Researchers at Northeastern University received a $2.3 million federal grant for a project to develop electric power transmission grids to help minimize blackout rates and improve energy efficiency in bulk power, according to a news release issued by university officials.

Real licorice, which is in black licorice candy, is made from the roots of the licorice plant, which can also be spelled liquorice.

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke hinted yesterday that more stimulus — from the federal government, not the Fed — may be necessary to turn the economy around.

For nearly 50 years, the powerful words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’€™s “I Have a Dream” have been quoted all over the world. But too few people know or remember the central metaphor that made up the first half of Dr. King’s speech: the bounced check America had written to its Black and poor […]

What is it about dwarfs? It has long since become unacceptable, at least in public, to belittle ethnic and religious minorities, gays and lesbians, and people with disabilities. Yet dwarfs remain figures of fun, and those who demean them are rarely held to account. As the father of a teenage daughter with dwarfism, I find […]

In the past few weeks alone, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Cisco Systems and Borders have all announced massive layoffs. Borders is closing its retail stores, auctioning off its holdings and letting go 10,000 employees as, due to online competition, the company is no longer profitable and filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. In contrast, […]

The Department of Homeland Security announced plans this week to review 300,000 pending deportation cases in federal immigration courts to determine which individuals meet specific criteria for removal and to focus on “our highest priorities.”

As a criminologist, I was drawn to the interactive map of this year’s Boston homicides that was featured in boston.com earlier this month. The concentration of murders in the city’€™s poorest neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan is obvious yet hardly surprising. These areas of the city have long been “hot spots” for violence.

Can violence by sports fans be addressed by legislation?

Panicked investors are taking money out of the stock market and putting it into another recently distressed investment — real estate.

Many were surprised to learn that an earthquake that occurred in Virginia could be felt as far north as Toronto and as far south as North Carolina.