MARY LOU DiNARDO checked three times to make sure: was that a smiley face at the end of the latest e-mail from her most dour client?

The federal government routinely attaches conditions to its largesse that expand Washington’€™s reach to policy areas long under state control. This ‘€œregulation without representation’€ has become a serious problem that requires a powerful remedy.

How many times have you fallen asleep in a lecture hall, tired of hearing your professor drone on and on about literature, statistics or ethics? Imagine learning from a plush dragon, instead. Yes, you heard us correctly. Researchers from Northeastern University, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are examining how social robots can […]

Job interviews are, generally, not fun. You’€™re trying to prove your worth as quickly and efficiently as you can – sometimes in 20 minutes or less. If things don’€™t go quite right, before you know it you may find yourself getting the “€œDon’€™t call us”€€ line and a limp handshake.

Northeastern University has built a facility to serve as a testing ground for new homeland security technology.

It’s not just what they say.

U.S. policymakers continue to be frustrated by a stubbornly high unemployment, with over 6 million Americans without a job for 27 weeks or more, and two economists Tuesday highlighted the significant challenges in particular for older workers displaced by the “Great Recession.”

The Kobe Bryant of mediators will attempt to do something Tuesday that NBA owners and players have failed to accomplish in more than two years of negotiating.

People who have more Facebook friends have more gray matter in their brains, a finding that may spur further research on the relationship between social networking and the mind, U.K. researchers said.

Some of the toughest problems facing the healthcare industry today cannot be tackled on the front lines of patient care. Nurses and physicians cannot solve such problems at the bedsides of patients. Instead, as a Northeastern University professor contends, systems engineers can solve these complex healthcare problems using computers.

There is again talk of raising the state gas tax to address the dramatic under-funding of transportation infrastructure. But even when a road network is fully supported by the fuel tax, there is still a disconnect in most motorists’ minds between what they pay and the act of driving.

Toughening the U.S.-backed sanctions imposed on the Central Bank of Iran (Bank Markazi) will paralyze the country’s economy and the oil sector in particular, U.S. Northeastern University Professor Kamran Dadkhah believes.