on Tuesday, psychologists said the woman who allegedly committed the crime seemed to fit a familiar profile of an infant abductor: a woman who desperately wanted a baby.

Launching equipment into space is an expensive business: it costs $10,000 (£6,300) to lift every 0.45kg (1lb) of stuff into orbit. Making things smaller and lighter is, therefore, a natural route to reducing the cost of launching a spacecraft. It is no surprise then that the principles of nanotechnology – and the potential to reduce the […]

Launching equipment into space is an expensive business: it costs $10,000 (£6,300) to lift every 0.45kg (1lb) of stuff into orbit. Making things smaller and lighter is, therefore, a natural route to reducing the cost of launching a spacecraft. It is no surprise then that the principles of nanotechnology – and the potential to reduce […]

The virtual doctor won’t see you just yet. But that day is getting closer. Today’s health-care industry is making increasing use of Web-based virtual agents and avatars, or computerized assistants, not only to perform clerical duties but also to dispense medical information.