Jim Bob Duggar may have fired up Rick Santorum during last week’€™s Iowa caucuses, but the Republican presidential candidates are steering clear of bringing more of Hollywood into their campaigns for now — and with good reason, experts say.

Many online and distance-learning students cite a reliable Internet connection as the most important—if not the only—thing they need to succeed. With a dizzying array of new and pricey digital toys being produced regularly, many online students swear by their iPads and iPhones. Others say online education should be user friendly and low tech.

The physicist Caesar Hidalgo is not a late-night TV host, but he plays one on the Internet.

Dismantling urban freeways – €”replacing elevated viaducts of steel and concrete with parks and boulevards – €”is happening in so many places, it’€™s like an unspoken national urban policy. We’ve reached a unique point in city-building when the destruction of a public works project has all the glamour and buzz of breaking ground on a […]

Looking for young adults in the workplace? Look no further than hotels, bars, restaurants and their own startups.

Having emerged unbloodied Sunday morning from the weekend’s debate double-header, Mitt Romney barreled down Route 101 at more than 80 miles an hour towards a noon rally at the Rochester Opera House.

The first member of the Kennedy clan’€™s so-called fourth generation is inching closer to running for Congress – a place where his family had served almost continuously for more than six decades until last year.

Saturday night and Sunday morning. Two back-to-back Republican presidential debates featuring the same cast, the same issues, the same New Hampshire setting, and the same basic format. Yet despite a separation of only 10 hours, the events felt as different as night and day.

A team of Northeastern University researchers is working to develop a new device to measure the effectiveness of pricey skin-lightening products and ultimately help detect skin cancer.

Do (high-frequency) activist hedge funds have higher returns? At the 2012 Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) conference in Chicago, Nicole Boyson (Northeastern University) and Robert Mooradian (Northeastern University) presented the paper, “The Skill of Frequent Hedge Fund Activists”.

Massachusetts cannot bar legal immigrants from a state health care program, according to a ruling issued Thursday by the state’€™s highest court, a decision that edges the state closer to its goal of providing near-universal health care coverage to its residents.

Uncle Sam used to reach into his deep pockets to pay for programs to keep teens off the streets in the summer and instead get some work experience. But, with federal budget cutting the norm, those days are over. So, on Thursday, the White House kicked off its efforts to encourage the private sector to […]