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.

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 […]