Columbus Day is a national holiday, celebrated with parades and songs. While most Americans know that Columbus sailed the ocean blue, many of the facts surrounding the voyage remain misunderstood. Guest host Tony Cox speaks with historian William Fowler to set the record straight on some of the popular myths surrounding Christopher Columbus and his […]

This is the place where computer software will turn faces into remote controls used to fly helicopters.

Nearly $33 billion in 117 million accounts. That is how much money is currently held by state treasurers and other agencies and awaiting someone to claim it, according to the National Association of Unclaimed Property Administrators (NAUPA).

A month ago, Texas Gov. Rick Perry led Mitt Romney, 29 percent to 18 percent, in the RealClearPolitics.com average of five recent presidential polls.

A few weeks into fall, flowers are still abloom in several plots at the Fenway Victory Gardens. At the Special Needs garden between rows G and H, tomatoes and peppers hang from vines that are flourishing in newly-constructed, raised flower beds, thanks to the work of a group of Northeastern University engineering students.

A recent rise in reports of anti-Semitism in Massachusetts suggests the Internet may be fueling a new and growing breed of hate crime, the Anti-Defamation League says.

Logistics companies experienced improved economic conditions in 2010, with 88 percent of companies surveyed in North America meeting or exceeding their revenue projections, as compared with only 50 percent in 2009, according to the 18th Annual Survey of Third-Party Logistics Providers sponsored by Penske Logistics.

The reality of the 2010 poverty data shows that Millennials are among the most highly affected—in the short term and long term—by public policy’s failure to protect America’s future generations. Data shows that the unemployment rate for people between the ages of 16 and 24 was an astonishing 18.4 percent in 2010. The number of […]

Millions of dollars may be being misspent on threat-detection methods that rely on facial expression recognition, according to a report this month by a noted Canadian researcher.

The Taliban have been forced out of power, Osama bin Laden is dead, and al Qaeda, by many accounts, is not nearly as powerful as it once was.

Looking to improve access for its global student body, Northeastern University College of Business Administration was willing to undergo the hardships of being a beta partner to get the mobile-optimized site it wanted.

A psychologist of Northeastern University and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard School of Medicine, Lisa Feldman Barrett, notified: “Humans are exquisitely sensitive to context, and that can vary dramatically shape what is seen in a face”.