By the end of the decade, Boston’s subways could grow so packed that trains would roll past waiting commuters, unable to accommodate more riders, a new report from a leading land-use think tank warns.

Four years after Governor Deval Patrick signed a $1 billion initiative designed to boost the Massachusetts life sciences industry, the program has brought new companies and jobs to the state – but not as many jobs as originally anticipated.

Summer jobs for teenagers are increasingly hard to find. Only 3 out of every 10 teenagers held a full- or part-time job in July of 2011. In 1989, that rate was nearly twice as high: nearly 6 of every 10 teenagers from 16 to 19 years old held jobs, and even in July of 2005, […]

The HyCycle isn’t the kind of thing you’d want to have to take through airport security — at least not in its present state. The electricity-generating electric bike prototype is bit of a mess of wires and blinking boards at the moment, plus a battery that looks an awful lot like a block of C4. […]

Kids today may not be running around the neighborhood without fear like Beaver Cleaver, but the country is in the midst of low levels of crime not seen in decades, according to a report released this week by the FBI. Violent crime, which has been falling for five years, decreased 4 percent in 2011, according to […]

It seems like everyone’s got a solution for workout tracking, these days, and the undergrad students at Northeastern University are no different. We traveled to the bowels of the Boston school’s Egan Research Center, to try the Squid Shirt that we saw back in February on for size.

A pair of immigrant brothers has built a $40 million business selling iPhones, Hummer parts, and other coveted foreign goods to merch-starved Russians. And the company is headquartered in Skokie, Illinois, of all places.

Catherine Greig enters federal court Tuesday for sentencing with the hope that the judge will deem her a victim of love who should not be harshly punished for the crimes of gangster James “Whitey’’ Bulger.

The Department of Homeland Security will miss an initial deadline of July 12 to comply with a sweeping federal law meant to thwart terrorist attacks arriving by sea, frustrating border security advocates who worry that the agency has not done enough to prevent dangerous cargo from coming through the country’s ocean gateways, including the Port […]

Back in October, we gave you a list of 13 top Boston area professors, deans and presidents you needed to be following on Twitter, ranging from Boston University’s Dean of Students Kenn Elmore to Tufts President Anthony Monaco. Eight months later, we’re back at it again, providing you with 13 more professionals working in academia that deserve to have […]

The number of crimes reported to police dropped again last year compared with 2010, but a closer look at the numbers suggests the long annual line of declines in crime levels may have hit bottom.

Listening to Anthony Paul De Ritis’s Devolution is somewhat akin to watching a Tarsem film: The mixture of influences, references and textures is both blindingly apparent and blindingly gorgeous.